{"id":63699,"date":"2024-08-03T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=63699"},"modified":"2024-08-03T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:11:26","slug":"canadian-soccer-coach-to-miss-olympic-opener-others-sent-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=63699","title":{"rendered":"Canadian soccer coach to miss Olympic opener, others sent home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2uW5WfgH84?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Canada\u2019s Olympic women\u2019s soccer team has been dealt a blow just as play is set to start at the Paris games.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Olympic Committee has released a statement regarding two drone incidents involving the team, one in Saint-\u00c9tienne and the other at a New Zealand practice.<\/p>\n<p>The committee has imposed sanctions and consequences to several team members and staffers.<\/p>\n<p>An unaccredited analyst with Canada Soccer, Joseph Lombardi, has been removed from the team and will be sent home immediately. It\u2019s alleged he was using a drone equipped with a camera to record the New Zealand women\u2019s football team during practice.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Jasmine Mander is also being sent home.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Bev Priestman has removed herself from coaching tomorrow\u2019s opening game against New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of our entire team, I first and foremost want to apologize to the players and staff at New Zealand Football and to the players on Team Canada,\u201d Preistman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis does not represent the values that our team stands for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The committee says staff will undergo mandatory ethics training.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T2uW5WfgH84\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Olympic women\u2019s soccer team has been dealt a blow just as play is set to start at the Paris games. The Canadian Olympic Committee has released a statement regarding&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3188,"featured_media":63700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63699","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\/63699","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=63699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}