Olympic football
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IDCHAPPY
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I think there's a couple of welsh folk but thats about it, must be because we're shite at football these days
neoman
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Scottish football going through hell at the moment with what's happen to rangers,they should be made to surrender they championship they won two seasons ago,,anyway enough of Scottish football.
Has Germany got a team in the olympics,or are they still sulking from the lose to Italy
Has Germany got a team in the olympics,or are they still sulking from the lose to Italy
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anybody got the list of teams for the olympics?
also during beijing, soccer was actually held in surrounding cities, or just plain different cities, i wonder if this will be the case in london?
also during beijing, soccer was actually held in surrounding cities, or just plain different cities, i wonder if this will be the case in london?
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link to the soccer teams.
my vote is for new zealand if they can get their haxx0ring skills up to snuff on the pitch.
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I checked the list of the olympic teams and it's a joke. This could potentially be a very important tournament, but the olympic commission doesn't take it seriously.
Zero Satori
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They probably take it as seriously as they could/should--that is, they can't offer any financial incentives to winning teams (and by extension, their players) like FIFA can, and they can't pour the amount of money specifically into football without risking the anger of leaders of other sports.
Usually, I would say, the problem extends to having to share the stadia used during the Olympic games with other sports, which the World Cup would never have, and goes-on from there. I don't think it's fair to get angry at the Olympic Committee for not matching the level of the World Cup, because they have a whole lot more to handle with, arguably, less resources with which to do it.
Zero Satori
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I'm thinking a 1-4-5 formation will win the Olympics.
Zero Satori
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I missed the fact that women's football is worth anything, let alone rebelling against the same system which (likely) has more money than their entire country.I see we upset the North Koreans
In any case: Every Olympics, places around the USA seem to love to put pictures of female footballers in advertising, and it's ridiculous. Nobody in the world really seems to care about women's football, but people in the USA seem to think its rise-and-fall popularity is some kind of godsend to promoting the sport in a society dominated by the NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL leagues.
Yet despite this, the MLS is by-far a dominant leader for association football in USA/Canada, but every Olympics, people who know (it seems) little about football beyond watching youth leagues jump out of the woodwork to "cheer on" the women's football team that, even winning a medal, doesn't mean anything in the sport's grand scope.
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Great game between Senegal and Mexico is being broadcast now.