Canada Soccer staffer complained to then-top executive about alleged orders to spy one year before drone scandal

In August, 2023, roughly a year before Canada’s women’s soccer team was enveloped in scandal after a staffer was caught using a drone at the Paris Olympics to watch an opponent’s practice, the top executive of the country’s national soccer organization received a complaint from a staff member about colleagues allegedly being directed to spy on competitors.Jason deVos, who at the time was the interim general secretary of Canada Soccer, was told directly by a staff member that junior analysts with the national program were being instructed – sometimes against the analysts’ objections – to clandestinely observe opposing teams, materials reviewed by The Globe and Mail show.