‘Cheat better!’ – USWNT forward Purce responds to Canada spying scandal

“Did you think they weren’t gonna see the drone?”

U.S. women’s national team forward Midge Purce has expressed her disbelief at the expanding spying scandal involving Canadian soccer.

On Thursday, Canada women’s national team head coach Bev Priestman was sent home from the Olympics after two of her staffers were caught using drones to spy on New Zealand’s training.

But the issue is far more widespread than just the 2024 Olympics. On a call with media on Friday, Canada Soccer CEO Kevin Blue said that using drones to illegally spy on opponents has been “systemic” within the federation’s teams.

“The more I learn about this specific matter, the more concerned I get about a potential long-term, deeply embedded systemic culture of this type of thing occurring, which is obviously completely unacceptable,” Blue said.

On The Women’s Game podcast, Purce appeared as a guest alongside Sam Mewis, her former USWNT teammate. For Purce, the hardest part of the scandal to understand is how Canada could have allegedly cheated in a way that was so simple to catch.

“Let’s say it was in fact, intentionally cheating,” Purce posited. “Did you think they weren’t gonna see the drone? Like I’m just confused. Drones are loud. Like, cheat better! Call the Patriots — call Bill Belichick!”

Purce’s last comment — a reference to the notorious Spygate scandal in the NFL — obviously struck a nerve with Mewis, a diehard New England Patriots fan.

“Enough, this is going off the rails now. You’ve gone too far Midge!” Mewis retorted with a laugh.

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