Organization’s CEO says the drone spying was a symptom of a past pattern of ‘unacceptable culture’ within the national governing body
Canada Soccer says it expects to share the findings of an independent review into the drone-spying scandal that overshadowed last summer’s Paris Olympics within the next week.
was “a symptom of a past pattern of an unacceptable culture and insufficient oversight within the national teams.” Three Canada Soccer officials were sent home from the Games in July, after French police tracked a drone hovering over the practice of the New Zealand women’s team.
Four other current and former staffers with Canada Soccer detailed in interviews with The Globe what they allege had become an accepted practice at the taxpayer-funded organization: The program dispatched staff to gather surveillance on competitors at closed-door practices and scrimmages for the purposes of gathering intelligence on their game plans. The Globe is not identifying the sources because they feared professional repercussions for speaking out about the alleged practice.
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