Olympic Soccer Thread

Post #1 » by **magik9113** » Thu May 22, 2008 8:37 pm

Not sure if there's an olympic thread or not, but this will be specifically for soccer. hurray!

Players must be U23 but each country may bring 3 older players.

groups:

Group A

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Post #2 » by **magik9113** » Thu May 22, 2008 8:47 pm

Messi is likely to play for Argentina. Inzaghi wants to play for Italy but they might not take him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Toulon_Tournament
Toulon internation tournament is going on, featuring many of the olympic teams.

El Turco · Post #3 » by **El Turco** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:01 pm

are EURO 08 players playing for their olympic teams?

if yes, that would be huge overload.

Post #4 » by **magik9113** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:11 pm

I guess they could, but won't

Post #5 » by **BlackMamba** » Thu May 22, 2008 9:55 pm

this thread is soooooooo depressing...

italy's team looks strong, i suppose the african teams will be a tough matchup.

and i don't know about brazil, but argentina will have a GREAAT team, just imagine messi and aguero...

El Turco · Post #6 » by **El Turco** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:03 pm

yep, Argentina has to be the favorites, if they can get one experienced finisher to pair with aguero and messi, they ll be virtually unstoppable.

I am very disappointed Turkey failed to qualify for this, they have some great talent coming up from youth ranks led by Nuri Sahin and Arda Turan.

Post #7 » by **BlackMamba** » Thu May 22, 2008 10:21 pm

imagine how i feel about mexico...

GS Warriors 1 · Post #8 » by **GS Warriors 1** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:24 pm

magik9113 wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Toulon_Tournament
Toulon internation tournament is going on, featuring many of the olympic teams.

A lot of fringe U-23 players on the U.S. roster. Seitz or Cervi(they will take an overage keeper as the #1), Feilhaber, and Hill will likely go to Beijing from this tournament.

Post #9 » by **magik9113** » Fri May 23, 2008 2:52 am

and Altidore/Adu :nod:

Post #10 » by **Slava** » Fri May 23, 2008 8:53 am

Argentina must be favourites if Messi plays but there's good young players in Brazil too. I'm not sure if Anderson is going to play.

Post #11 » by **BlackMamba** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:41 pm

i suppose pato will play for brazil.

but argentina's base will be the u20 champions and i think they wanted riquelme to be one of the over 23 you could get but i think he won't be there, that would have been sick.

Post #12 » by **magik9113** » Tue May 27, 2008 8:58 pm

Toulon tournament:
Chile beat Ivory Coast 2-1
Italy beat Japan in PKs

finals Thursday on fsc

Post #13 » by **BlackMamba** » Tue May 27, 2008 10:17 pm

chile has a great U20 team.

AdamTheGreek · Post #14 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Wed May 28, 2008 10:59 pm

Do not sleep on the African nations.

Post #15 » by **Dutch** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:08 am

No mention of the Netherlands?

Post #16 » by **magik9113** » Thu Jul 3, 2008 7:15 pm

Well Argentina must be the favorites. They have Messi, Gago, Mascherano, gago and their over aged player....Riquelme.
Brazil will have Pato and all their young talents, not sure which older player they will bring.
Italy will have Giusseppe Rossi, Giovinco and Rocchi from Lazio as their over aged guy.
Them and european champions holland should all come outta their groups EASILY.

If USA brings Altidore and Adu they may have some hope of finishing 2nd in their group.

tkunit · Post #17 » by **tkunit** » Sat Jul 5, 2008 3:15 pm

Dutch wrote:No mention of the Netherlands?

Yes it can be the U23 players first offical choke jobs while wearing the orange.

Post #18 » by **Dutch** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 11:15 am

I believe it is U21 and as far as choke jobs they won the European title U21 in 2007 and 2006..

Point forward · Post #19 » by **Point forward** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 11:58 am

It is quite comical and sad that Bundesliga clubs refuse to release their players.

Schalke will not let Rafinha play for Brazil
Bremen will not let Diego play for Brazil
Bayern will not let Demichelis play for Argentina
Hoffenheim will not let Obasi play for Ghana

Post #20 » by **BlackMamba** » Wed Jul 9, 2008 1:44 pm

and barcelona will not let ronaldinho (why?) play for Brazil...