The Canadian ladies’s football group, who gold won at Tokyo 2020, haveactually been removed of 6 points by FIFA, while coach Bev Priestman is prohibited from all football for one year.
Published On 27 Jul 2024
FIFA deducted 6 points from Canada in the Paris Olympics ladies’s football competition and prohibited 3 coaches for one year each in a drone spying scandal.
The spectacular swath of penalties, revealed late on Saturday, consistsof a 200,000-Swiss-franc ($226,000) fine for the Canadian football federation in a case that has spiralled at the Summer Games.
Two assistant coaches were captured utilizing drones to spy on challenger New Zealand’s practices before their opening videogame on Wednesday.
Head coach Bev Priestman, who led Canada to the Olympic title in Tokyo in 2021, currently was suspended by the nationwide football federation and then eliminated from the Olympic competition. She is now prohibited from all football by FIFA for one year.
FIFA fast-tracked its own disciplinary procedure by asking its appeals judges to manage the case.
The judges discovered Priestman and her 2 assistants “were each discovered accountable for offensive behaviour and infraction of the concepts of reasonable play.”
The Canadian federation was held accountable for not guaranteeing its personnel complied with competition guidelines.
The coaches and the Canadian federation can difficulty their sanctions at the Court of Arbitration for Sport’s (CAS) unique Olympic court in Paris. That tribunal is set up for immediate hearings and decisions at the Olympics.
The 38-year-old Priestman
