WTF were they thinking? Seriously! The risk/reward on this makes no sense. Just play your own game! I am pissed and disappointed. Dealing with the CSA directly, I can tell you there are is lot of incompetence at the administrative level, but didn't think the coaching staff would be this daft.
This happens a lot in soccer. It’s just they got caught many countries do this. They don’t think they spy on tactics and strategies. It’s just this team was stupid.
They're not good enough to win without cheating. If Canada wasn't a Western country they would have been stripped of their previous gold medal and their football team would have been kicked out of the Olympics.
@@tfc92221 oh I know of the tactics. I have been part of the game at the amateur national level as a player and a referee. They are all given strict guidelines and to do this at a tournament event is really really unprofessional. This was a high risk/low reward situation.
Canada can't win without cheating. Glad to see their gold medal and copa semis exposed for the frauds they are. Should have the 2026 world cup stripped from them as well,
Beyond disappointed and embarrassed as a Canadian. So sorry to any nation affected by this. I promise that this is not a representation of Canada. Shame on Canada Soccer. Seriously.....I am beyond ashamed
Perhaps if enough sponsors of Canada Soccer demand changes be made so that never again is there anything like Dronegate, the governing body of Canadian soccer will have little choice but to have to make drastic changes to how it operates. Hockey Canada in 2022 lost a bunch of sponsors after a major sexual assault scandal had come to light, giving me hope that the power of lost sponsorships, if necessary, will finally motivate Canada Soccer to do what it should’ve done years ago.
No it is not embarrassing!!!!! Wake up!!!! Everything for the victory!!!!! There is no pink ponies world out there!!!! Go Canada!!!! I am proud for my nation!!!! All the respect in the world for coach!!!!!
@@rostyslavkozhushko5841 I congratulate the athletes who'd agreed to play for Canada's adult women's soccer team during the relevant Olympic tourney but my goodness is the rot deep within Canada Soccer. TBD will be who will be punished for such rot.
Bollocks. Shouldn't an investigative journalist actually break the story? And do so much sooner than this? If it's been going on for years, either he's been complicit in covering it up or he wasn't investigating until it was convenient to do so.
Canada's women soccer team should be sent home from the olympics since they have done this years before until this is cleared up on way or another. This cannot be tolerated.
The big question is whether players were shown any of these drone footages or screenshots to study and if so then canada need to immediately withdraw from the olympics until there's new coaching staff
There's no way they aren't using the information. If Canada tries to claim it was just 2 rogue staffers and they didn't share the footage, it'll be the biggest Canadian lie since the time they claimed nothing heinous was going on in the residential schools.
Didn’t a coach when asked about it give the excuse “a lot of Canadians fly drones” at the time of that? Real dumb excuse, especially looking at it now.
@asapaul7671 Yes true. It sucks that this will taint all the achievements. If you think about it. It gives the coaches an advantage. In soccer, it helps when you know what formation you will be facing 352 or 442. Is an advantage if you know and you prepare for it.
wouldn't be surprised if FIFA bans Canada from participating in the next world cup... I mean if this has been going on for years then neither the men's nor the women's teams actually won a game without cheating and our opponents have an obvious grievance.
So why did Westhead only do this story AFTER the news broke? In fact, why didn't sports journalists break the story years ago? I suspect that they turn a blind eye for their own convenience. That's fine, but just don't praise them for piling on when they've basically been complicit for years.
What? Seriously? Canada? Canadians ARE NOT CHEATERS! Who are these women? And flying a drone over an Olympic venue with all this terrorism threats, what the hell were they thinking??? And this has been going on for years??????? Canadians? I am ashamed and embarrassed for all Canadians. We don't cheat, who these "athletes" are is beyond me. SHAMEFUL, I hope they get the toughest penalty applied to them. We should make them examples, sorry but this is shameful to say the very least.
@@johnlee3339 Apparently, this is what was said in the video! Though I have never heard of anything like this, not ever so if it has been, why is this the first we are hearing about it? I can't believe it but yeah, that's what they said, since 2019! WTF? And yet I have never heard of Canada cheating in the Olympics! Well ok, there are I believe five records of Canadians involved in doping scandals but those were years ago and for the most part, they were not performance enhancing drugs. There was a snowboarder that tested positive for THC but weed is part of the culture in snowboarding, idiot but he was young. There was another that had a flu and tested positive for something but again, she was taking meds cause she was sick and didn't realize. Most Canadians were caught for other similar issues but outright spying and CHEATING purposely, none that I can recall. This is just shameful and that's a weak description of how I feel about this. Like that idiot American female basketball player trying to smuggle THC in the form of a Vape pen into Russia, how STUPID can you possibly be. Drones in an Olympic venue, I have to say it again, STUPID.
Great reporting, and the stench from this isn't going away anytime soon. Canada WNT will probably be stripped of its Tokyo 2020 gold medal, out of Paris 2024, Priestman fired, ....
I do care if there are women in practice stadiums were dressed naked, spying is a serious offense. And its unacceptable Canada soccer team should be banned from the Olympics. Drone spying should never happen again. It makes me ashamed of being a Canadian these days.
Kind a disappointed with Rick on this. Don’t feel this is a huge deal. We can’t be the only country that does this. I get it that it’s wrong and we shouldn’t do this but really? After copa and the joke that is and marsch saying how biased the refs were and racist the teams were with no punishments, this seems pretty meaningless. I feel he could have looked more into the Stan bowman thing or gon look into the copa fiasco. I think it just makes us look stupid. Of teams know we are doing this, call us out earlier or just change tactics in game. Like we aren’t dominating the sport. Other than the gold medal, we have really won anything else convincingly where we looked to have a huge advantage. You can see the formations maybe or pks but formations have been around forever and pks you still have to save. We still screwed up games and blew leads. If this has been going on since 2011, I feel it could have been addressed earlier by fifa, concacaf or other federations if they actually cared. With how corrupt soccer is, I feel this is such a small thing. Hopefully they stop and hopefully this doesn’t hurt our program going forward. We still have good players and have improved. I don’t think drones are the reason we have gotten better as a nation. If so, then I would assume other teams and countries are doing this too. O find it hard to believe that we are the only nation that had the great idea to use drones to help our program.
To eliminate spying I would like to see the Summer Olympics Games moved to the Moon in 2028…Moon has the room and is more than willing to schedule accordingly.
Makes sense considering Canada ran residential schools until the 90's. If they weren't a friendly yt western country they would have had their gold medal stripped and their soccer team sent home from paris.
Might as well throw in the towel and forfeit the rest of the games.. and that's me as a supporter of the team..any achievements will have a big red asterisk
Lots of speculation here which is typical of a Westhead story. FIFA and the IOC will do their own investigations. Let's see how this plays out. We should not tarnish whole teams and players with a broad-brush without having all the facts!
FIFA awarded one year suspension of the womans coach and 6 minuspoints only for the drone incident at this Olympics, the people responsible for the Canadian Football Association are for sure shitting their pants right now because I think the punishment will be very hard, I wouldn´t be surprised if Canada is banned from the next two World Cups on both sides and maybe also at least one more olympic games in 2028
@@Pawhlen the next men's world cup 2026 is also in Canada. Together with USA and Mexico they are the host countries of the FIFA Men's Word Cup 2026. Would be no big surprise when the FIFA banned Canada as a host and play the Canada games in the USA and Mexico. For this 2 countries it will be not a big deal to host more games because they have more big stadiums and the infrastructure.
I mean let’s be honest. What advantage are you actually gaining from watching a practice? Especially at a tournament where you’re not really training hard or doing anything crazy. With the exception of some penalties or free kicks what can you be learning you can’t learn from watching tape on games? I played for the youth national team and pro over seas. Watching tape on a practice is wild. If you’re gonna cheat at least cheat on something worth it.
Lol. You remind me of every dummy Iv'e run into that says the usual "youre Canadian you play soccer I'm from (E.X. England or Chile or Tunisia or Croatia etc.) not knowing that every once in a while you run into someone who went to your country (if Example dummy is from England) from Canada on an invite to tryout for some of your professional Football teams, not terribly impassive and not quite good enough to make it pro in England especially a couple decades ago but can guarantee is better and knows more about this game then you ever will and would dangle you at soccer, fussball, voetball, calcio football, no matter what you want to call it. Love running into people like this in real life and get so annoyed to the point that if there's ball around by chance get to check their skills and they usually have the ball control and touch of a baby rhinoceros and cant play neither soccer or football and usually barely knows basic shit like what a high press is. Go rock your real madrid ronaldo jersey at some rec league game and lose your balance and trip and fall when you try and do 1 stepover. You suck.
considering how quickly this story is developing, this is great reporting on what’s looking to be a dark, devastating day for Canadian soccer fans
coach Herdman may be the link
Do you honestly believe Canada is the only country in the world doing this? Come on man.
@@redbaron8130 just like baseball. It only matter who gets caught.
@@redbaron8130 Here comes the delusional deflection and "everybody else cheats" justifications.
@@redbaron8130 Hello Ben Johnson ;)
WTF were they thinking? Seriously! The risk/reward on this makes no sense. Just play your own game! I am pissed and disappointed. Dealing with the CSA directly, I can tell you there are is lot of incompetence at the administrative level, but didn't think the coaching staff would be this daft.
This happens a lot in soccer. It’s just they got caught many countries do this. They don’t think they spy on tactics and strategies. It’s just this team was stupid.
They're not good enough to win without cheating. If Canada wasn't a Western country they would have been stripped of their previous gold medal and their football team would have been kicked out of the Olympics.
@@tfc92221 oh I know of the tactics. I have been part of the game at the amateur national level as a player and a referee. They are all given strict guidelines and to do this at a tournament event is really really unprofessional. This was a high risk/low reward situation.
Canada can't win without cheating. Glad to see their gold medal and copa semis exposed for the frauds they are. Should have the 2026 world cup stripped from them as well,
Canadian teams got so dependent and accustomed to cheating that they forgot how to train and play without it.
Beyond disappointed and embarrassed as a Canadian. So sorry to any nation affected by this. I promise that this is not a representation of Canada. Shame on Canada Soccer. Seriously.....I am beyond ashamed
Perhaps if enough sponsors of Canada Soccer demand changes be made so that never again is there anything like Dronegate, the governing body of Canadian soccer will have little choice but to have to make drastic changes to how it operates. Hockey Canada in 2022 lost a bunch of sponsors after a major sexual assault scandal had come to light, giving me hope that the power of lost sponsorships, if necessary, will finally motivate Canada Soccer to do what it should’ve done years ago.
Why down the whole country for a small group of ignorant assholes?
No it is not embarrassing!!!!! Wake up!!!! Everything for the victory!!!!! There is no pink ponies world out there!!!! Go Canada!!!! I am proud for my nation!!!! All the respect in the world for coach!!!!!
@@rostyslavkozhushko5841 Scum will always be SCUM.
@@rostyslavkozhushko5841 I congratulate the athletes who'd agreed to play for Canada's adult women's soccer team during the relevant Olympic tourney but my goodness is the rot deep within Canada Soccer. TBD will be who will be punished for such rot.
Rick with the top notch reporting per usual 👏👏👏
Bollocks. Shouldn't an investigative journalist actually break the story? And do so much sooner than this? If it's been going on for years, either he's been complicit in covering it up or he wasn't investigating until it was convenient to do so.
2:48 This is horrible: staffers fear reprisals; staffers are told to spy "if you want a place on this team." This is dark.
Canada's women soccer team should be sent home from the olympics since they have done this years before until this is cleared up on way or another. This cannot be tolerated.
They need to give back all of their medals as well.
Canada is a western country with close ties to the US. If this news came out about say, China, the US and Canadian media would be losing their minds.
Get a brain transplant. It makes no difference to outcomes. They can watch their opponents previous games FFS.
@@iainmore3961 exactly, buying drones and sneaking around like thieves is not worth if to anyone.
That makes us look so foolish.
We are known for being nice and fair this is wild. Can’t believe this happened and Canada of all countries.
The big question is whether players were shown any of these drone footages or screenshots to study and if so then canada need to immediately withdraw from the olympics until there's new coaching staff
There's no way they aren't using the information. If Canada tries to claim it was just 2 rogue staffers and they didn't share the footage, it'll be the biggest Canadian lie since the time they claimed nothing heinous was going on in the residential schools.
The Honduras men national team stopped a practice in Toronto after seeing a drone.
Didn’t a coach when asked about it give the excuse “a lot of Canadians fly drones” at the time of that? Real dumb excuse, especially looking at it now.
@asapaul7671 Yes true. It sucks that this will taint all the achievements.
If you think about it. It gives the coaches an advantage. In soccer, it helps when you know what formation you will be facing 352 or 442. Is an advantage if you know and you prepare for it.
Now it makes sense why Canada has improved over the years 🤦♀️
That takes away from the players but agree that both teams deserve to be punished for this disgraceful behavior.
Frauds in other words.
BS
The timing of this is pretty spectacular. Just as soccer Canada is getting to its feet.
They should strip Canada of their metals - from all games they spied on.
As a Canadian, this is embarrassing.
wouldn't be surprised if FIFA bans Canada from participating in the next world cup... I mean if this has been going on for years then neither the men's nor the women's teams actually won a game without cheating and our opponents have an obvious grievance.
FIFA is more corrupt then this. They took millions to have a World Cup in Qatar and Russia.
The soccer team had to withdraw from the Olympics immediately and bd brought home. Any win is tainted.
What would you expect? It's now obvious how Canadian soccer so "improved" in the past years... by cheating and spying.
Not answering is a direct YES.
So why did Westhead only do this story AFTER the news broke? In fact, why didn't sports journalists break the story years ago? I suspect that they turn a blind eye for their own convenience. That's fine, but just don't praise them for piling on when they've basically been complicit for years.
As a proud Canadian I’m so disgusted!
Most countries do this it’s just we got caught
I'm Canadian and this is deplorable and disgraceful for all Canadians!
Oh they gonna flood out of the woodwork now
Cheaters… the entire Canadian team should be sent home.
What? Seriously? Canada? Canadians ARE NOT CHEATERS! Who are these women? And flying a drone over an Olympic venue with all this terrorism threats, what the hell were they thinking??? And this has been going on for years??????? Canadians? I am ashamed and embarrassed for all Canadians. We don't cheat, who these "athletes" are is beyond me. SHAMEFUL, I hope they get the toughest penalty applied to them. We should make them examples, sorry but this is shameful to say the very least.
.... this has been going on for years???????
@@johnlee3339 Apparently, this is what was said in the video! Though I have never heard of anything like this, not ever so if it has been, why is this the first we are hearing about it? I can't believe it but yeah, that's what they said, since 2019! WTF? And yet I have never heard of Canada cheating in the Olympics! Well ok, there are I believe five records of Canadians involved in doping scandals but those were years ago and for the most part, they were not performance enhancing drugs. There was a snowboarder that tested positive for THC but weed is part of the culture in snowboarding, idiot but he was young. There was another that had a flu and tested positive for something but again, she was taking meds cause she was sick and didn't realize. Most Canadians were caught for other similar issues but outright spying and CHEATING purposely, none that I can recall. This is just shameful and that's a weak description of how I feel about this. Like that idiot American female basketball player trying to smuggle THC in the form of a Vape pen into Russia, how STUPID can you possibly be. Drones in an Olympic venue, I have to say it again, STUPID.
How real is the risk of our WNT losing its three points from the first-match victory against NZ?
Canada can’t be the only one doing this.
Call up Christine Saint Clair. And give her the coaching job.
Great reporting, and the stench from this isn't going away anytime soon. Canada WNT will probably be stripped of its Tokyo 2020 gold medal, out of Paris 2024, Priestman fired, ....
if you dont think other teams did this you need your head examined.
Doesnt make it right. Cheaters….
Here comes the classic whataboutism and saying "everyone else does it" 🤣
Scum is SCUM.
Not really. Teams study opponents past recent games.
I do care if there are women in practice stadiums were dressed naked, spying is a serious offense. And its unacceptable Canada soccer team should be banned from the Olympics. Drone spying should never happen again. It makes me ashamed of being a Canadian these days.
How are you dressed naked ?
This is nothing new. Now imagine if they were really cheating like... paying refs and fixing games.
Most countries or a lot of countries do this just Canada we got caught and were too honest to tell on ourselves
Yeah 💯 Canadians are beyond pathetic
Just simple easy question: who pays the fine? Coaches or football committee/Canadian tax players?
Kind a disappointed with Rick on this. Don’t feel this is a huge deal. We can’t be the only country that does this. I get it that it’s wrong and we shouldn’t do this but really? After copa and the joke that is and marsch saying how biased the refs were and racist the teams were with no punishments, this seems pretty meaningless. I feel he could have looked more into the Stan bowman thing or gon look into the copa fiasco. I think it just makes us look stupid. Of teams know we are doing this, call us out earlier or just change tactics in game. Like we aren’t dominating the sport. Other than the gold medal, we have really won anything else convincingly where we looked to have a huge advantage. You can see the formations maybe or pks but formations have been around forever and pks you still have to save. We still screwed up games and blew leads. If this has been going on since 2011, I feel it could have been addressed earlier by fifa, concacaf or other federations if they actually cared. With how corrupt soccer is, I feel this is such a small thing. Hopefully they stop and hopefully this doesn’t hurt our program going forward. We still have good players and have improved. I don’t think drones are the reason we have gotten better as a nation. If so, then I would assume other teams and countries are doing this too. O find it hard to believe that we are the only nation that had the great idea to use drones to help our program.
he's the John Stossel of canada
We're finally learning to play like south americans lets go
they all do it
We finally learned to cheat like north americans. lets go!
PUNK. U will NEVER be able to play better.
No other country would say or report against there country,hopefully you know the truth
They need to lose their 2021 Olympic gold medal as well. Now we know why they were so good and won.
Don't comment on things you know nothing about
Disqualify Canada from all events at this Olympiad.
To eliminate spying I would like to see the Summer Olympics Games moved to the Moon in 2028…Moon has the room and is more than willing to schedule accordingly.
Makes sense considering Canada ran residential schools until the 90's. If they weren't a friendly yt western country they would have had their gold medal stripped and their soccer team sent home from paris.
What does this have anything to do with residential schools
@@PicklEmpire Fr
@@PicklEmpire willing to commit crimes against humanity = no qualms about cheating in soccer.
I can’t wait for the truth come out. Soccer is a beautiful game but the Canadians are but a red stain on the game. Thank god for karma.
Might as well throw in the towel and forfeit the rest of the games.. and that's me as a supporter of the team..any achievements will have a big red asterisk
Sounds more like working after hours lolol
After Copa America everything's a go
Much support from 🇺🇸
World cup is going to he wild
Canada Soccer: The Houston Astros and New England Patriots of Soccer when it comes to cheating.
What’s with spying and drones , what’s that supposed to do. They need skills not videos lol
Omg the West doesn't disappoint a day after day
Don’t worry about Canadian drones.
It’s the Ukrainian ones you gotta worry about.
Lots of speculation here which is typical of a Westhead story. FIFA and the IOC will do their own investigations. Let's see how this plays out. We should not tarnish whole teams and players with a broad-brush without having all the facts!
FIFA awarded one year suspension of the womans coach and 6 minuspoints only for the drone incident at this Olympics, the people responsible for the Canadian Football Association are for sure shitting their pants right now because I think the punishment will be very hard, I wouldn´t be surprised if Canada is banned from the next two World Cups on both sides and maybe also at least one more olympic games in 2028
@@Pawhlen the next men's world cup 2026 is also in Canada. Together with USA and Mexico they are the host countries of the FIFA Men's Word Cup 2026. Would be no big surprise when the FIFA banned Canada as a host and play the Canada games in the USA and Mexico. For this 2 countries it will be not a big deal to host more games because they have more big stadiums and the infrastructure.
What all of Canada's soccer team 😱😱😱 one or two filmed but everyone benefited. It's a team effort 😂
I mean let’s be honest. What advantage are you actually gaining from watching a practice? Especially at a tournament where you’re not really training hard or doing anything crazy. With the exception of some penalties or free kicks what can you be learning you can’t learn from watching tape on games? I played for the youth national team and pro over seas. Watching tape on a practice is wild. If you’re gonna cheat at least cheat on something worth it.
What youth national team team did you play for u17s? What year?
So this is how they have been winning any games over the past 8 years. Disgusting. Stick to hockey or curling.
Lol. You remind me of every dummy Iv'e run into that says the usual "youre Canadian you play soccer I'm from (E.X. England or Chile or Tunisia or Croatia etc.) not knowing that every once in a while you run into someone who went to your country (if Example dummy is from England) from Canada on an invite to tryout for some of your professional Football teams, not terribly impassive and not quite good enough to make it pro in England especially a couple decades ago but can guarantee is better and knows more about this game then you ever will and would dangle you at soccer, fussball, voetball, calcio football, no matter what you want to call it. Love running into people like this in real life and get so annoyed to the point that if there's ball around by chance get to check their skills and they usually have the ball control and touch of a baby rhinoceros and cant play neither soccer or football and usually barely knows basic shit like what a high press is. Go rock your real madrid ronaldo jersey at some rec league game and lose your balance and trip and fall when you try and do 1 stepover. You suck.
a whole lotta nothing. This is no surprise. Nobody thinks this is anything this is just trying to make news. Dumb
SCUM is dumb.
Westhead is a fking joke
Cheaters
Russia look Good now
Lol who cares, every team does it. More Canadian basketball content please.
Loser
All teams do this. Secondly, Tom brady invented this.
Serial killers kill sooooooooooo ?????
Then they should face the consequences for being stupid enough to get caught.