Which soccer groups are enjoying on the Olympics, when are the video games and who’re the favourites? Al Jazeera explains.
Males’s soccer has been an everyday fixture in each Olympic Video games version, besides in 1896 and 1932.
Because the 2024 Olympics kicks off in Paris, Al Jazeera tells you all the things you have to know concerning the males’s soccer occasion:
A complete of 16 international locations have certified for males’s soccer at Paris 2024.
Group A: France, United States, Guinea, New Zealand
Group B: Argentina, Morocco, Ukraine, Iraq
Group C: Uzbekistan, Spain, Egypt, Dominican Republic
Group D: Japan, Paraguay, Mali, Israel
Not like the ladies’s soccer event, which is a full senior-level event, the lads’s Olympic soccer occasion is restricted to gamers below 23 years outdated, with a most of three over-age gamers allowed.
The 16 males’s groups are divided into 4 teams of 4 groups every. The highest two from every group progress to the quarterfinals, adopted by the semifinals. The winners of the semifinals meet within the gold medal match, whereas the losers play within the bronze medal match.
⚽ Who’re the favourites to win the gold?
With a mixture of rising expertise and a few skilled gamers, hosts France are the highest contenders on the Paris Video games. Coached by Thierry Henry, France want to safe their second-ever Olympic gold medal, having first received on the 1984 Video games in Los Angeles.
Twice gold medallists Argentina even have a stacked staff with Manchester Metropolis ahead Julian Alvarez and Main League Soccer (MLS) midfield sensation Thiago Almada.
Spain are among the many favourites, with Euro 2024 gamers Fermin Lopez and Alex Baena additionally representing their nation on the Olympics.
⚽ Which different high gamers might be enjoying on the Olympics?
Different high gamers on the Paris Olympics embrace France’s Michael Olise and Alexandre Lacazette, Argentina’s Nicolas Otamendi and Guinea’s Naby Keita.
⚽ What are the important thing dates for the matches?
- Group stage: July 24-30
- Quarterfinals: August 2
- Semifinals: August 5
- Bronze medal match: August 8
- Gold medal match: August 9
⚽ The place will the matches be held?
The boys’s soccer matches might be held throughout seven stadiums in France.
- Bordeaux Stadium in Bordeaux
- Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium in Saint-Etienne
- La Beaujoire Stadium in Nantes
- Lyon Stadium in Decines-Charpieu (close to Lyon)
- Marseille Stadium in Marseille
- Good Stadium in Good
- Parc des Princes in Paris
⚽ What occurs if a match ends in a draw?
If a match is degree on the finish of regular enjoying time, further time of two quarter-hour every might be performed. If nonetheless tied, the match might be determined by a penalty shootout.
⚽ What number of gamers are in every staff?
The collaborating international locations can identify a squad of 18 gamers, together with a most of three over-age gamers. They’re additionally allowed to call 4 reserve gamers.
⚽ Which groups have received probably the most golds?
Hungary and Nice Britain have received probably the most gold medals – three every – in males’s soccer on the Olympics whereas Brazil, Argentina, the previous Soviet Union and Uruguay have received two instances every.
Brazil have probably the most medals (seven) together with back-to-back golds in 2020 and 2016. Nevertheless, the Brazilians is not going to be defending their title on the Paris Video games after they did not qualify for the primary time since 2004.
⚽ Preserve updated:
You’ll be able to comply with the motion on Al Jazeera’s devoted Paris 2024 Olympics event web page with all of the information and options, in addition to occasion build-up and dwell textual content commentary on chosen soccer, basketball, tennis and boxing fixtures.
