Great Britain women's Olympic football team

A British football team for women does not exist because of the traditional autonomy of the football associations of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales officially. However, it took as Great Britain women's Olympic football team (or team GB) to the 2012 Olympic Games in London in part.

  • 3.1 Reserve players

Four associations

Unlike other countries there are in the United Kingdom traditionally not a football association, but four:

All four organizations play from their own championships and have their own national soccer teams for men and women in different age groups. These four teams are eligible independently for World and European Championships.

Because while there are a British citizen, but no English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, there is no state definition of who is English, Scottish, Welsh or Nordirin. For the four football associations that a Briton can only play in one of the four teams, namely the association of their home country. As the home country is the part of the United Kingdom, in which they, their parents or their grandparents were born. Should this occur several home countries in question, or is the player, their parents or their grandparents born outside the United Kingdom, they may opt for one of the four associations. Since 2009 also provides at least five years of schooling in the corresponding region for player eligibility. Once a player has played one match, a change is no longer possible, appointments for student teams represent an exception.

The Olympic Team

Since the International Olympic Committee, in contrast to FIFA and UEFA on a team per country, it is not possible for the four British national teams to participate in the Olympic Games.

So Brazil was in 1996 nominated instead of England and in 2008 established Denmark and Sweden the third European participants after England had cut off as the third best European team in serving as qualifying soccer Women's World Cup 2007. In the intervening games no British team failed to qualify.

The Olympic Football Tournament 2012 in London

The 2012 Olympics were held in London, and it formed a considerable political pressure that the host country that regards itself as the home of football, was also represented at the tournament. The four football associations reacted differently to this proposal. While England and Northern Ireland agreed in principle to Wales behaved rather dismissive. In contrast, the Scottish Football Association rejected a British professional team strictly and did not participate in the discussions. It was feared that putting up a British national could soften the special status of the four British football associations.

In June 2011 was finally decided that both the men and the women a British team would compete, which should be composed of all four associations. Before that FIFA had assured that participation in the Olympic football tournament would have no effect on the four British associations autonomy and independence. The organization of the Team GB team defeated the English Association FA.

Squad

On June 28, the coach of the English national football team of women was by Hope Powell, named the squad for the Olympic Games. She grabbed overwhelmingly on players in the England team back that had already been used at the World Cup 2007 and / or 2011 and had international experience via their clubs. There were three Scottish players, including one as a spare and the Northern Ireland goalkeeper, which was also nominated only as a substitute. From Wales no player was nominated.

Reserve players

Games

For the Olympics Great Britain was set as group head of Group E and Brazil, Cameroon and New Zealand drawn against. On 20 July 2012, the team played a friendly match against Sweden at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough. The three group matches, the team could win without conceding GB and moved as group winners to reach the quarter -finals. There they defeated the Canadian team and was eliminated without medal. The audience of 70 584 in the third group game is the so far highest number of audience of a British women's team and also was initially the highest number of audience at a women's football match in Britain. She was treated with 80 203 but still exceeded in the final game between the U.S. and Japan.

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