Will we see an image like the one above between the U. The answer to that is unequivocally no. In , the Dream Team at least had to play opposition who played in decent European leagues. There is farcical leagues and competitions for American football.
Yet it isn't yielding dividends. The NFL also has played regular season games in London but American football in England has as much as chance as curling does here. Despite the sell-out crowd at Wembley, there is strong sentiment that wants the NFL to get out of the Home of Football. The knockout rounds are a single-elimination tournament consisting of quarterfinals, semi-finals, and the gold and bronze medal matches. Matches consist of two halves of 45 minutes each.
Since , during the knockout rounds, if the match is tied after 90 minutes, two minute halves of extra time are played extra time is skipped in favour of immediate penalty kicks in the bronze medal match if it is played on the same day in the same stadium as the gold medal match. If the score remains tied, penalty kicks, which is 5 rounds, plus extra rounds if tied, are used to determine the winner.
Medal Tally- as it stands:. There are a total of 34 nations who have won a medal at the competition with 78 medals being awarded within these nations with 26 medals in Gold and Silver and 27 in Bronze In the Bronze medals were shared. Spain ESP 1 2 0 3. Nigeria NGR 1 1 1 3. France FRA 1 1 0 2. Sweden SWE 1 0 2 3. Canada CAN 1 0 0 1.
Mexico MEX 1 0 0 1. United States USA 0 1 1 2. Germany GER 0 1 0 1. Paraguay PAR 0 1 0 1. Switzerland SUI 0 1 0 1. Ghana GHA 0 0 1 1. Japan JPN 0 0 1 1. Norway NOR 0 0 1 1. What is the meaning of all this? What does football add to the Olympics other than swelling an already packed programme in a variety of distant satellite venues? What does the Olympics add to football other than stuffing a few more fixtures into an already packed calendar?
Belgium and the Netherlands have featured once between them in the past 70 years. But it does have to feel like a meaningful part of the whole, an enterprise into which the sport itself is invested, where the value of a medal is broadly accepted by fans, governing bodies and above all the players.
Through the postwar amateur era, the years of Soviet-bloc dominance and the current unsatisfactory compromise by which squads are staffed by whoever picks up the phone, this has probably never been the case.
Naturally, whenever anyone suggests scrapping any longstanding event or convention you get the usual howls of protest. And perhaps there are ways of reforming Olympic football: a dedicated slot in the calendar, a more intelligible qualification process, doing away with over-age players.
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