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The Honduras coach has accused Australia of spying on his team's training session with a drone ahead of their crucial World Cup playoff match.

The Honduran National Football Federation (FENAFUTH) posted 18 seconds of footage of a drone flying above Sydney's Olympic Stadium on Monday and said it was causing "discomfort".

“Australia spied on Honduras’s official training session from a drone, causing discomfort among the Honduran team and delegation,” the Hondurans said on Twitter.

Honduras face the Socceroos at the same stadium on Wednesday night for the deciding second leg of their intercontinental playoff with the scores level at 0-0 after a tightly fought first leg in San Pedro Sula on Friday.

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Honduras coach Jorge Luis Pinto, who has already claimed that a Honduran journalist leaked information to Australia ahead of the first leg, refused to accept stadium bosses' explanation that children had been flying the drone from a nearby park.

According to News.com.au, he said: "The incident is embarrassing for such an advanced country. When Australian went to Honduras, they checked every bathroom, every box at the stadiums where they trained and where had the official training.

“It was an embarrassing incident. The videos (of games) show more than anything a drone can show. It just takes some of the merit away from the fair play and sporting event that will be held tomorrow.

“Let’s not be innocent, it’s espionage in football. Just like VAR (the video referee) has made it into football, drones have made their way into espionage."

According to Honduran newspaper La Prensa, Honduras team management sent up drones of their own in 2016 to ensure no unauthorised party was monitoring their training sessions.

A spokesman for the Football Federation Australia told The Daily Telegraph: “We were not involved”.

And the Australian newspaper later reported the drone was being "innocently operated" by a father and his children in a nearby park.

A spokesperson for Sydney Olympic Park reportedly confirmed that the family were quickly identified and Honduran officials were notified.