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At the moment we are trying to directly address what appears to look like it could be a systemic ethical shortcoming, in a way that’s frankly, unfortunately painful right now, but is turning out to be a necessary part of the rehabilitation process,
Blue said on Friday in a conference call with reporters I am aware of an instance of attempted drone usage at the Copa America,
CSA was found responsible for failing to respect the applicable Fifa regulations in connection with its failure to ensure the compliance of its participating officials of the OFT with the prohibition on flying drones over any training sites,
There appears to be information that could tarnish that Olympic performance in Tokyo,
he said at a press conference It's unfortunate that the players from our national team have had to play through condemnable actions by some of their staff as they attempt to defend our gold medal,
Sinclair, soccer's all-time leading international scorer, wrote on Instagram We feel terrible for the athletes on the Canadian women’s Olympic soccer team who as far as we understand played no role in this matter,
COC CEO David Shoemaker said Canada Soccer took swift action to suspend the implicated staff members and is also proceeding with a broad independent review that may lead to further disciplinary action.”
Blue used this same argument again in his statement on Saturday Specifically, we do not feel that a deduction of points in this tournament would be fair to our players, particularly in light of the significant and immediate steps we’ve taken to address the situation,
They suspected it was Canada,
said a CONCACAF spokesman It wasn't a very big crowd at the end of the day but I'm going to tell you what when we went out on the field, it was 100 per cent Canadian and they actually put us ahead a goal before the game began,
I am in no doubt that FIFA and the Chinese police know who the two men are,
Allan Hansen, chairman of the Danish soccer federation, DUB, was quoted as telling the Danish newspaper Politiken at the time The truth is it has gone on forever and I have seen it all,
said a former Canadian men's team coach The other team had no idea where they were,
I do expect that the scope of our review will include ... an attempt to understand the history of the issue and to the extent that involves our previous employees or previous coaching staff, then certainly that will be a part of it as we try to understand the totality of the issue."
Asked in an earlier virtual availability Friday about possible similar misbehaviour during Herdman's tenure as coach, Blue said I've always gone into Olympic Games, World Cups, big events, with integrity in mind and the ability to compete at the highest level, following the rules and processes,
he said after TFC's training session Friday I'm highly confident that in my time as a head coach at an Olympic Games or World Cup, we've never been involved in any of those activities,
I’ve seen some of the information they have and we gathered some additional information ourselves that made me conclude that she [Priestman] was highly likely to have been aware of the incidents here.”
Damningly, Shoemaker said on Friday They gave me reasons to think further about the potential that this behavior was systemic,
Upon gathering more information from that review, that will be an additional opportunity to see what steps additionally need to be taken, if any,
I'm hopeful that with the decision that we made last night, that following the press conference today, we can move forward and allow the the focus to be on the players in the competition for the remainder of the Olympics, so that the players have the opportunity to really be focused on the competition during the time of the Olympic games,