Today, from 4 p.m. in Argentina, the draw for the Paris 2024 Olympic Football Tournaments. The event will take place at the headquarters of the Olympic Games, located in the Le Pulse building in the French capital.
The teams that have already qualified for the women’s tournament (which will face twelve teams) and the men’s tournament (which will measure 16) will meet their first rivals in the competition, which will be held from July 26 to August 11.
The Olympic football tournaments will be held in Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Saint-Étienne and Lyon from July 24 – two days before the opening ceremony – to August 10, the day on which the finalists of the women’s competition will compete for gold. In fact, it will be the first time in history that the Olympic Games will close with the women’s football final.
Will be present at the drawing ceremony Javier Saviola, former Argentine player, along with the Ivorian Didier Drogba and the French athlete Marie-José Pérec as representatives of the world of sports.
In the men’s team, twelve of the 16 representatives are known, pending the U-23 Asia Cup, which will end on May 3.
The first three of that competition will directly integrate the draw, while the fourth will play for the last place against Guinea, on a date not yet revealed.
The France of Thierry Henry, as the organizing country, Javier Mascherano’s Argentina and two of the Asian teams will be seededaccording to a points system distributed based on the results of past Games.
Spain will be in the second pot, finalist of the last edition, New Zealand, Paraguaysilver in Athens 2004, and Morocco, while The third includes the United States, Egypt, Mali and the third Asian nation.
Finally, The fourth includes the Dominican Republic, debutant in the Games, Israel, Ukraine and the winner of the play-off between the fourth Asian team and Guinea.
The two African nations are missing from the women’s draw, which will be decided in the final qualifying round in early April, pitting Zambia against Morocco and Nigeria against South Africa.
France as host, Spain, champion of the world and the recent League of Nations, and the United States, gold in Atlanta 1996, Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012, will be the seeds.
In the second pot are Germany, bronze in the recent Nations League and gold in Rio 2016, Japan, silver in London 2012, and Canada, defending champion.
The third includes Brazil, champion of the women’s Copa América in 2022 and silver in Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, and Colombia, finalist of the women’s Copa América, in addition to Australia, while the fourth includes New Zealand and the two African teams .
The matches of the Olympic football tournament will be played in seven stadiums. The Parc des Princes in Paris will host both finals, on August 9 and 10, while La Beaujoire in Nantes will host the men’s bronze and Parc OL de Lyon for the women’s.
They are joined by the Marseille Velodrome, the Allianz in Nice, the Matmut in Bordeaux and the Geoffroy-Guichard in Saint-Etienne.
Source: Ambito
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