The Leeds United ‘spygate’ saga was one of many tales of the 2018/19 season in English soccer.
The incident noticed the previous Whites head coach admit that his workers had spied on their opponents all season after a member of his backroom workers was noticed exterior the Derby County coaching floor earlier than the 2 sides had been as a consequence of meet within the Championship.
This led to Bielsa holding a exceptional press convention the place he defined precisely why he had achieved it and went via his complete pre-match evaluation routine in breathtaking element.
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Bielsa would finish the press convention by finally admitting that he solely did it ‘as a result of I feel I am silly’, however it could seem that these techniques have been in play on the Olympic Video games.
The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) introduced on Tuesday that an assistant girls’s soccer coach and an analyst had been despatched residence following accusations that that they had spied on an opponent.
This got here after the New Zealand workforce mentioned {that a} drone had been noticed overhead throughout a coaching session on Tuesday, and that it had been operated by a workers member from the Canada girls’s aspect.
Canada coach Bev Priestman (Picture credit score: Getty)
“Group assist members instantly reported the incident to police, resulting in the drone operator, who has been recognized as a assist workers member of the broader Canadian Girls’s soccer workforce, to be detained,” the New Zealand Olympic Committee mentioned in a press release.
The COC confirmed that drones had twice been used forward of the 2 sides’ opening match on Thursday and that assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi had been despatched residence.
Canada head coach Bev Priestman, who led her aspect to the gold medal on the final Olympic Video games in Tokyo, is not going to coach Thursday recreation and the workforce’s workers will all endure necessary ethics coaching.
“The Canadian Olympic Committee stands for fair-play and we’re shocked and disillusioned,’’ the committee mentioned in a press release. “We provide our heartfelt apologies to New Zealand Soccer, to all of the gamers affected and to the New Zealand Olympic Committee.’’
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