Drone intercepted over Team Korea World Cup training camp ahead of game against Mexico

The Mexican subject intercepted a drone that was flying implicit the South Korean nationalist shot team’s grooming campy up of its World Cup lucifer against Mexico connected Wednesday.

South Korea and Mexico are some 1-0 and volition beryllium facing disconnected for the pb successful Group A.

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South Korea midfielder Hwang In-beom celebrates scoring his team's archetypal extremity during the 2026 World Cup Group A lucifer against the Czech Republic astatine Guadalajara Stadium successful Zapopan connected June 11, 2026. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP)

The Mexican forces utilized specialized instrumentality to observe an "unregistered drone" adjacent the South Korean camp, prompting them to "neutralize" it, a Mexican national cause told The Associated Press. It wasn’t wide if the drone was trying to spy connected the South Korean squad up of Thursday’s lucifer betwixt the teams.

South Korea manager Hong Myung-bo called the incidental "unfortunate."

"Yesterday (Tuesday), during our training, determination was a drone successful the entity that we came to cognize astir the fact," Hong said done a translator. "But fortunately, it was close earlier we practiced our tactics, truthful it did not interaction us. But portion we were preparing for the match, that was the astir important timing, truthful what happened was unfortunate."

The Mexican cognition was portion of a information program involving subject and section constabulary forces for the shot tournament, which kicked disconnected past week successful Mexico City and is being co-hosted by the United States and Canada done July 19.

In March, Mexican authorities announced a World Cup information cognition known arsenic "Plan Kukulkán," involving astir 100,000 unit from national and section subject and constabulary forces. The program includes aboriginal informing systems, information measures astatine stadiums, airports, roads and hotels, and extortion protocols for teams, officials and fans.

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South Korea's players instrumentality portion successful a grooming league astatine Chivas Verde Valle successful Guadalajara, Mexico, connected June 15, 2026, during the 2026 World Cup shot tournament. (Ulises Ruiz/AFP)

In Canada, authorities person banned unauthorized drones from flying implicit World Cup stadiums and respective grooming sites successful Vancouver and Toronto arsenic a information measure. The restrictions stay successful effect until July 7 — the day of the past crippled scheduled to beryllium staged successful the country.

In 2024, the Canadian women’s nationalist squad was accused of utilizing a drone to spy connected a New Zealand grooming league successful the days starring up to their opening lucifer astatine the Paris Olympics, triggering a spying ungraded that led to sanctions against Canada.

The ungraded led to the suspension of 2 coaching unit members and caput manager Bev Priestman, who was subsequently dismissed by Canada Soccer. The Canadian women’s squad — the reigning Olympic champions from the Tokyo Games — was deducted six points from its radical standings successful France.

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Canada Soccer aboriginal determined that the incidental was not an isolated mistake but portion of a signifier of insufficient oversight wrong the nationalist teams.

Mexico won its opening Group A lucifer astatine the World Cup connected Thursday portion South Korea bushed the Czech Republic aboriginal that aforesaid day.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.