{"id":485703,"date":"2024-07-27T20:07:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T00:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485703"},"modified":"2024-07-27T20:07:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T00:07:25","slug":"canada-loses-6-points-manager-banned-over-spy-scandal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canada-loses-6-points-manager-banned-over-spy-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada loses 6 points, manager banned over spy scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada women&#8217;s soccer boss Pev Priestman has been banned from coaching for 1 year, and the Canadian team has been docked 6 points during the Olympics, FIFA revealed today after investigating charges that staff members of the North American country used a drone to spy on an opponent&#8217;s closed training last week.<\/p>\n<p>The penalties are huge. For the Canadian team, which is here to defend the gold medal it won at the last Olympics in Tokyo, a 6-point deduction will make it almost impossible to advance to the elimination phase, while Priestman &#8211; who coached as an assistant under Phil Neville with England&#8217;s women&#8217;s national team before taking over the Canadian position 4 years ago \u2013 is banned in taking part in any football-related activity for a calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian head coach 2 assistants implicated in the case were also suspended from all football activities for the same period of time like Priestman.<\/p>\n<p>Canada Soccer shared that they will try to appeal the docked points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8| The Canada Women&#39;s team has been handed a six-point DEDUCTION in the Olympic football tournament for using drones to spy on opposition teams \ud83d\ude33\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6<\/p>\n<p>FIFA has BANNED the head coach of the Canada women&#39;s football team, Bev Priestman, and two other officials for a year and fined\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VwzPoFkf2Y\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VwzPoFkf2Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CentreGoals. (@centregoals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centregoals\/status\/1817260391149211799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada women&#8217;s soccer boss Pev Priestman has been banned from coaching for 1 year, and the Canadian team has been docked 6 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485704,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,16943],"news_category":[14235],"gn_keywords":[18357,19551],"acf":{"announce":"The North American country docked 6 points for drone use.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485705,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485703\/revisions\/485705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485703"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485703"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}