Beverly Priestman, a former Canada women’s coach, claims that after receiving a one-year ban for spieing on the 2024 Olympics, she felt uneasy about staying in the country.
On Wednesday, the 39-year-old was appointed Wellington Phoenix’s head coach in New Zealand.
Following a spying scandal at the Paris 2012 games last summer, Priestman has only been in one role since she was banned from football for a year by Fifa.
After a drone was used to spy on a training session by their opening group-stage match, England-born Priestman and two other Canadian employees were barred.
Prior to the ban, Priestman was fired as Canada Soccer’s head coach after being exposed of previous “pre-Olympic” drone use against opponents.
That’s being incredibly honest, I suppose. My family and I had to deal with that because it was so difficult.
It’s obvious that there was a total media frenzy. I have a little boy and you have people knocking at your door and everything. It was very challenging without going into too much detail. We were aware of the necessity to leave that nation.
After pleading guilty to using a drone without a license to fly in an urban area, Priestman received an eight-month suspended jail sentence.
Canada made it out of the Olympic group stages despite being given six points for the incident despite her absence.
In the quarter-finals, Germany beat them on penalties.
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Source: BBC
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