Jasmine Mander, the former Canadian assistant coach handed a one-year ban by FIFA for her role in the Paris Olympic drone-spying scandal, has broken her silence.

In a first-person account on website, Mander apologizes for the incident. But she says while she knew Canada Soccer spied on other teams, she did not know that Canadian team analyst Joey Lombardo would be flying a drone that day at a New Zealand training session or that there were even laws in France limiting where drones could be flown.

“I messed up,” Mander wrote. “I really did. I should have said something. Spoken up. Rocked the boat. Like many people within the organization, I knew that there were attempts at Canada Soccer to watch other teams train. And I accepted it. I didn’t do anything to stop it.”

Mander says she was d

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