The match Iraq - Denmark started the men's 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 role of the headliner is destined for the hosts of the tournament - the Brazilians. But this is only because the pentacampeons have never won the Games in history. A very interesting statistic. Only and everything.
However, how many of you now remember the absence of Russian football players at the Games? That's it. Football tournament for the majority of the audience of the Olympics will remain somewhere in the backyard.
However, first things first.
At the Olympics, teams are made up of players no older than 23 years old. This rule was invented by the IOC specifically to ensure that young football players get match practice in real life. high level. At the same time, since 1996, the regulations have been adjusted, and now each team has the right to enter three players over 23 years old for the Games.
During Soviet times, our Olympic team won gold twice. The first time this happened in 1956, then Lev Yashin himself stood at the gate, 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 in the finals beat the "magicians of the ball" - the same Brazilians who rule the Olympic football this year. That success in Seoul is also remembered. The team led by Anatoly Byshovets defeated with a score of 2:1 the young, but already stellar Bebeto, Romario, Taffarel ... And experienced fans do not need to explain once again who Yuri Savichev is. Well, yes, the one that scored the winning goal against Brazil.
Today, the players of the Russian youth team are fighting in vain to get into the Games. Guys led by Nikolai Pisarev in 2014 tried to break into Rio. 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 Alexei Miranchuk ...
To get into the list of lucky ones, it was necessary to reach the playoffs of the youth European Championship 2016. Alas, our team took only the second place in the qualifying group with a sufficient number of points, but an unsatisfactory difference between goals scored and conceded.
Our guys sincerely lamented and said that they really wanted to compete at the Olympics. Not excluded. After all, young guys who have not yet been spoiled by huge contracts and realities Russian football, the desire to play should be.
"What emotions? Crush of hopes"
But the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko then said that one should not be sad. So maybe you really don't want to? After all, our team has not been at the Games for 28 years ...
- Of course, it's a shame that once again we were 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 entering 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 of the highest order, hanging on the neck Russian football player. Which is very sad, because the fans would be happy if our team played at the Olympics.
However, only two football tournaments really go crazy - the World Cup and the European Championship. Everything else interests viewers to a lesser extent.
And FIFA does not attach much importance to the Games. Although before 1930 it was not so. And it was Olympic football that was then quoted above all.
But how long has it been 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
chief sporting event for the country not only in 2018, but also over the past four years (after the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi) will be the World Cup, which for the first time in history will be held in Russia. 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 (seven more arenas are in the final stage), new airport terminals in almost all 11 cities (in Rostov - 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 teams of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uruguay got into the rivals of the Russian national team. In the opening match of the tournament, the Russian team will play with Saudi Arabia on June 14 at the Luzhniki stadium, two more games group stage the team of Stanislav Cherchesov will hold in St. Petersburg and Samara.
Olympic Games with Russia in neutral status
XXIII Winter Olympic Games 2018 will be held from 9 to 25 February 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 playing in South Korea under a neutral flag.
The opportunity to speak at the Games, by decision of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will be given only to "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 this moment biggest problems with the prospect of admission to the Games have Russian skeletonists, bobsledders, skaters, skiers and hockey players. Some of the athletes have already been banned from the Olympic Games for life 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 applied to the Sports arbitration court(CAS) in order to achieve the lifting of the ban on participation in the Olympics.
One of the suspended - skeletonist Elena Nikitina - has already won the European Championship. At the Olympics in South Korea, the Russians will compete for top honors in figure skating, short track, biathlon, speed skating, cross-country skiing, hockey and possibly other sports.
Paralympians are waiting for the end of January
In December, the International Paralympic Committee () 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 would be made at the end of January.
According to the IPC working group, the Russian side did not meet the five criteria necessary for the restoration of the RPC in rights. As the Paralympics deadline is February 23, IPC CEO Andrew Parsons said the next meeting of the IPC Governing Board on January 26-28 will be Russia's last chance to meet all the criteria on time.
The RPC was stripped of its IPC membership back in August 2016, Russian team then suspended from participation in the summer Paralympics. In September 2017, the IPC extended the suspension of the RCC, 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.
Ice Hockey World Championship after the Olympics
The hockey world championship during the Olympic season, as a rule, noticeably lost in status: few are ready to play two major tournaments with an interval of only two months. However, this "rule" will not affect the May tournament in 2018, because 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 form of the national team: Alexander Ovechkin or Evgeny Malkin, Nikita Kucherov or Artemy Panarin or Nikita Zaitsev. From the moment when Oleg Znarok headed the Russian national team, national team has never been left without a World Cup medal (gold in 2014, silver in 2015, bronze in 2016 and 2017).
Home Championship Europe by figure skating
A rare event, 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 skaters are clear favorites only in the women's single skating, where it will even be surprising if Russia does not occupy the entire pedestal.
But in the other three disciplines, the forces, if not equal, are quite comparable. In the singles competition, the Russians will face the Spaniard Javier Fernandez, who won five previous European championships in a row. Any winning streak, as you know, ends sooner or later, especially since this season the Spaniard is still not in the best condition. 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 doable.
In ice dancing at the European Championship a year ago, the six-time champions of Russia / lost only three points to the winners. The winners then were two-time world champions and current world record holders Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Sizeron from France, who triumphantly passed the first half of this season, but if we assume that at the very beginning of the new year the most unexpected surprises can happen, why not one of them happen in January Moscow?
There are new stars lit
The world championships in figure skating, 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 endured psychological stress and won main title in their careers, 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), only four gold medal winners of the Sochi Olympics competed. Tatyana Volosozhar and Maxim Maxaim Trankov, Adelina Sotnikova, and Meryl Davis/Charlie White considered it good to rest.
However, in the absence of Olympic heroes, oddly enough, there is a positive moment. At the post-Olympic World Championships, new stars are very often lit. For example, in 2014, Papadakis and Sizeron, who are now the main contenders for the gold of the Pyeongchang Olympics, performed at a tournament of this level for the first time. At the same post-Olympic World Championships, Russian Anna Pogorilaya loudly declared herself, who now, no doubt, would be a contender not only for getting into the Olympic team, but also for the medal of the 2018 Games, if not for the injury. So it will be interesting in Milan on March 19-25 - even if we don’t see one of the heroes of Pyeongchang there.
This European Championship is the first in history at separate distances, previously 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 profile Olympic form of the program. But there is also a non-Olympic event that will make its debut in the program of this tournament - the team sprint, where the Russians are the owners of the current world record.
There will certainly 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 is certain: there will definitely be a full house in the stands of the Kolomna Skating Center on January 5-7, because speed run skating is the most favorite sport in this city near Moscow.
Who will challenge Carlsen for the championship?
next November in London there will be a match for the title of World Chess Champion among men. The holder of the title since 2013, the Norwegian grandmaster will defend the status of the strongest chess player on the planet in a dispute with the winner of the March Candidates Tournament in Berlin.
Eight grandmasters will play at the Candidates Tournament. The hopes of domestic chess fans are connected with three players. Sergey Karjakin will play as a participant in the previous championship match with Carlsen (in November 2016, the Russian finished the main part of the meeting in classical chess - 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 will face Levon Aronian (Armenia), Ding Liren (China), Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So (both US) and Shahriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan). Experts call the composition of the participants the strongest in all the years of the Candidates Tournaments and believe that each of the eight grandmasters has a good chance of winning. In the December FIDE rating, Aronian (2805 points), Mamedyarov (2799) and Caruana (2799) have the highest odds, second only to Carlsen (2837).
European Championships unite
First unified European championship summer species Sports will be held from 2 to 12 August 2018 in Berlin and Glasgow. The competition program will include seven sports. The capital of Germany will host competitions in athletics, and one of largest cities Scotland - by water sports, cycling, rowing, gymnastics, triathlon and golf. Each European Championship will be organized by a separate federation and city administration hosting starts.
Similar combined competitions will now be held every four years. In 2018, more than 4.5 thousand athletes will take part in the European Championship. As conceived by the organizers, the format of the unified championship will make the competition much more spectacular and draw 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. In total, 184 sets of awards will be played within the framework of the unified European Championship.
Football appeared already at the First Olympic Games of our time in Athens in 1896, although its participation was limited to holding 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, revealed the strongest. The 1900 Great Britain team is officially considered the first Olympic football champion, and the rest of the teams also received awards. Also, three teams played football at the next Olympics in St. Louis: two American and one Canadian, the final success was accompanied by the Canadians, who beat their opponents with a total score of 11:0. The mentioned tournament, like both previous ones, was indicative, 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 are also recognized by the IOC, and the awards also found their heroes.
Football became an Olympic sport in 1908. Two circumstances contributed to this fact: 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 view 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 that hosts this Olympics, and directly by the host country of the Olympic Games. The frequency of the Olympic football tournament every 4 years, in fact, as well as 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 ranked first and second places in groups, continue to compete in the Olympic system.
In the Olympic football tournament, only amateur teams However, in many countries the game did not receive professional status, and therefore the strongest went for medals. In the end, 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.
Cups are not awarded to the winners of the football Olympic tournament, the players who win the tournament receive only gold medals, the finalists are awarded silver, and the teams that take third place 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, East Germany/USSR*
1976 - East Germany, 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, which fans are waiting for almost the most, is football. 16 men's and 12 women's teams will take part in the competition. There are so many games to come 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 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The qualification of the competition took place from the end of 2014 until almost the middle of 2016. As a result, all teams are selected and divided into groups.
Male team members are divided into the following groups
Group A:
- Brazil;
- Iraq;
- Denmark.
- Sweden;
- Colombia;
- Nigeria;
- Japan.
- Fiji;
- The 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 could not pass the selection and did not get to the Olympics, neither the men's nor the women's team. Qualifying Tournament for each region is different, usually it is the championship of the continent.
The course of the competition will be as follows. First there will be a group round, each team will play with all the others in their group. Then from each group, two teams that managed to score the most points go to the quarterfinals. The playoff principle is already in effect 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 completion of the men's tournament. The schedule is as follows.
- Group round: 3, 6, 9 August. Every day 6 matches.
- Quarter-final: 12 August. 4 matches.
- Semi-final: 16 August. 2 games.
- Final: 19 August. Match for 3rd place, award ceremony with all medals.
- Group round: 4, 7, 10 August (every day, 8 matches).
- Quarter-finals: 13 August. 4 matches.
- Semi-final: 17 August. 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, only one Summer Olympics has taken place where there was no 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 players, including the goalkeeper. Each team tries to score a goal. You can hit the ball with your feet, head, sometimes with your body. It is forbidden 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 the overtime is used up, but the winner has not been determined, then a penalty shoot-out is appointed.
All Olympic football champions
Football competition at the Summer Olympics first appeared at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and was included in the program of every subsequent Games, except for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Initially, the competition was for men, a separate women's tournament began to be held from 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 team of the Brussels Free Francophone University 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 the third.
Also, three teams 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 & National Team high school Christian Brothers College. The Canadians beat both American teams to become champions, while the US took silver and bronze medals.
Currently, the International Olympic Committee considers both of these competitions part of the official programs of the Olympic Games, while FIFA and IFFHS classify them as demonstration competitions and do not include them in the statistics.
In 1904, the International Football Federation was founded, and from the following Summer Olympic Games in London, 1908, this organization governed the football competitions at the Olympic Games. Since then, only national teams have participated in the football tournament, and only one team per country (the only exception was the participation of two teams from France at the 1908 Games). Also, the "Olympic System" was introduced as a competition format with rounds of one knockout match and it was decided that only amateur players could participate in the tournament.
Until 1930, when the first 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 Cup. FIFA officially recognizes the 1924 and 1928 Olympic tournaments as the "Amateur World Championships", that is, the immediate predecessors of the modern World Cup.
Since the 1960 Summer Olympics, the format of the competition has changed and the number of participants is limited. Since then, 16 teams have been divided into four groups of four teams and played within their groups in a match with each other. 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 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 play three players of any age, the rest must be no older than 23 years.
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IV OLYMPIC GAMESLondon (UK) - 1908
F I N A L: Great Britain 2-0 Denmark
Team Great Britain - the champion of the Olympic Games in 1908.
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Stockholm (Sweden) - 1912
F I N A L: Great Britain - Denmark - 4:2
Team Great Britain - the champion of the Olympic Games in 1912.
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 2-0 Czechoslovakia*
* - The match was stopped at the 39th minute. The Czechoslovak 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 team is the champion of the 1920 Olympic Games.
VIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Paris (France) - 1924
F I N A L: Uruguay 3-0 Switzerland
The Uruguayan national team is the champion of the 1924 Olympic Games.
Uruguay: Nasazzi, Arispe, Alzugaray, Mazzali, Zibechi, Ghierra;
agachados: Urdinarin, Barlocco, Petrone, Cea, Romano.
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Amsterdam (Netherlands) - 1928
F I N A L: Uruguay - Argentina - 1:1, 2:1
The Uruguayan team is the champion of the 1928 Olympic Games.
X OLYMPIC GAMES
Los Angeles (USA) - 1932
There was no football tournament.
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Berlin (Germany) - 1936
F I N A L: Italy 2-1 Austria
The Italian team is the champion of the 1936 Olympic Games.
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London (UK) - 1948
F I N A L: Sweden 3-1 Yugoslavia
The Swedish national team is the champion of the 1948 Olympic Games.
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Helsinki (Finland) - 1952
F I N A L: Hungary 2-0 Yugoslavia
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 (head 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 3-1 Denmark
The Yugoslav national team is the champion of the 1960 Olympic Games.
XVIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Tokyo (Japan) - 1964
F I N A L: Hungary 2-1 Czechoslovakia
The Hungarian national team is the champion of the 1964 Olympic Games.
XIX OLYMPIC GAMES
Mexico City (Mexico) - 1968
F I N A L: Hungary 4-1 Bulgaria
The Hungarian national team is the champion of the 1968 Olympic Games.
HUNGARY 1968 (from bottom to top, left to right): László Fazekas; Lászlo Pusztai; Lajos Kocsis; Lajos Dunai; Miklós Páncsics; Lászlo Branikovits; Miklós Szalay; unidentified team masseur; head coach Károly T. Lakat; Gabor Fejes; István Basti; Kelemen; Olah; Bertalan Biskei; Lajos Szucs; Ernő Nosko; Radics Janos; Zoltán Szarka; Zoltan Varga; Karoly Fatér; Antal Dunai; László Hunyadi, Ede Dunai III, Iván Menczel; Lászlo Keglovich; and Laszlo Nagy.
XX OLYMPIC GAMES
Munich (Germany) - 1972
F I N A L: Poland 2-1 Hungary
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: East Germany 3-1 Poland
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 1-0 GDR
For 3rd place: USSR - Yugoslavia - 2: 0
The Czechoslovak national team is the champion of the 1980 Olympic Games.
XXIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Los Angeles (USA) - 1984
F I N A L: France 2-0 Brazil
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(a.w.)
USSR national team - champions of the 1988 Olympic Games.
XXV OLYMPIC GAMES
Barcelona (Spain) - 1992
F I N A L: Spain 3-2 Poland
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 3-2 Argentina
The 1996 Olympic champions are the Nigerian national team.
women's tournament
F I N A L: USA 2-1 China
XXVII OLYMPIC GAMES
Sydney (Australia) - 2000
men's tournament
F I N A L: Cameroon - Spain - 2:2 (5:3 - on pen.)
The Cameroon national team is the champion of the 2000 Olympic Games.
women's tournament
F I N A L: Norway 3-2 USA
XXVIII OLYMPIC GAMES
Athens (Greece) - 2004
men's tournament
F I N A L: Argentina 1-0 Paraguay
The Argentina national team is the 2004 Olympic champion.
women's tournament
F I N A L: USA 2-1 Brazil
XXIX OLYMPIC GAMES
Beijing (China) - 2008
men's tournament
F I N A L: Nigeria 0-1 Argentina
The Argentina national team is the 2008 Olympic champion.
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 (extra time)
Olympic champions 2008 - soccer players of the US team.
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London (UK) - 2012
men's tournament
F I N A L: Brazil 1-2 Mexico
The Mexican national team is the 2012 Olympic champion.
women's tournament
FINAL: USA - Japan - 2: 1
Olympic champions 2012 - soccer players of the US 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, East Germany/USSR* 1976 - East Germany, 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 |
