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The German women's football team qualified for the Olympics by reaching the top three for European teams at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup in Canada. [50] Team roster. Head coach: Silvia Neid. Germany named a squad of 18 players and 4 alternates for the tournament, which was announced on 15 July 2016. [51]
The men's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held in Rio de Janeiro and five other cities in Brazil from 4 to 20 August 2016. [1] It was the 26th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament .
Brazil took the lead through a first-half free kick from Neymar, the senior team captain and one of the Brazilian players who had lost the gold medal match in the London 2012 Olympic tournament against Mexico at Wembley. Opposing German captain Max Meyer then equalised in the second half for Germany with a half-volley off a cross. Neither team ...
The association football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 3 to 20 August in Brazil. [1]In addition to the Olympic host city of Rio de Janeiro, matches were played in Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Salvador, São Paulo, and Manaus.
Since the Olympic men's football was restricted to an under-23 tournament in 1992, Brazil had played in only one gold medal match, losing to Mexico in 2012. Germany, as a unified team or country, played in their first ever Olympic gold medal match. However, the former East Germany senior team won in 1976, before losing to Czechoslovakia in 1980.
Group C of the men's football tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics was played from 4 to 10 August 2016, and included Fiji, Germany, Mexico and South Korea. The top two teams advanced to the knockout stage. [1] All times are BRT . [2]
The 2016 Summer Olympics (Portuguese: Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), [C] officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad (Portuguese: Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 3 August.
A Germany squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Germany was reunified in 1990, and the 1992 Olympics saw another rule change: football squads would be made up of players under the age of 23, with three overage players allowed. On 23 June 2015 Germany was qualified for the first time after reunification for the 2016 Olympic games.