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Watch Olympics 2012 Football Live Streaming Online. Argentina would be trying to get 3 gold running and both Hungary and Great Britain would both be seeking gold medal no.4 in the men’s 2012 Olympic football Olympics in London. In 2008 Argentina carry home the goal with a 1 nil victory over Nigeria, Brazil came in third. Providing Argentina wins the gold medal in 2012, it would be the first time in the history of Olympic football a team has 3 consecutive gold medals. The first football event is the World Cup. Football enthusiast only have the pleasure of the World Cup every five years, thus Olympic football brings out the world’s greatest countries in between and it stays an extremely popular event at the Games.
he Women’s football has only been a part of the Olympic Games since 1996, but the United States team has made itself as a force, winning gold in 1996, 2004, and 2008, and in 2000 silver. Awaiting the Argentina men’s team to finish first place, the women’s team of United States might pull off the first Olympic football 3 time repeat for either the women or men in the London 2012 Olympics. It also would be the first time a team is able to medal 5 times consecutively.
Conventional football rules states: the goalie is the only player who may use her/his arm or hands to touch the ball in only a specified area, the game lasts for 90 minutes, players should make a sincere effort to go after the ball and not simply try to trip the person having the ball when making a tackle, fouls give a free kick to the other team, fouls within the penalty box is a penalty kick, if a member of the team passes the ball to the goalkeeper, he/she may not make contact with his/her hands on the ball. In first round Olympic competition, the game finish after 90 minutes and each team is attributed with either a draw, loss or a win. As of the quarterfinal rounds forward the games are in sudden-death, which means that the team to shoot a goal first in overtime is named the winner, if none of the team scores in two 15-minute overtime period, each team will do a penalty kick until someone looses a shot.
Both Argentina and Brazil are the runaway favourites to contend for the men’s gold medal, though Nigeria came through in 2008 with a shocking silver medal finish. Germany, Uruguay, Spain and Great Britain are also figure to contend for a medal and you can wager that the British fans will stack high expectations on their team. The British will be seeking to re-institute themselves as a force to reckon with after turning in an awfully poor performance at the FIFA World Cup 2010. Brazil and Germany are expected to provide the United States women’s team some trouble although the US has been a powerhouse from the beginning.
Venues: City of Coventry Stadium, (Coventry); Hampden Park (Glasgow); Millennium Stadium (Cardiff); Old Trafford (Manchester); St James’ Park (Newcastle); Wembley Stadium
Dates: Wednesday 25 July – Saturday 11 August
Medal events: 2
Athletes: 504 (288 men, 216 women; 16 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams).
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