{"id":63581,"date":"2024-08-03T07:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=63581"},"modified":"2024-08-03T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T07:42:32","slug":"fifa-documents-reveal-canadas-soccer-team-coachs-level-of-complicity-in-spying-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=63581","title":{"rendered":"FIFA documents reveal Canada\u2019s soccer team coach\u2019s level of complicity in spying scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K9OA07liapo?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>According to a damning report from FIFA\u2019s Appeals Committee, documents show that Bev Priestman and current Toronto FC manager John Herdman were at the heart of the spying scandal.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the game\u2019s international governing body revealed the evidence that led to the sanctions against the women\u2019s squad and its head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The FIFA document shows that Canada Soccer suspects\u2019 spying practice began with Herdman, who served as head coach of the women\u2019s national team before Priestman took over.<\/p>\n<p>The documents also show an email exchange between Priestman and a performance analyst, who objected to the practice.<\/p>\n<p>During the correspondence, Priestman responded by explaining the practice of drone spying as being \u201cwidespread\u201d and pointed to the men\u2019s national team, alleging they do it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Court of Arbitration for Sport has dismissed Canada Soccer\u2019s appeal against the punishment imposed on the Canadian women\u2019s team at the Paris Olympics for the organization\u2019s drone-spying.<\/p>\n<p>Priestman and two other employees were handed one-year suspensions over the scandal, and Canada Soccer maintains that the federation did not facilitate the spying.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K9OA07liapo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a damning report from FIFA\u2019s Appeals Committee, documents show that Bev Priestman and current Toronto FC manager John Herdman were at the heart of the spying scandal. On&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3188,"featured_media":63582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}