Undoubtedly soccer is the world’s biggest game. Sure the World Cup, F.A Cup or UEFA cup may draw more interest but for all the teams competing in this year’s Beijing Olympics there will be some very determined players who want to win that gold medal.
The soccer games of the Beijing Olympic Games will be held from August 6-23, 2008 in five cities including the host city of Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, Tianjin and Qinhuangdao. The finals for men and women will be held in Beijing where three venues are located: the Workers’ Stadium, the Olympic Sports Center Stadium and the National Stadium. The venues outside Beijing are: Shanghai Stadium, Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium, Shenyang Olympic Sport Center Stadium, and Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium. These state of the art stadiums will provide spectators with a great facility to enjoy the games.
Football was first introduced in 1900 and 1904 as an exhibition sport and became the first team sport included in the Olympic Games. Since 1908, the sport has been held at every Olympic Games with the exception of 1932 in Los Angeles. The European teams dominated the Olympics until 1992, when Spain became the last European team to win a gold medal.
Women’s football was introduced in 1996 in Atlanta where the USA won the gold medal in and then again in Athens in 2004.
The competition allows for three players over the age of 23 to compete. Although a prestigious event, many of the world best players will not play due to contractual obligations with their own professional teams. They also do not want to risk getting an injury and often have pressure placed on them by their team managers who do not want them to play in the games.
The sixteen qualified nations for the men’s event are: Australia, Japan, Korea Republic, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Serbia, Honduras, United States of America, New Zealand, Brazil, Argentina, and the host country of China.
The four men’s groups are as follows: Group A includes Cote d’Ivoire, Argentina, Australia and Serbia. Group B includes the Netherlands, Nigeria, Japan and Argentina. Group C includes China, New Zealand, Brazil and Belgium. Group D includes Korea Republic, Cameroon, and Honduras.
The tournament will be organized into group stages until they reach the quarter-final round will result in losing teams being knocked out of the competition. All four teams that make the semi finals will determine who wins the medals with the fourth team missing out.
Group stage matches will begin on August 7th with the quarter finals on August 16th, the semi finals on August 19th, the loser’s final on August 22nd and the winner’s final to be held on August 23rd.
The women’s tournament consists of 12 teams, four more than they had in Athens. Group E consists of China, Sweden, Argentina and Canada. Group F includes Korea DPR, Nigeria, Germany, and Brazil. Group G includes Norway, United States of America, Japan and New Zealand.
Most of the major soccer games will be broadcasted by the television networks. However, as usual each country will be likely to choose only those games where they have their own national team competing.
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How To Prep for a Soccer Tournament?I have a tournament this weekend in Virginia Beach it's a pretty big thing for me and I'm leaving a day early. It's outdoor and if there's bad weather, it's migrating to indoor. Either way we're wearing cleats, what can I do to prepare?
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yea europe is so better than the us ha sike
Carbohydrates definitely, but make sure they're eaten an hour prior to the game, anything closer to kick-off may repeat on them and/or slow them down. Muffins would be a great idea, banana muffins will be superb as bananas are meant to be terrific for all sports performers. Also anything with sugar would also help, but in portions obviously.
Basically nothing to heavy as they are running around such as havey meats. Fruits and Veges, Carbos and Sugars are perfect. After the game, I think a couple cold ones will do
I would train as usual because the more worked up you get the worse you play. Don't put it in full mode practicing. Just practice about half an hour more than you usually do. No need to get all worked up about it.
It's going to take more than four days to build up your stamina. When you're playing in the tournament don't over do it. Don't try playing the entire match.
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In high school soccer there is no distinction between regular season games and tournaments. The red card will carry over to your next game regardless of if it's a tournament game or not. Cards only count on the same playing level. So if you got a card in a JV game, you would still be able to play in a varsity game.
I would check with either your coach or athletic director. Although refs are supposed to report ALL cards, sometimes cards in tournaments aren't reported. If it wasn't reported, don't worry about.
it is the U-21 Toulon Torunament or something idk how to spell it
Hey there, I've organized several futsal (indoor soccer) tourneys in the past so I'll try my best to give you a few pointers.
There are 3 main aspects of organizing this tournament: Participation, Cost and Promotion.
PARTICIPATION
It depends on how many teams you're anticipating. Ideally 8, 16 or even 32(too many) would be a nice figure.
Then set up the schedules in a grouping format (4 per group) with the top 2 from each group heading to the knock-out stages. The grouping format gives the best level of satisfaction for participants because each team gets to play a minimum of 3 games.
The time allocation should be 7-1-7 (7 mins per half). Thats just a suggestion, 5 minutes or 10 minutes may also be applied.
With this format a 8-16 team tournament will take you 6-10 hours, with substantial breaks in between. Is that too long?
It's up to you to decide, maybe reducing game time, or having less knock-out games.
COST
The main part of the budget is usually the rental of the court and equipment.
*If you've gotta a free court/field, then all the better.
From here you must calculate the participation fees, taking into consideration how much you are targeting to raise.
– Remember, the participants satisfaction is always first priority, so whatever you plan to charge for participation, you must give back in other forms.
Compulsory items for the budget would also include medals for the top 3, as well as water for the teams. My suggestion would be giving consolation prizes to all the teams who made it to the knock-out stages, as well as giving a token of appreciation to all participating teams, for supporting your fund-raising efforts.
Good forms of prizes would be hampers for the teams (ranging in sizes).
Another idea would be recognition of the Golden Boot(top scorer), Best Player, or Best Keeper. All up to u, HAHA
As this may turn out to be a big event (I wouldn't know), what you can do is apply for sponsors from local companies. It will be good publicity for them too.
PROMOTION
How successful you tournament will be, will depend on its format, and how you promote it. Get more people involved, and it should be a big hit.
For example, having the Guys' team help out wouldn't hurt a bit!
As for the food, I would suggest opening up tenders. Your friends can come by and open stalls, while paying rental fees. The usual stalls would be snacks, drinks, popcorn, hotdogs… etc2.
If the tournament were to be very long (which may not be so good, if you're just playing for fun), the stalls should also sell heavier meals, such as lunch menus. Burgers, etc. Remember that there will be very hungry spectators around too!
I think I've stated more or less everything you'd need to know about organizing a simple soccer 5-a-side. For info on rules, do surf the FIFA website.
Good luck!
draw a soccor field with the balll and some players
no tactics, just play
Good luck, they're probably isn't one…