Olympics: Matty and the Missile take you through another action packed day in Paris, which saw a mixed result for the Aussies.
Just a year after an historic fourth-place finish at last year’s Women’s World Cup on home soil , Australia ’s best-ever result and one that captured the imagination of the country, it feels something like a bad dream.
Before Canada’s opening group game of this Olympic tournament against New Zealand, a Canada analyst was arrested by French police for attempting to use a drone to the Kiwi team’s training sessions. Police retrieved footage from the drone of a second NZ training session three days earlier, as well as messages between the analyst, Joseph Lombardi, and Canadian assistant coach Jasmine Mander.
Australia's defender #14 Alanna Kennedy reacts as US' players celebrate at the end of the women's group B football match between Australia and the USA of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Marseille Stadium in Marseille on July 31, 2024. Had Canada been handed a heftier punishment – like disqualification from the knockouts or its effective equal, a nine-point deduction – the Matildas’ Olympic dream was alive.
It is hugely impressive that the reigning gold medallists managed to win all three group games despite the absence of key coaches and the media firestorm that surrounded them.Yet the scandal is not over – and neither are the ties to the Matildas. “Morally, my own reputation within the analysis field, potentially being unable to fulfil my role on a matchday. Moving forward I will have a discussion with Joey and reach out to the wider tech team with regards to how we could potentially look for other solutions.
“Yesterday in a meeting when discussing, I asked to propose a alternative solution as for scouting it can be the difference between winning and losing and all top 10 teams do it”. He added: “It makes me ill, it makes me sick to my stomach to think that there could be something that calls it into question.”
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