It began with a tweet, as FENAFUTH — the football governing body in Honduras that oversees the Honduran national soccer team — released an 18-second video of a drone in flight above where the team was training at ANZ Stadium in Sydney.
The Hondurans were upset, calling the drone a “spy” in advance of Wednesday’s World Cup playoff match against Australia that will decide which team qualifies for the World Cup in Russia.
Honduras coach Jorge Luis Pinto fanned the flames at his press conference, telling reporters through a translator on the eve of the match that the incident was “embarrassing for such an advanced country.