Toronto FC coach John Herdman departed Canada's national men's team in August 2023 to take charge of the Canadian MLS club.
In sport, we see coaches commit errors, flagrant missteps, and continue to work and move to the next club or team. In the case of the Canadian national women's soccer team drone-spying scandal, Shireen Ahmed writes that one person whose proximity to accountability remains a huge question mark is the team's former coach John Herdman.Toronto FC coach John Herdman departed Canada's national men's team in August 2023 to take charge of the Canadian MLS club.
See former CSA CEO Nick Bontis who, despite leaving CSA in shambles, went on to work with another former CSA executive Victor Montagliani at CONCACAF, a regional division of FIFA. An investigative report from Radio-Canada published earlier this month details the ways in which Herdman and subsequent national program coaches were "" with getting intel on other teams in order to gain an advantage. We know what the fallout was, and we know how terribly it affected the players.
They continued to coach together, with Herdman mentoring the younger aspiring Priestman. Hindsight is 20-20 but now we know that everything achieved may not have been done with the best and most ethical methods. Quite often, the impact of said decisions and dishonesty are not fully understood until after the dust settles.
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