Bill Belichick Would Feel Right at Home as China's Coach in Women's World Cup

Published: September 13, 2007, 2:50 pm

Tags: bill belichick, billbelichick, patriotgate

Filed under: Patriots, Boston, Soccer, Women's SportsIt turns out that Patriotgate isn't the only example of a team accused of stealing signs. The Chinese women's national soccer team is facing accusations of its own. The day before their match with China, Denmark team officials found two men with video cameras sitting behind a two-way mirror in the hotel conference room where the team was about to hold a strategy meeting. "It's like a spy movie," Danish team press officer Pia Schou Nielsen said Thursday. She said the men were Chinese, although Denmark coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller told reporters he did not know their nationalities. Somehow I think this one is going to get a bit less attention in the media than the Bill Belichick scandal, mostly because I think the average American sports fan cares just a little bit more about the NFL than the Women's World Cup. But while I find the "everybody does it" defense that some Patriots fans have offered rather unconvincing, it is interesting

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