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2008 Summer Olympics - Statistics - Medal winners - Football

2008-08-28T05:43:28-06:00

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	Argentina (ARG) Oscar Ustari Ezequiel Garay Luciano Fabián Monzón Pablo Zabaleta Fernando Gago Federico Fazio José Ernesto Sosa Éver Banega Ezequiel Lavezzi Juan Román Riquelme Ángel Di María Nicolás Pareja Lautaro Acosta Javier Mascherano Lionel Messi Sergio Agüero Diego Buonanotte Sergio Romero Nicolás Navarro	Nigeria (NGR) Ambruse Vanzekin Chibuzor Okonkwo Onyekachi Apam Dele Adeleye Monday James Chinedu Obasi Sani Kaita Victor Obinna Promise Isaac Solomon Okoronkwo Oluwafemi Ajilore Olubayo Adefemi Peter Odemwingie Efe Ambrose Victor Anichebe Emmanuel Ekpo Ikechukwu Ezenwa Oladapo Olufemi	Brazil (BRA) Diego Alves Renan Rafinha Alex Silva Thiago Silva Marcelo Ilsinho Breno Hernanes Anderson Lucas Ronaldinho Ramires Diego Thiago Neves Alexandre Pato Rafael Sóbis Jô
Women's team	United States (USA) Hope Solo Nicole Barnhart Heather Mitts Christie Rampone Rachel Buehler Stephanie Cox Kate Markgraf Lori Chalupny Lindsay Tarpley Shannon Boxx Heather O'Reilly Aly Wagner Carli Lloyd Tobin Heath Angela Hucles Natasha Kai Amy Rodriguez Lauren Cheney	Brazil (BRA) Andréia Bárbara Andréia Rosa Tânia Simone Rosana Érika Renata Costa Formiga Daniela Ester Pretinha Francielle Maycon Maurine Marta Cristiane Fabiana	Germany (GER) Nadine Angerer Fatmire Bajramaj Saskia Bartusiak Melanie Behringer Linda Bresonik Kerstin Garefrekes Ariane Hingst Ursula Holl Annike Krahn Simone Laudehr Renate Lingor Anja Mittag Celia Okoyino da Mbabi Babett Peter Conny Pohlers Birgit Prinz Sandra Smisek Kerstin Stegemann

Football - FIFA World Cup 2006 Germany - e-book and free content

2008-08-08T17:24:20-06:00

The FIFA World Cup (often called the Football World Cup or simply the World Cup) is the most important competition in international football (soccer), and the world's most representative team sport event.

The 2006 FIFA World Cup (officially titled 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany, sometimes referred to as the Football World Cup) finals are scheduled to take place in Germany between 9 June and 9 July 2006.

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Football (soccer) at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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Football (soccer) at the 2008 Summer Olympics will be held in Beijing and several other cities in the People's Republic of China from August 6 to August 23. Associations affiliated with FIFA are invited to send their full women's national teams and men's U-23 teams to participate. Men's teams are allowed to augment their squad with three players over the age of 23.

For these games, the men will compete in a 16-team tournament, and the women will compete in a 12-team tournament. Football preliminaries actually commence two days before the Opening Ceremony of the Games on August 8.

Venues

Aside from the host city Beijing, football matches are scheduled to take place in four other cities:

Beijing: Beijing National Stadium
Beijing: Workers' Stadium
Qinghuangdao: Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Centre Stadium
Shanghai: Shanghai Stadium
Shenyang: Shenyang Olympic Stadium
Tianjin: Tianjin Olympic Centre Stadium

Squads

For the men's tournament, each nation must submit a squad of 18 players, 15 of which must be born on or after 1 January 1985, and 3 of which can be older "overage" players, by 23 July 2008. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

The women's tournament on the other hand is a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. Each nation must submit a squad of 18 players by 23 July 2008. A minimum of two goalkeepers (plus one optional alternate goalkeeper) must be included in the squad.

Participating nations

Men

Group A

Argentina
Australia
Côte d'Ivoire
Serbia

Group B

Japan
Netherlands
Nigeria
USA

Group C

Belgium
Brazil
China PR
New Zealand

Group D

Cameroon
Honduras
Italy
Korea Republic

Women

Group A

Argentina
Canada
China PR
Sweden

Group B

Brazil

Germany
Korea DPR
Nigeria

Group C

Japan
New Zealand
Norway
USA

References

Regulations of the Olympic Football Tournaments
"Sports Competition Schedule". BOCOG
"Athletics". (Sports). International Olympic Committee
"Programme of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, Beijing 2008" (pdf). International Olympic Committee.
Federation Internationale de Football Association
RSSSF

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Famous Football (Soccer) Quotes

2008-06-22T18:30:54-06:00

Bill Shankly, English soccer manager.
Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I'm very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.

Phil Woosnam, Welsh soccer player and manager.
The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn't move, kick it until it does.

Jean Paul Sartre, French philosopher.
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.

Roy Keane, Irish soccer player and English football club manager.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.

Ronaldo, Brazilian soccer player, after winning 2002 World Cup.
I'm sure sex wouldn't be so rewarding as this World Cup. It's not that sex isn't good but the World Cup is every four years and sex is not.

Johan Cryuff, Dutch soccer player.
Italians can't win the game against you, but you can lose the game against the Italians.

Anthony Burgess, English writer.
Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football.

Bill Shankly, English soccer manager.
If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Eric Cantona, talking nonsense:
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.

George Best, on women and alcohool:
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol; it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.

David Beckham, on Sir Alex Ferguson while still at Manchester United:
Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had.

Football (Soccer) Tactics - Video

2008-06-12T12:32:24-06:00

There are various individual skills and team tactics needed to play effective football. Football is in theory a very simple game. However, well-organised and well-prepared teams are often seen beating teams with supposedly more skilled players, even over time. Coaching manuals and books generally cover not only individual skills but tactics as well. Several of these are explored below.

Football (Soccer) Tactics

2008-06-05T03:03:09-06:00

There are various individual skills and team tactics needed to play effective Association football. Football is in theory a very simple game. However, well-organised and well-prepared teams are often seen beating teams with supposedly more skilled players, even over time. Coaching manuals and books generally cover not only individual skills but tactics as well. Several of these are explored below.