The men's match between Iraq and Denmark has started football tournament Olympics 2016. Life explains why the world's most popular sport plays the role of the "ugly duckling" at the Games.
Football in Rio began before the official opening of the Olympics, and there was no excitement around it. Of course, the hosts of the tournament, the Brazilians, are destined for the role of headliner. But this is only because pentacampeons have never in history become winners of the Games. A very interesting statistical fact. That's all.
However, how many of you now remember the absence of Russian football players at the Games? That's it. The football tournament will remain somewhere in the background for most Olympic spectators.
However, first things first.
At the Olympics, teams made up of players no older than 23 years old compete. This rule was invented by the IOC specifically to ensure that young football players get actual playing practice. high level. Moreover, since 1996, the regulations have been adjusted, and now each team has the right to enter three football players over 23 years old for the Games.
During Soviet times, our Olympic team won gold twice. The first time this happened was in 1956, then Lev Yashin himself was in goal, the team included Igor Netto, Nikita Simonyan, Eduard Streltsov, Anatoly Ilyin and other legends. And the final match against Yugoslavia forever entered the golden fund of domestic sports.
There is another reason for nostalgia. At the Games in 1988, our team beat the “ball wizards” in the finals - the very same Brazilians who rule Olympic football this year. They also remember that success in Seoul. The team led by Anatoly Byshovets defeated the young but already stellar Bebeto, Romario, Taffarel with a score of 2:1... And experienced fans do not need to explain once again who Yuri Savichev is. Well, yes, the same one who scored the winning goal against Brazil.
Nowadays, players of the Russian youth team are fighting in vain to get into the Games. The guys, led by Nikolai Pisarev, tried to make it to Rio in 2014. That team included Denis Davydov, who now plays for Spartak-2, Pavel Mogilevets from Rostov, Serder Serderov, who left for the Bulgarian Slavia, railway worker Alexey Miranchuk...
To be included in the list of lucky ones, you had to reach the playoffs of the 2016 Youth European Championship. Alas, our team took only second place in the qualifying group with a sufficient number of points, but an unsatisfactory difference in goals scored and goals conceded.
Our guys were sincerely sad and said that they really wanted to compete at the Olympics. It's possible. After all, young guys who have not yet been spoiled by huge contracts and realities Russian football, there must be a desire to play.
"What emotions? Failure of hopes"
But Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko then said that there was no need to be sad. So, maybe you really don’t really want to? After all, our team hasn’t been to the Games for 28 years...
- Of course, it’s a shame that we were once again left without the Games, but we must understand that in football the main tournament is the World Cup. It is followed in importance by the European Championship. Therefore, the world does not attach much importance to qualifying for the Games or winning the Olympic football tournament where young players play, Vitaly Mutko said two years ago.
It turns out that the gold won in synchronized swimming or rowing, is valued more than olympic medal high quality, hanging around the neck Russian football player. Which is very sad, because the fans would be happy if our team played at the Olympics.
However, everyone really goes crazy only for two football tournaments - the World Cup and the European Championship. Everything else interests the audience to a lesser extent.
And FIFA doesn’t attach much importance to the Games. Although before 1930 everything was not like that. And it was Olympic football that was rated highest then.
But how much time has passed since then? 86 years...
Without Russian flag and the anthem, the prospects for the restoration of a number of Russian organizations in their rights - the editors of R-Sport list the most important sporting events of the next year.
FIFA World Cup in Russia
Main sporting event For the country, not only in 2018, but also over the last four years (after the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi), the World Cup will be held, which will be held on Russian territory for the first time in history. The tournament will be held from June 14 to July 15, 2018 in 11 cities: Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg and Sochi.
In the seven years that Russia has been preparing for the 2018 World Cup, five stadiums have been built in the country (work on seven more arenas is in the final stage), new airport terminals in almost all 11 cities (in Rostov there is a new airport in an open field), 64 bases for participating teams, hotels, bridges, training fields and other infrastructure that will be used during the tournament and after its completion.
At the draw held in the Kremlin on December 1, the Russian team's opponents were the teams of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uruguay. In the opening match of the tournament, the Russian team will play against Saudi Arabia on June 14 at the Luzhniki Stadium, with two more games group stage Stanislav Cherchesov's team will hold in St. Petersburg and Samara.
Olympic Games with Russia in neutral status
The XXIII Winter Olympic Games 2018 will be held from February 9 to 25 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Competitions will be held in 15 sports and 102 disciplines. Russian athletes will perform under neutral flag and in the status of “Olympic Athletes from Russia” (OAR). So far, none of the national federations has spoken out against competing in South Korea under a neutral flag.
According to the decision of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), only “clean” athletes without doping history. List Russian athletes who will be able to start in Pyeongchang, their coaches and other officials will be determined no later than January 28.
On at the moment biggest problems Russian skeleton athletes, bobsledders, speed skaters, skiers and hockey players have the prospect of admission to the Games. Some of the athletes have already been banned for life from the Olympic Games based on the findings of the Denis Oswald commission after rechecking doping samples from the 2014 Games in Sochi. In addition, Russia lost 11 medals from the home Olympics. 22 Russian athletes contacted Sportivny arbitration court(CAS) in order to achieve the lifting of the ban on participation in the Olympics.
One of those suspended, skeleton athlete Elena Nikitina, has already won the European Championships. At the Olympics in South Korea, Russians will compete for highest awards in figure skating, short track speed skating, biathlon, speed skating, ski racing, hockey and possibly other sports.
Paralympians are waiting for the end of January
In December, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) extended the suspension of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) and announced that the final decision on the admission of Russian athletes to the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang will be made at the end of January.
According to the IPC working group, the Russian side did not fulfill the five criteria necessary to restore the rights of the RKR. With the Paralympic entry deadline set for February 23, the next IPC Governing Council meeting on January 26-28 will be Russia's last chance to meet all criteria on time, IPC chief Andrew Parsons said.
RKR was stripped of IPC membership back in August 2016, Russian team then he was suspended from participation in the Summer Paralympics. In September 2017, the IPC extended the suspension of the RKR, but allowed the Russians to participate in the selection for the 2018 Games in a neutral status in skiing, biathlon, snowboarding and cross-country skiing.
World Hockey Championship after the Olympics
During the Olympic season, the Hockey World Championship, as a rule, noticeably lost its status: few people are ready to play two major tournaments with an interval of just two months. However, this “rule” will not affect the May tournament in 2018, since it does not participate in the Games in Pyeongchang. Thus, the level of teams in Denmark will, in fact, be even higher than at the Olympics.
Russian fans are guaranteed to see at least one of the stars of the first magnitude in the national team uniform: Alexander Ovechkin or Evgeni Malkin, Nikita Kucherov or Artemy Panarin or Nikita Zaitsev. From the moment when the Russian national team was headed by Oleg Znarok, national team has never been left without a World Championship medal (gold in 2014, silver in 2015, bronze in 2016 and 2017).
Home Championship Europe by figure skating
A rare case, but the European Championship, which will be held in Moscow in mid-January, can be extremely successful for the host country, that is, for Russia. It sounds paradoxical, because at the moment Russian figure skaters are clear favorites only in the women's single skating, where it will even be surprising if Russia does not take the entire pedestal.
But in the other three disciplines, the strengths, if not equal, are quite comparable. In the singles competition, the Russians will face Spaniard Javier Fernandez, who has won five previous European Championships in a row. Any winning streak, as we know, ends sooner or later, especially since the Spaniard is not yet in the best condition this season. It will be more difficult in pair skating, where Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov will have to defend the highest European title in a dispute with the winners of the recent Grand Prix Final Alena Savchenko and Bruno Massot, but this task is also feasible.
In ice dancing at the European Championships a year ago, the six-time Russian champions lost only three points to the winners. The winners then were two-time world champions and current world record holders Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron from France, who triumphantly went through the first half of the current season, but if we assume that the most unexpected surprises can happen at the very beginning of the new year, why not one of them happen in January Moscow?
New stars are shining there
The World Figure Skating Championships, which take place during the Olympic season, are considered by many to be not as serious as in other years. The fact is that many Olympic champions, having withstood psychological stress and won main title in their career, they cannot cope with the burden of fame, the flow of interviews and filming, and finally, simply with physical and psychological fatigue - and do not go to the world championship. For example: in 2014, at the World Championships in Saitama (Japan), of the winners of four gold medals at the Sochi Olympics, only . Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov, Adelina Sotnikova, as well as Meryl Davis/Charlie White considered it good to rest.
However, in the absence of Olympic heroes, oddly enough, there is a positive aspect. New stars very often appear at the post-Olympic World Championships. For example, in 2014, Papadakis and Sizeron, who are now the main contenders for gold at the Pyeongchang Olympics, performed at a tournament of this level for the first time. At the same post-Olympic World Championship, the Russian Anna Pogorilaya loudly announced herself, who now, without a doubt, would be a contender not only for getting into Olympic team, but also for a medal at the 2018 Games, if not for the injury. So March 19-25 in Milan will be interesting - even if we don’t see some of the heroes of Pyeongchang there.
This European Championship is the first in history at individual distances. Previously, speed skaters competed at the European Championships only in the classic all-around, and since 2017 also in the sprint, but now there is an opportunity to become the European champion in the specialized Olympic event of the program. But there is also a non-Olympic event that will debut in the program of this tournament - the team sprint, where the Russians are the holders of the current world record.
There will probably be many interesting results in Kolomna, and since the tournament will be pre-Olympic, its results, as well as the composition of the participants, are difficult to predict, but one thing can be said with confidence: the stands of the Kolomna skating center on January 5-7 will definitely be sold out, because speed running Ice skating is the most favorite sport in this city near Moscow.
Who will challenge Carlsen for the championship?
Next November in London the match will take place for the title of world chess champion among men. Holder of the title since 2013, the Norwegian grandmaster will defend his status as the strongest chess player on the planet in a dispute with the winner of the March Candidates Tournament in Berlin.
Eight grandmasters will play in the candidates tournament. The hopes of domestic chess fans are tied to three players. Sergey Karjakin will perform as a participant in the previous championship match with Carlsen (the Russian in November 2016 finished the main part of the meeting in classical chess in a draw - 6:6, but lost in rapid - 1:3). Alexander Grischuk made his way through a series of FIDE Grand Prix tournaments, and Vladimir Kramnik received a special invitation from the organizers of the competition.
The Russians' rivals will be Levon Aronyan (Armenia), Ding Liren (China), Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So (both USA) and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan). Experts call the line-up of participants the strongest in all the years of holding candidate tournaments and believe that each of the eight grandmasters has a good chance of winning. In the December FIDE rankings, the highest odds are for Aronian (2805 points), Mamedyarov (2799) and Caruana (2799), second only to the leader Carlsen (2837).
European Championships unite
The first unified European Championship summer species Sports will take place from 2 to 12 August 2018 in Berlin and Glasgow. The competition program will include seven sports. The capital of Germany will host the competition athletics, and one of largest cities Scotland - by aquatic species, cycling, rowing, artistic gymnastics, triathlon and golf. Each European Championship will be organized by a separate federation and the city administration hosting the competitions.
Such combined competitions will now be held once every four years. In 2018, more than 4.5 thousand athletes will take part in the European Championships. According to the organizers, the format of the joint championship will make the competition much more spectacular and will attract the attention of new fans to the sport and its heroes. Such a global tournament will have to increase the prestige of the titles won. A total of 184 sets of awards will be awarded within the framework of the unified European Championship.
Football appeared at the First Olympic Games of modern times in Athens in 1896, although its participation was limited to an exhibition match between the national teams of Denmark and Greece, which ended with a score of 9:0 in favor of the Danes.
At the next Olympics in Paris, two games have already taken place, three teams from France, Belgium and England, in the same demonstration format, the strongest was revealed. The 1900 Great Britain team is officially considered the first Olympic football champion, and other teams have also received honours. Also, three teams played football at the next Olympics in St. Louis: two American and one Canadian, the final success was with the Canadians, who beat their opponents with a total score of 11:0. The mentioned tournament, like both previous ones, was a demonstration tournament; initially, football was not included in the program of the 1904 Olympic Games; it was already during the games, at the insistence of the Canadians, that the organizers agreed to hold the tournament, which took place at the very end of the forum. But these results were recognized by the IOC, and the awards also found their heroes.
Football became an Olympic sport in 1908. This fact was facilitated by two circumstances: the creation of FIFA in 1904 and the holding of the next Olympics in England, the homeland of football. One of the indispensable conditions for the British who joined FIFA in 1905 was the official recognition of football. Olympic form sports. Since then, football has become an integral part of the Olympic Games program (with the exception of the 1932 Olympic Games in the USA).
Olympic football tournaments are held by the International Olympic Committee, FIFA, which has an Olympic commission, as well as the organizing committee hosting this Olympics, and directly the country that is the host of the Olympic Games. The frequency of the Olympic football tournament is once every 4 years, just like the Olympic Games themselves.
From 1908 to 1956, the football tournament was played exclusively according to the Olympic system, with games played in one knockout match. Starting with the Olympic Games in Rome (1960), the format underwent changes, a mixed formula was introduced, according to which at the first stage a group tournament was held with games in one round (4 groups of 4 teams each), at the second stage the teams that took first and second places in groups continue competitions according to the Olympic system.
The Olympic football tournament was initially limited to only amateur teams, however, in many countries the game did not receive professional status, and therefore the strongest were sent for medals. Ultimately, it was decided to allow the participation of professionals whose age is limited to 23 years. In addition, three players in each team do not fall under this restriction.
There are no cups awarded to the winners of the Olympic football tournament, football players who win the tournament receive only gold medals, finalists are awarded silver, and third-place teams are awarded bronze medals.
All winners olympic games(gold, silver, bronze):
1900 – Great Britain, France, Belgium
1904 – Canada, USA, USA
1908 – Great Britain, Denmark, Holland
1912 – Great Britain, Denmark, Holland
1920 – Belgium, Spain, Holland
1924 – Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden
1928 – Uruguay, Argentina, Italy
1936 – Italy, Austria, Norway
1948 – Sweden, Yugoslavia, Denmark
1952 – Hungary, Yugoslavia, Sweden
1956 – USSR, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria
1960 – Yugoslavia, Denmark, Hungary
1964 – Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany
1968 – Hungary, Bulgaria, Japan
1972 – Poland, Hungary, GDR/USSR*
1976 – GDR, Poland, USSR
1980 – Czechoslovakia, East Germany, USSR
1984 – France, Brazil, Yugoslavia
1988 – USSR, Brazil, Germany
1992 – Spain, Poland, Ghana
1996 – Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil
2000 – Cameroon, Spain, Chile
2004 – Argentina, Paraguay, Italy
2008 – Argentina, Nigeria, Brazil
2012 – Mexico, Brazil, South Korea
* - the teams played a draw in the match for third place and, by decision of the organizing committee of the games, jointly received medals
The Olympic tournament that fans are looking forward to perhaps the most is football. 16 men's and 12 women's teams will take part in the competition. There are so many games that there will be seven tournaments football arenas. Football games start 3 days before the official opening of the Olympics.
Football game participants
28 national football teams will come to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Qualification for the competition took place from the end of 2014 until almost mid-2016. Based on the results, all teams were selected and divided into groups.
Men's team participants are divided into the following groups
Group A:
- Brazil;
- Iraq;
- Denmark.
- Sweden;
- Colombia;
- Nigeria;
- Japan.
- Fiji;
- Republic of Korea;
- Mexico;
- Germany.
- Honduras;
- Algeria;
- Portugal;
- Argentina.
Women's groups
- Brazil;
- China;
- Sweden;
- Canada;
- Australia;
- Zimbabwe;
- Germany.
- New Zealand;
- France;
- Colombia.
The Russian team was unable to qualify and did not qualify for the Olympics, neither the men's nor the women's team. Qualifying tournament It’s different for each region, usually it’s a continental championship.
The course of the competition will be as follows. First there will be a group round, with each team playing everyone else in their group. Then, from each group, the two teams that managed to score the most points advance to the quarterfinals. The playoff principle already applies there: the losers are eliminated, but can compete for 3rd place.
After the end of each tournament, the winning team will be awarded.
Football competition calendar
The Olympic Games for those involved in football will begin on August 3, they will be opened by women's teams, and will end on August 20, with the end of the men's tournament. The schedule is as follows.
- Group round: August 3, 6, 9. Every day there are 6 matches.
- Quarterfinals: August 12. 4 matches.
- Semi-final: August 16. 2 games.
- Final: August 19. Match for 3rd place, award ceremony for all medals.
- Group round: August 4, 7, 10 (8 matches each day).
- Quarterfinals: August 13. 4 matches.
- Semi-final: August 17. 2 matches.
Football the tournament will take place in 5 cities, at 7 sites. Both finals will take place at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio.
Football fans wait until the Olympics begin to watch every game. This sport has not always been so popular, but it has been present at the Olympics since 1900. Since then, there has only been one Summer Olympics that did not feature football - 1932, Los Angeles. But the women's tournament was included in the program in 1996.
Football is played by two teams, each with 11 people, including the goalkeeper. Each team tries to score a goal. You can hit the ball with your feet, head, and sometimes with your body. It is prohibited to touch the ball with your hands; only the goalkeeper can do this if the ball is close to the goal.
If the end of the Summer Olympic Football Games is a draw, the teams are given overtime. If overtime is spent, but the winner is still undecided, then a penalty shootout is awarded.
All Olympic football champions
Football competitions at the Summer Olympics first appeared at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and have been included in the program of every subsequent Games, except for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Initially, the competition was men's; a separate women's tournament began to be held at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Football as a sport first appeared at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. Three clubs from France, Belgium and Great Britain played two games. First, the French Union France de Sports Athletic beat the Brussels Free Francophone University team from Belgium with a score of 6:2 and then met with the British Upton Park. The British defeated the French 4-0 and were proclaimed first Olympic champions. France became the second team, Belgium third.
Three teams also played football at the next Olympic Games in 1904 in St. Louis. Participated in the tournament Canadian club"Galt" and two American teams: St. Rose Parish and national team high school Christian Brothers College. The Canadians beat both American teams to become champions, while the United States received silver and bronze medals.
Currently, the International Olympic Committee considers both of these competitions to be part of the official programs of the Olympic Games, while FIFA and IFFHS classify them as exhibition competitions and do not include them in statistics.
In 1904, the International Football Federation was founded, and from the next Summer Olympics in London in 1908, this organization governed football competitions at the Olympic Games. Since then, only national teams and only one team per country have participated in the football tournament (the only exception was the participation of two teams from France at the 1908 Games). Also, the "Olympic System" with single-match knockout rounds was introduced as a competition format and it was decided that only amateur players could participate in the tournament.
Until 1930, when the first FIFA World Cup was held, the Olympic football tournament was the most important international competition in this sport, however, due to the ban on the participation of professional players in it, this status was transferred to the World Championship. FIFA officially recognizes the 1924 and 1928 Olympic tournaments as “World Amateur Championships”, that is, the direct predecessors of the modern World Cup.
Since the 1960 Summer Olympics, the competition format has been changed and the number of participants has been limited. From that moment on, 16 teams were divided into four groups of four teams and played each other within their groups. Top countries from their groups advanced to the playoffs.
Professional players have been allowed to compete since the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but only those from Asia, Africa, the CONCACAF zone and Oceania. The ban was completely lifted in 1992, and at the same time a partial age limit for players was introduced. Each team can have three players of any age, the rest must be no older than 23 years old.
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IV OLYMPIC GAMESLondon (UK) - 1908
F I N A L: Great Britain - Denmark - 2:0
Team Great Britain - champion of the 1908 Olympic Games.
V OLYMPIC GAMES
Stockholm (Sweden) - 1912
F I N A L: Great Britain - Denmark - 4:2
Team Great Britain - champion of the 1912 Olympic Games.
Great Britain: Back, f. l. t. r.: Horace Littlewort, Dr. Ronald Brebner, Arthur Berry, Harold Walden, Vivian Woodward, Gordon Hoare, Ivan Sharp, Arthur Knight; Front, f. l. t. r.: James Dines, Thomas Burn, Edward Hanney.
The 1916 Olympics were not held due to the 1st World War.
Antwerp (Belgium) - 1920
F I N A L: Belgium - Czechoslovakia - 2:0*
* - The match was stopped in the 39th minute. The Czechoslovakian team left the field due to biased refereeing and was disqualified. The Belgian team was recognized as the champion of the Olympics, and an additional tournament was held for 2-3 places.
Match for 2-3 places: Spain - Holland - 3:1
The Belgian national team is the champion of the 1920 Olympic Games.
VIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Paris (France) - 1924
F I N A L: Uruguay - Switzerland - 3:0
The Uruguay national team is the champion of the 1924 Olympic Games.
Uruguay: Nasazzi, Arispe, Alzugaray, Mazzali, Zibechi, Ghierra;
agachados: Urdinarin, Barlocco, Petrone, Cea, Romano.
IX OLYMPIC GAMES
Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 1928
F I N A L: Uruguay - Argentina - 1:1, 2:1
The Uruguay national team is the champion of the 1928 Olympic Games.
X OLYMPIC GAMES
Los Angeles (USA) - 1932
There was no football tournament.
XI OLYMPIC GAMES
Berlin (Germany) - 1936
F I N A L: Italy - Austria - 2:1
The Italian team is the champion of the 1936 Olympic Games.
XIV OLYMPIC GAMES
London (UK) - 1948
F I N A L: Sweden - Yugoslavia - 3:1
The Swedish team is the champion of the 1948 Olympic Games.
XV OLYMPIC GAMES
Helsinki (Finland) - 1952
F I N A L: Hungary - Yugoslavia - 2:0
The Hungarian team is the champion of the 1952 Olympic Games.
From left to right: Lantos, Palotas, Czibor, Bozsik, Lorant, Zakarias, Grosits, Kocsis, Hidegkuti, Puskas and Buzansky.
XVI OLYMPIC GAMES
Melbourne (Australia) - 1956
F I N A L: USSR - Yugoslavia - 1:0
The USSR national team is the champion of the 1956 Olympic Games.
From left to right: G. Kachalin (senior coach), I. Netto, L. Yashin, B. Razinsky, E. Streltsov, A. Bashashkin, S. Salnikov, A. Paramonov, M. Ogonkov, I. Betsa, V. Ryzhkin , V. Ivanov, N. Simonyan, A. Ilyin, A. Maslenkin, B. Kuznetsov, A. Isaev, N. Tishchenko, B. Tatushin.
XVII OLYMPIC GAMES
Rome (Italy) - 1960
F I N A L: Yugoslavia - Denmark - 3:1
The Yugoslav national team is the champion of the 1960 Olympic Games.
XVIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Tokyo (Japan) - 1964
F I N A L: Hungary - Czechoslovakia - 2:1
The Hungarian team is the champion of the 1964 Olympic Games.
XIX OLYMPIC GAMES
Mexico City (Mexico) - 1968
F I N A L: Hungary - Bulgaria - 4:1
The Hungarian team is the champion of the 1968 Olympic Games.
HUNGARY 1968 (from bottom to top, left to right): László Fazekas; László Pusztai; Lajos Kocsis; Lajos Dunai; Miklós Páncsics; László Branikovits; Miklós Szalay; unidentified team masseur; head coach Károly T. Lakat; Gábor Fejes; István Basti; Kelemen; Oláh; Bertalan Bicskei; Lajos Szűcs; Ernő Noskó; Radics Janos; Zoltán Szarka; Zoltán Varga; Károly Father; Antal Dunai; László Hunyadi, Ede Dunai III, Iván Menczel; László Keglovich; and László Nagy.
XX OLYMPIC GAMES
Munich (Germany) - 1972
F I N A L: Poland - Hungary - 2:1
Match for 3rd place: USSR - East Germany - 2:2
(bronze medals awarded to both teams)
Olympic champions in 1972 - the Polish team.
XXI OLYMPIC GAMES
Montreal (Canada) - 1976
F I N A L: GDR - Poland - 3:1
For 3rd place: USSR - Brazil - 2:0
The GDR team is the champion of the 1976 Olympic Games.
XXII OLYMPIC GAMES
Moscow (USSR) - 1980
F I N A L: Czechoslovakia - East Germany - 1:0
For 3rd place: USSR - Yugoslavia - 2:0
The Czechoslovakian national team is the champion of the 1980 Olympic Games.
XXIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Los Angeles (USA) - 1984
F I N A L: France - Brazil - 2:0
The French team is the champion of the 1984 Olympic Games.
XXIV OLYMPIC GAMES
Seoul (South Korea) - 1988
F I N A L: USSR - Brazil - 2:1(d.v.)
The USSR national team is the champions of the 1988 Olympic Games.
XXV OLYMPIC GAMES
Barcelona (Spain) - 1992
F I N A L: Spain - Poland - 3:2
The Spanish national team is the champion of the 1992 Olympic Games.
XXVI OLYMPIC GAMES
Atlanta (USA) - 1996
men's tournament
F I N A L: Nigeria - Argentina - 3:2
The 1996 Olympic champions are the Nigerian national team.
women's tournament
FINAL: USA - China - 2:1
XXVII OLYMPIC GAMES
Sydney (Australia) - 2000
men's tournament
F I N A L: Cameroon - Spain - 2:2 (5:3 - on pens.)
The Cameroon national team is the champion of the 2000 Olympic Games.
women's tournament
F I N A L: Norway - USA - 3:2
XXVIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Athens (Greece) - 2004
men's tournament
F I N A L: Argentina - Paraguay - 1:0
The Argentina national team is the champion of the 2004 Olympic Games.
women's tournament
FINAL: USA - Brazil - 2:1
XXIX OLYMPIC GAMES
Beijing (China) - 2008
men's tournament
F I N A L: Nigeria - Argentina - 0:1
The Argentina national team is the champion of the 2008 Olympic Games.
Juan Roman Riquelme, Nicolas Pareja, Sergio Romero, Ezequiel Garay, Pablo Zabaleta y Fernando Gago;
abajo: Lionel Messi, Sergio Aguero, Luciano Monzon, Angel di Maria y Javier Mascherano.
women's tournament
F I N A L: Brazil - USA - 0:1 (additional time)
2008 Olympic champions - soccer players of the US national team.
XXX OLYMPIC GAMES
London (UK) - 2012
men's tournament
F I N A L: Brazil - Mexico - 1:2
The Mexican team is the champion of the 2012 Olympic Games.
women's tournament
FINAL: USA - Japan - 2:1
2012 Olympic champions - soccer players of the US national team.
All Olympic medalists (gold, silver, bronze)
men's tournaments
| 1900 – Great Britain, France, Belgium 1904 – Canada, USA, USA 1908 – Great Britain, Denmark, Holland 1912 – Great Britain, Denmark, Holland 1920 – Belgium, Spain, Holland 1924 – Uruguay, Switzerland, Sweden 1928 – Uruguay, Argentina, Italy 1936 – Italy, Austria, Norway 1948 – Sweden, Yugoslavia, Denmark 1952 – Hungary, Yugoslavia, Sweden 1956 – USSR, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria 1960 – Yugoslavia, Denmark, Hungary 1964 – Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany 1968 – Hungary, Bulgaria, Japan 1972 – Poland, Hungary, GDR/USSR* 1976 – GDR, Poland, USSR 1980 – Czechoslovakia, East Germany, USSR 1984 – France, Brazil, Yugoslavia 1988 – USSR, Brazil, Germany 1992 – Spain, Poland, Ghana 1996 – Nigeria, Argentina, Brazil 2000 – Cameroon, Spain, Chile 2004 – Argentina, Paraguay, Italy 2008 – Argentina, Nigeria, Brazil 2012 – Mexico, Brazil, South Korea |
