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Football governing body FIFA has banned Canada women’s football coaches for one year and stripped the Olympic team six points at the Paris Games over a drone-spying scandal, it said on Saturday. Head coach Bev Pristman is among the suspended, after she had already been banned by the country’s football federation. “The officials were each found responsible for offensive behaviour and violation of the principles of fair play,” FIFA said in its statement. Canada, the women’s Olympic champions from Tokyo, allegedly used drones to spy on a New Zealand practice in France. New Zealand lodged a compla…

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