Canada Soccer says Olympics drone probe shows past ‘unacceptable culture’

Canada Soccer says an autarkic reappraisal has confirmed that the Paris Olympics drone-spying scandal was not an isolated misstep.

Canada Soccer CEO Kevin Blue says the spying “was a grounds of a past signifier of an unacceptable civilization and insufficient oversight wrong the nationalist teams.”

Canada Soccer announced July 31 that it had retained Sonia Regenbogen from the instrumentality steadfast of Mathews, Dinsdale & Clark to grip the reappraisal of the Olympic incidental “and subsequently, immoderate related matters of a historical nature.”

The governing assemblage has the papers successful manus but has yet to merchandise it, saying it is reviewing the study and its conclusions. In a abbreviated statement, Blue said helium expects to merchandise “key conclusions and adjacent steps wrong a week.” ​ ​

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Canada women’s manager Bev Priestman, adjunct manager Jasmine Mander and expert Joseph Lombardi are serving one-year FIFA suspensions successful the aftermath of New Zealand’s Olympic Committee filing a ailment with the International Olympic Committee’s integrity unit, alleging drones were flown implicit a brace of pre-tournament signifier sessions.

Canada managed to scope the Olympic knockout circular contempt being docked six points for the spying ungraded which besides saw Canada Soccer fined 200,000 Swiss francs ($317,660).

The defending champion Canadians, presently ranked sixth successful the world, were eliminated successful the quarterfinals by No. 4 Germany successful a punishment shootout.