2024-07-30 01:11:38
Incredible stories involving Real Madrid and PSG.
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2024. Canada and drone espionage
Canadians are stereotypically good guys and gals. That’s the irony of the drone scandal. The Canadian women’s team, the London Olympic champions, went for a trick. Drones can be useful not only – delivering groceries and helping to find lost children, but also dangerous when they become weapons. Or a tool for espionage. The coach of the Canadian women’s team Beverly Priestman was disqualified for a year along with assistant Jasmine Mander and analyst Joseph Lombardi. They came up with the idea of spying on the New Zealand team’s training. An experienced drone operator can be kilometers from the surveillance site – you will never catch him, and the Canadians were detained by the police. They were given minus six points. The Olympics are over for the team, although they beat New Zealand 2:1 on the football field. By the way, did the Canadian men’s team use drones at the America’s Cup? Sensationally reached the semi-finals. On the other hand, drones can help you understand your opponent, but you yourself need to play well to move on.
2019. Bielsa confesses to surveillance
Human rights activists often have a “dark side”. Pastor Martin Luther King could not pass by a woman’s skirt. Coach Bielsa, who rightly scolded football officials at the Copa America, resorted to a series of tricks during his time at Leeds. Marcelo’s agents monitored opponents’ training sessions. Nowadays, many assistant coaches have joysticks with screens in their hands. Drones monitor training sessions to spot tactical nuances live, not after training. Bielsa thought that it was necessary to flood other people’s bases with spies. Marcelo confessed when representatives of Lampard’s Derby contacted the police. The Argentine violated the rules of “fair play”, but his Leeds later received the FIFA award of the same name. Bielsa was fined €200,000 for spying, but the coach watches dozens of matches of each opponent, and does not try to read someone else’s game from the retelling of spies and drone videos. Marcelo analyzed 51 Derby matches before the match against Lampard. Bielsa has never hidden his training from his opponents. And at home in Argentina, he is used to everyone spying on everyone else.
2018. Benfica hacked Porto
Not on the field, but in the virtual world. Hackers are everywhere. Mostly engaged in shady business, and not something useful for humanity. In 2018, a scandal broke out in Portugal when Benfica was caught hacking the Porto scouting system. Hackers operating from Hungary were suspected. Prosecutors accused the “eagles” of hacking the “dragons'” mail. The Portuguese like to repeat the phrase: “In Porto they earn, and in Lisbon they only spend.” A classic story of rivalry between two big cities at different levels. There is plenty of corruption in Portuguese football, and there are constant trials. And the funniest thing is that during the appeal, the “eagles” provided the court with evidence that Porto representatives stole 60 Benfica scouting reports. But law enforcement officers are so afraid of the wrath of the giants’ fans that they usually do not put criminals in prison.
2018. PSG used a scout
The Parisians actively used professional spy Malik Knight-Liman. Now the professional spy is on trial for a dozen charges. The problem with state-owned clubs like Manchester City, Newcastle or PSG is that the owners have real spies at their disposal. People with certain skills can fulfill any whim of sheikhs from different Arab countries. PSG was accused of wiretapping the phones of referees and opponents, as well as stealing data. This is easy to do when you have billions of euros and the Qatari foreign intelligence service with connections in France. A nasty story. PSG is so much stronger than the others that they do not need tricks. They looked for inside information and tried to get secret information. But since the French authorities depend on Qatar for business, they punished no one. Even when the Swiss accused the PSG president of corruption and a series of bribes to FIFA officials, Al-Khelaifi remained free.
2008. Villas-Boas – Spy Mourinho
Villas-Boas had been spying for Mourinho for many years when he worked as an assistant to Jose. Andre started coaching very early and at first, no one knew him by sight in England. The future Zenit coach managed to get into the opponents’ training camps. He studied not only tactics – Mourinho knew that – but also monitored the mental state of specific players. Those who were angry the day before were provoked in the match. They also looked at the readiness of the players, because training shows who has injuries, which are often lied about. Villas-Boas was a good spy, he was not caught. But in a game in the lower English league in 2003, the scout made a mistake. A Lincoln opponent’s player climbed through the ventilation to eavesdrop on a conversation in the locker room, but the office ceiling broke under his weight. It all ended comically – the spy’s team was promoted, and the coach who was eavesdropped on went to train the dishonest opponent.
1993. Paranoia Framed England
England coach Graham Taylor firmly believed that the Norwegians were spying on his team on the eve of an away qualifier for the 1994 World Cup in the United States. Taylor was so paranoid that he demanded that a military base be found for the players. The stars of the team, which would later reach the semi-finals of the home Euro 1996, ended up in barracks. But they didn’t take into account the size of Norway and its peacefulness. The military base was not in a closed city. A sports correspondent lived next to the base, and his neighbors immediately reported to him that famous guests had arrived. The journalist left his house and saw the opponent training. In a world without a developed Internet, the head coach of the Norwegian team read a detailed tactical analysis of the opponent in the newspaper in the morning. England lost 0:2. As a result, they did not get to the 1994 World Cup, where the Norwegians and the Dutch flew. And if they had trained at an ordinary football base, they could have avoided prying eyes.
Football espionage is very ancient. There are so many restrictions in the sport that many are drawn to forbidden fruits. But hacking an opponent’s email is theft, and filming training sessions, if they are closed, is fraud. However, many often laugh at spies. Nagelsmann praised the diligent analysts of Werder who came to another city and monitored his team’s training with a drone. Espionage in football is developing with technology, spies have begun to be caught. In winter, a representative of Torino spied in Rome. And once the Chilean national team shot down a drone over their training base. It turned out that it was a meteorologist’s device, they overdid it.
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