World Cup Players Say Goodbye to Privacy?

With the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting on Thursday, teams from around the world are prepping for a month of high-pressure games and exhausting training schedules. England’s coach, Fabio Capello, wants to make sure his players are only focused on soccer—and he’s resorting to high-tech spying to do it.

Sources are reporting that Capello is using special high-tech TVs in his team’s hotel rooms to ensure that the men don’t get any late-night visits from wives or girlfriends and stay rested. So far, it’s unclear how the monitoring works. Is Capello using video surveillance? Motion detection? Or is it simply a computer monitor with a webcam that also acts as a TV? Either way, the players aren’t happy: “It’s going to be like Big Brother,” one said. “The hotel rooms used to be the place we all escaped to; now they’re not safe.”

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[Justin Cup]

Enjoying reading your articles. Perhaps unrelated but read an interesting bit of trivia, were you aware that 6,352 football players have so far featured in WorldCup teams, a quarter (1,545) of whom actually never were on the field.