The New Zealand Football Federation stated that it was determined FIFA Disciplinary Committee the case of espionage its women’s team suffered by an unrecognized member of the Canadian team during training before the start of Paris 2024 Games.
A member of the Canadian Olympic team was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in jail, though no jail time, after being caught spying on the Canadian women’s soccer team with a drone. New Zealand.
The 43-year-old man was arrested on Monday after police patrolling the stadium Auguste-Dury from the city of Saint Etienne (it) was warned about the presence of a stationary drone on the field of play, local network station France Bleu reported.
The prosecutor of Saint Etienne, David Charmatz, explained that the drone analysis showed that, in addition to recording the New Zealanders on Monday, it was also done two days earlier in another stadium in the area. The sentence also includes confiscation of the drone.
The convicted person is a technical analyst, a member of the Canadian team but without official accreditation for Olympic Games in Paris. He Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) in a statement that the convicted man, Joseph Lombardi“will be sent to Canada immediately,” as well as the team’s assistant coach, Jasmine Manderfor whom the former worked.
“We noticed that there are some decisions of Canadian National Olympic Committee and they took their own penalties against the Canadian team; However, considering the seriousness of the situation and the possible implications for the sporting integrity of the entire tournament, we have referred the matter to FIFA Disciplinary Committee for urgent steps to be taken,” the executive director of the New Zealand federation said in a statement, Andrew Pragnell.
The leader indicated that “there is no place for this type of action in football and it is important that urgent steps are taken to address this breach of integrity.”
“To hear that the Canadian team filmed covert footage of our training at least twice is incredibly disturbing and, if not addressed urgently, could have wider implications for integrity of the tournament,” he added.
Canadacurrent Olympic champion, and New Zealand They face each other this Thursday in a match on the first day of group A of the women’s soccer tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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