Women's Olympic Football

Mars Bar

Some of you might not be aware but the Women's Olympic Football starts today with Group E Teams GB playing New Zealand at 4pm. (Groups A,B,C and D are the Men's groups)

Both BBC and Eurosport are showing the game. Coverage on Eurosport appears to finish at 9.45 so I'm assuming they are showing some of the other games also.

Today's Fixtures are

25 Jul
16:00
Women's Football - First Round Group E Great Britain - New Zealand
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25 Jul
17:00
Women's Football - First Round Group G United States - France
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25 Jul
17:00
Women's Football - First Round Group F Japan - Canada
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25 Jul
18:45
Women's Football - First Round Group E Cameroon - Brazil
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25 Jul
19:45
Women's Football - First Round Group G Colombia - DPR Korea
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25/7
19:45
Women's Football - First Round Group F Sweden - South Africa

Big stage for the women to show what they can do.

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LostBoy101 wrote: »

Any hot women to be looking out for?

I dunno, that wouldn't interest me!
Can we keep this to the football please?!

citytillidie

Mars Bar wrote: »

Some of you might not be aware but the Women's Olympic Football starts today with Group E Teams GB playing New Zealand at 4pm. (Groups A,B,C and D are the Men's groups)

Both BBC and Eurosport are showing the game. Coverage on Eurosport appears to finish at 9.45 so I'm assuming they are showing some of the other games also.

Today's Fixtures are



Big stage for the women to show what they can do.

All live on the Olympic channels on Sky

gimmick

I hear they have great fundamentals.

G.K.

GB better play Carney. Good player.

LuckyLloyd

The US to crush I would have thought.

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LuckyLloyd wrote: »

The US to crush I would have thought.

I'm hoping Japan 2 of Japan, U.S.A and Brazil reach the final.

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G.K. wrote: »

GB better play Carney. Good player.

GB brought a load of attackers didn't they? More attackers than defenders!

G.K.

Mars Bar wrote: »

I'm hoping Japan 2 of Japan, U.S.A and Brazil reach the final.

Likewise.

Mars Bar wrote: »

GB brought a load of attackers didn't they? More attackers than defenders!

They appear to have, yeah.

Ferris_Bueller

Is this the same as the mens, where the players have to be U.23? Also, which way did qualification work does anyone know?

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Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Is this the same as the mens, where the players have to be U.23? Also, which way did qualification work does anyone know?

As far as I'm aware, yes there's an U23 rule also.

Almost the same qualification as the mens except for European teams. The Women's World Cup determined the European qualification.

Japanese FA are bastards!

The Japanese woman's team took exception at having to fly economy class on a 13 hour flight to Europe, while the men's team flew business class. The Japanese FA said the men fly business class to the Olympics because they are professionals.

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That's funny in a 1950s kind of way.

ctrl-alt-delete

Caught a bit on the BBC this morning about it, if memory serves I'm sure they said the Women's game back in the day used to pull crowds of up to 50,000 then went on to say something about the FA banning them playing in stadiums or something to that effect, crazy!

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G.K gets his wish as Carney starts.

Team GB: Bardsley, A Scott, Houghton, Stoney (C), Dieke, J Scott, Asante, Carney, Aluko, Little, Smith

Guy:Incognito

Des wrote: »

That's funny in a 1950s kind of way.

Was there not a similar situation with the FAI a few years back? (players in cattle, big wigs in business), that is brought up as just another case of Roy Keane moaning when people are looking to give out about him?

Jax Teller

I'm nearly sure women can be any age in Olympic football .

Afaik Men's football is the only age discriminant sport in the Olympics .

Looks like someone had a spread bet on time of first throw-in. :pac:

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Coletrickle88 wrote: »

I'm nearly sure women can be any age in Olympic football .

Afaik Men's football is the only age discriminant sport in the Olympics .

You're right about this actually!

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Well the NZ keeper didn't cover herself in glory there did she?

Seems the goalkeeping hasn't improved much in the last 10 years anyway.

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It annoys me so much that goal keeping can be so ****e.

The two Scottish players didn't sing the National Anthem. Surely they could have come up with a more...universal (isn't the word I'm looking for) anthem?

Predalien

Scotland is part of Britain and the UK, and the anthem of the UK is God Save the Queen so can't see how they could have had something different.

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I thought God Save The Queen was just the English Anthem...

Close for GB there

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I was sure that was in!

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Mars Bar wrote: »

I thought God Save The Queen was just the English Anthem...

Close for GB there

In sports where the teams are separate (football and rugby) Wales and Scotland do indeed use different songs (Flower of Scotland and Land of My Fathers/Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau). But in sports where the whole of GB i represented, it's GSTQ.

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GB cack themselves in front of goal. Should be 2 or 3 up...

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Canada and Japan has kicked off on the BBC Olympic Channel no. 2

The pitch in Coventry Stadium looks to be immaculate.

ollie1

What a goal by France some strike.

ollie1

Now 2-0 France :eek: USA all over the place

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ollie1 wrote: »

What a goal by France some strike.

France 2 up against the U.S! :eek:

The game is on Eurosport for those looking for a more exciting game...

titan18

That was some lulz defending

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titan18 wrote: »

That was some lulz defending

Was like a bunch of kids down in the park...

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2-1! Abby Wambach the legend! She's a beast in the air...

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Team GB take the lead with a great free kick!

Bob the Seducer

That was Wambach's 139th international goal, catching up to Mia Hamm's record of 158.

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That's a shocking miss from New Zealand. Criminal!

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The U.S have brought it back to 2-2 now!

Bob the Seducer

Japan 1 -0 up against Canada

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Bob the Seducer wrote: »

Japan 1 -0 up against Canada

Brilliant finish too.

Bob the Seducer

Mars Bar wrote: »

Brilliant finish too.

Backheel from Ohno to Kawasumi on the edge of the six yard box, shot across goal into the top right.

Edit: Japan 2-0 up now.

Samich

Tried watching the first half of the GB game, really really hard to watch.

Also on the Japanese FA thing, I'd be interested to know for other countries who have professional athletes aswell as boxers (who are amateur) whether they fly the same class.

Mars Bar

Crap goal keeping contributes heavily to the Japanese second goal. What was McLeod thinking?!

Watch the U.S game Samich. It's on Eurosport.

Samich

Mars Bar wrote: »

Crap goal keeping contributes heavily to the Japanese second goal. What was McLeod thinking?!

Watch the U.S game Samich. It's on Eurosport.

No eurosport

It's pretty entertaining when there's goals like, just the first bit of action that was any good was when the GB player headed against the post.

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Samich wrote: »

No eurosport

It's pretty entertaining when there's goals like, just the first bit of action that was any good was when the GB player headed against the post.

You have access to BBC? I think they have it on the Red Button!

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What a goal for the U.S! Unfortunate for the French girl to fall after trying to get the ball down...

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Canada have pulled a goal back. It's odd, every time one team scores in one match, a team in the other match seems to score!

Guy:Incognito

Bob the Seducer wrote: »

That was Wambach's 139th international goal, catching up to Mia Hamm's record of 158.

The american's (men and women) seem to rack up a lot of caps. Loads of players on well over 100. Most Europeans are lucky to get near 100.

Samich

What was the goalie at there for France? Terrible

Bob the Seducer

4-2 USA now.

Guy:Incognito

Thats poor from the keeper.

Samich

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Thats poor from the keeper.

The goalies never seem to attack the ball, just hope they get hit by the ball more often than not.