Official 2012 Olympic Soccer Thread

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  1. Corky Bucek

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    GROUP A

    GREAT BRITAIN
    SENEGAL
    UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
    URUGUAY

    GROUP B

    MEXICO
    SOUTH KOREA
    GABON
    SWITZERLAND

    GROUP C

    BRAZIL
    EGYPT
    BELARUS
    NEW ZEALAND

    GROUP D

    SPAIN
    JAPAN
    HONDURAS
    MOROCCO
     
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    FIXTURES
    Group A
    July 26, 5.00pm BST; Old Trafford: United Arab Emirates v Uruguay
    July 26, 7.45pm BST; Old Trafford: Great Britain v Senegal
    July 29, 5.00pm BST; Wembley: Senegal v Uruguay
    July 29: 7.45pm BST; Wembley: Great Britain v United Arab Emirates
    August 1, 7.45pm BST; Ricoh Arena: Senegal v United Arab Emirates
    August 1, 7.45pm BST; Millennium Stadium: Great Britain v Uruguay
    Group B
    July 26, 2.30pm BST; St James' Park: Mexico v South Korea
    July 26, 5.15pm BST; St James' Park: Gabon v Swizterland
    July 29: 2.30pm BST; Ricoh Arena: Mexico v Gabon
    July 29, 5.15pm BST; Ricoh Arena: South Korea v Swizterland
    August 1, 5.00pm BST; Millennium Stadium: Mexico v Swizterland
    August 1, 7.45pm BST; Wembley Stadium: South Korea v Gabon
    Group C
    July 26, 7.45pm BST; Millennium Stadium: Brazil v Egypt
    July 26, 7.45pm BST; Ricoh Arena: Belarus v New Zealand
    July 29: 12.00pm BST; Old Trafford: Brazil v Belarus
    July 29, 2.45pm BST; Old Trafford: Egypt v New Zealand
    August 1, 2.30pm BST; St James' Park: Brazil v New Zealand
    August 1, 2.30pm BST; Hampden Park: Egypt v Belarus
    Group D
    July 26, 12.00pm BST; Hampden Park: Spain v Japan
    July 26, 2.45pm BST; Hampden Park: Honduras v Morocco
    July 29: 5.00pm BST; St James' Park: Spain v Honduras
    July 29, 7.45pm BST; St James' Park: Japan v Morocco
    August 1, 5.00pm BST; Old Trafford: Spain v Morocco
    August 1, 5.00pm BST; Ricoh Arena: Japan v Honduras
    Top two teams go through to the quarter-finals
    QUARTER-FINALS
    August 4, 12.00pm BST; Old Trafford: Winner of D v Runner-up of C
    August 4, 2.30pm BST; Wembley Stadium: Winner of B v Runner-up of A
    August 4, 5.00pm BST; St James' Park: Winner of C v Runner-up D
    August 4, 7.30pm BST; Millennium Stadium: Winner of A v Runner-up of B
    SEMI-FINALS
    August 7, 5.00pm BST; Wembley Stadium: Winner of QF 1 v Winner of QF 2
    August 7, 7.45pm BST; Old Trafford: Winner of QF 3 v Winner of QF 4
    BRONZE MEDAL MATCH
    August 10, 7.45pm BST; Millennium Stadium
    GOLD MEDAL MATCH
    August 11, 3.00pm BST; Wembley Stadium
     
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  4. Corky Bucek

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    How come the superior German youth system did not make it?
     
  5. snowfx2

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    Brazil

    Goalkeepers:

    Neto (Fiorentina),
    Rafael Cabral (Santos),

    Wingbacks:

    Danilo (Porto), Rafael (Manchester United), Alex Sandro (Porto), Marcelo (Real Madrid)

    Centrebacks:

    Thiago Silva (AC Milan), Bruno Uvini (São Paulo), Juan (Inter Milan)

    Midfielders:

    Sandro Ranieri (Tottenham), Rômulo (Spartak Moscow), Lucas Moura (São Paulo),
    Oscar (Internacional), Paulo Henrique Ganso (Santos)

    Forwards:

    Alexandre Pato (Milan), Neymar (Santos), Leandro Damião (Internacional), Hulk (Porto)

    GB

    Jack Butland (Birmingham), Jason Steele (Middlesbrough);
    Ryan Bertrand (Chelsea), Steven Caulker (Tottenham), Craig Dawson (West Brom), Micah Richards (Manchester City), Neil Taylor (Swansea), James Tomkins (West Ham);
    Joe Allen (Swansea), Tom Cleverley (Manchester United), Jack Cork (Southampton), Ryan Giggs (Manchester United), Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal), Danny Rose (Tottenham), Scott Sinclair (Swansea);
    Craig Bellamy (Liverpool), Marvin Sordell (Bolton), Daniel Sturridge (Chelsea).
     
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    Spain's Prelim Roster.

    Goalkeepers: David De Gea (Manchester United), Diego Marino (Villarreal), Joel Robles (Atletico Madrid).
    Defenders: Jordi Alba (Valencia/Barcelona), Cesar Azpilicueta (Marseille), Alberto Botia (Sporting Gijon), Alvaro Dominguez (Borussia Monchengladbach), Inigo Martinez (Real Sociedad), Javi Martinez and Mikel San Jose (both Athletic Bilbao), Martin Montoya (Barcelona).
    Midfielders: Thiago Alcantara and Cristian Tello (both Barcelona), Ander Herrera (Athletic Bilbao), Isco (Malaga), Koke (Atletico Madrid), Juan Mata and Oriol Romeu (both Chelsea).
    Forwards: Adrian Lopez (Atletico Madrid), Iker Muniain (Athletic Bilbao), Rodrigo (Benfica), Alvaro Vazquez (Espanyol).
     
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    Looks like Spain v Brazil to me.

    Still won't believe Giggs is playing till I see it. First he'd be playing for Stuart Pearce and they don't stand a chance.
     
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    germany and brazil are the only two world cup holders never to have won wc

    im guessing because germany cares more about u21 euros than it does the olympics
     
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    Uruguay is taking a pretty loaded team as well.
     
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    assuming the ioc uses the same rule for age that uefa does (calender year), germans that would be eligible:

    mesut ozil
    marco reus
    thomas muller
    andre schurrle
    lewis holtby
    mario gotze
    julian draxler
    peniel mlapa
    ilkay gundogan
    toni kroos
    lars bender
    sven bender
    marcel schemlzer
    benedict howedes
    mats hummels
    holger badstuber
     
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    Would have to be some special generation to compete with those 2. Over half of Brazil's first choice XI is on that team and Spain has pretty much their U21 Euro winning team.
     
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    I think Mexico will have a pretty good team as well.
     
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    The same Brazil team that lost to Mexico a month ago.
     
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    Gat damn
     
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    freddy > everyone listed in this thread
     
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    Spain and Brazil are co favorites at 9/4
    England 6/1
    Uruguay 7/1
    Switzerland 9/1
    Mexico 14/1
    Japan and South Korea 33/1
    Belarus and Senegal 40/1
    Gabon, Morocco, and Egypt 50/1
    Honduras and New Zealand 150/1
    UAE 200/1
     
  17. Weedlord420

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    how are freddy adu and pato still under 23
     
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    if Ryo was playing I'd be team Japan

    so team SK
     
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    with its three exceptions, germany would literally field its starting xi

    fuck

    now im pissed they didnt do this so they could crush the competition mercilessly only to lose to the spain u21 team in the semifinals 1-0
     
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    The U21 tourney is what UEFA used as Olympic qualifying, but Germany isn't losing any sleep over it

    South American teams take Olympics and all youth tournaments very seriously, believe players should play together as much as possible before reaching the senior team. Weird though that they used U17 tourney instead of U20 to determine their 2 teams (Brazil and Uruguay).

    Thiago Alcantra and Xherdan Shaqiri will miss the games.
     
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    hold u23 tournament
    use u21 results for qualifying

    ioc
     
  22. Cza

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    So we would have drawn group D in place of Honduras if not for failing?
     
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    Mexico's Olympic team is struggling with Leon right now. A club that is just promoted to Mexico's 1st division.
     
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    Japan would've been fun to watch if Keisuke Honda and Shinji Kagawa were playing :/
     
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    why arent they
     
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    Uruguay Olympic squad:
    Goalkeepers: Martin Campana (Cerro Largo), Leandro Gelpi (Penarol)
    Defenders: Sebastian Coates (Liverpool), Diego Polenta (Genoa), Ramon Arias (Defensor Sporting), Alexis Rolin (Nacional), Emiliano Albin (Penarol).
    Midfielders: Egidio Arevalo Rios (Palermo), Nicolas Lodeiro (Ajax), Matias Aguirregaray (Palermo), Gaston Ramirez (Bologna), Maximiliano Calzada (Nacional), Diego Rodriguez (Defensor Sporting)
    Forwards: Luis Suarez (Liverpool), Edinson Cavani (Napoli), Abel Hernandez (Palermo), Jonathan Urretaviscaya (Vitoria Guimaraes), Tabare Viudez (Nacional)
    Stand-by: Alejandro Silva (Fenix), Marcelo Silva (Penarol), Federico Pintos (Defensor Sporting), Martin Rodriguez (Wanderers)
     
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    Updated the title
     
  29. tne

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    Great Britain Brazil play at 245 on espn3
     
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    Brazil gonna tear that back line apart.
     
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    I usually hope England do well in major tournaments

    but not this team, I dislike a majority of the players, especially Bellamy/Rose/Ramsey/Sturridge
     
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    not sure who was worse that half, Rose, Bellamy or Pearce

    inclined to go with Pearce
     
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    Surely Beckham doesn't have the quality to be on this team.
     
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    USA 2-2 France

    USA went down 2-0, but come back with goals from Wambach and Morgan :lovelove:

    fun game
     
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    i missed Alex Morgan
     
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    Hope should have had the first goal, really bad dive at it.
     
  38. tne

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    still on team Rapinoe forever
     
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    pk

    morgan is so fast
     
  40. tne

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    nvm no pk
     
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    man our women's team scores the sweetest goals
     
  42. snowfx2

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    Nice goal by Lloyd
     
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    That was a penalty.
     
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    hey france

    you suck
     
  46. clemsontyger04

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    We got a fox in the box reference on Morgan's goal.

    I was looking around for Sven
     
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    Can someoen give a nutshell description of the goals so far for a poor guy stuck in the office without streaming? Alex take her top off?
     
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    Alex Morgan = Fernando Torres

    both incredibly good looking, fast, strikers, both wear the same nikes, both have a weird running form

    both are people that I love
     
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    :in-n-out:
     
  50. Clutch

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    i dont see the problem here