England boss Thomas Tuchel taking action to prevent Spygate scandal at World Cup

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Thomas Tuchel has revealed that the English FA will strengthen security to stop nations from spying on the squad’s training sessions.England will be based in Kansas City, Missouri, at the Swope Soccer Village, for the entirety of the upcoming World Cup.Tuchel made his final 26-man squad for the tournament on Friday morningAFPThe Three Lions lost their preferred training camp, the Compass Minerals National Performance Centre, after FIFA insisted that Argentina would be situated there due to their fixtures being in Kansas City.The South Americans’ premium facility features pressurised hyperbaric chambers, recovery baths, specialised swimming pools with underwater treadmills, motion capture cameras to assess player output and a state-of-the-art gym.Thomas Tuchel hopes to replicate a similar environment at their base before the squad travel to Texas, Massachusetts, and New Jersey for their group matches.Manchester City and Manchester United have been based there when spending time on the other side of the Atlantic for pre-season tournaments.It features nine football pitches and a 2,000-seater mini stadium.After unveiling his 26-man World Cup squad, the German boss said: “We will have security there and we will build a bit of protection.“Because, of course, it’s crucial if you train the day before a game and you do your team build-ups, you do your set-pieces, you finalise penalties.“You don’t want the opponent to know. It just gives you a crucial advantage. So we’re trying to be as private as possible.“Argentina had the first option to choose a very secluded high-end facility in Kansas. So like always, you try to influence what you can influence.“We are very happy with the training facility, especially what the FA and all the people in charge have done to it.England will be based at the Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City for the World Cup and staying at the Inn at Meadowbrookwww.youtube.com/@sportingkcyouth“I think it suits all of our needs. But I agree it can be overlooked.”This comes after the recent controversies of ‘Spygate’, where Southampton admitted conducting unauthorised filming of a Middlesbrough training session ahead of their first leg of the Championship play-off semi-final.The Saints were charged with spying ahead of previous fixtures against Ipswich Town and Oxford United, which led to their expulsion from the play-off final and a four-point deduction for the start of next season.History of cheatingThe international scene is no stranger to these accusations after Sweden were forced to apologise to South Korea for spying on them at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.They admitted, ahead of the tournament’s opening match, to sending a scout to a house in the Austrian mountains near their rivals’ training base to record information after using a telescope.Another situation involved two footballing giants, Brazil and France, at the 2014 World Cup, with Les Bleus accusing the home nation of using drones.The competition’s defending champions will be staying not far from the Three LionsGETTYThe France manager at the time, Didier Deschamps said: “Apparently drones are used more and more, We don’t want intrusion into our privacy. It’s hard to fight.“It’s not up to me. FIFA handles this and has been carrying out an inquiry.”Even England have experienced this before, ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Norway in 1993.The Three Lions manager Graham Taylor moved his team to a military base as he was so convinced his team were being watched.The neighboursArgentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Netherlands will all be staying in the same state as Tuchel’s men throughout the World Cup, with all 48 countries spread across Canada, the United States, and Mexico for the expanded tournament.England are flying out to Miami, Florida, for their pre-tournament camp, where they hope to adapt to the hot temperatures before their World Cup campaign officially begins against Croatia on June 17.