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From the 1992 Summer Olympics Football games always start before the opening ceremony because of the event's calendar which needs to be longer than other sports. Since 1996, football starts two days before the games opening ceremonies and since then it is a common condition for some sports.
19 years, 94 days, Cristiane ( Brazil), vs Greece, 17 August 2004. Youngest goalscorer, final 20 years, 196 days, Stina Blackstenius ( Sweden), vs Germany, 19 August 2016. Oldest hat-trick scorer 29 years, 55 days, Christine Sinclair ( Canada), vs United States, 6 August 2012. Oldest goalscorer, final
Starting with the first official football tournament in London in 1908, Denmark's Sophus Nielsen and Hungary's Antal Dunai share the record for the most total goals scored by a player in tournament history. Both have 13 goals: Nielsen scored 11 goals in 1908 and two in 1912, and Dunai scored six in 1968 and seven in 1972.
Indian captain Talimeren Ao (right) and French captain Gaby Robert (left) shaking hands before Swedish referee Gunnar Dahlner prior to the commencement of India's first Olympic match on 31 July 1948 against France. Football was first introduced as an Olympic sports at the Summer Olympic Games held in France in 1900.
The IFAF and the National Football League later backed a proposal to include flag football, a non-contact variation of the game, as a one-off event at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. [18] Flag football became a viable alternative for its limited contact, low costs, and accessibility to both men and women.
The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; French: Jeux olympiques) [a] [1] are the world's leading international sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games are considered the world's foremost sports competition ...
At the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, an unofficial football event was held on 12 April between two representative teams of Greece and Denmark at the Podilatodromio. [1] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not recognize the existence of an official football tournament at the 1896 Olympics and the majority of works devoted to the 1896 Olympic Games do not actually mention a football ...
Football introduced in France by English ... the gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games, ... fourth Ligue 1 title and their first in ten years. 2022 in football.