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This may sound weird, but am I the only one who really does not give the slighest damn about the olympics football tournament? I think it is quite worthless and totally uninteresting unless you are the type of football fan who wants to watch daily games regardless of their importance.
Why I consider it a tournament that means nothing:
- the real tournament that decides the best NT in the world, is the World Cup. There, teams send their best players and are motivated to the extreme.
- at the Olympics, teams cannot even select their best line-up due to age restrictions. On top of that, because the World Cup is rated a lot higher, many players simply don't care (just look at the ones who try to get out of the olympic squad to be able to play Champions League qualifiers)
I think if they really want to have the Olympics football tournament have more than just a symbolic value, then they need to merge the olympics and the World Cup so that the World Cup football becomes part of the Olympics. Cannot be that hard because both are organised every 4 years. Only in this circumstance, FAs will make the olympics a priority and it would be the biggest sporting event in the world.
Now, to me the olympics football is not more relevant than the average FA organising a small tournament to celebrate an event: nice for those who want to see as many games as they can, but in fact not much more important than the odd friendly game.
I have not really got a clue which teams qualified for the olympics, or which players to look forward to. The reason for not doing my research is a total lack of attraction to this tournament. Football is not really an olympic sport anymore because World Cup and such have become much more important. This is a huge contrast to sports such as athletics, tennis, etc where players still see the Olympic Games as one of the highest possible goals in their career ; in football this is not the case because other tournaments such as Champions League and World Cup became a lot more important.
Why I consider it a tournament that means nothing:
- the real tournament that decides the best NT in the world, is the World Cup. There, teams send their best players and are motivated to the extreme.
- at the Olympics, teams cannot even select their best line-up due to age restrictions. On top of that, because the World Cup is rated a lot higher, many players simply don't care (just look at the ones who try to get out of the olympic squad to be able to play Champions League qualifiers)
I think if they really want to have the Olympics football tournament have more than just a symbolic value, then they need to merge the olympics and the World Cup so that the World Cup football becomes part of the Olympics. Cannot be that hard because both are organised every 4 years. Only in this circumstance, FAs will make the olympics a priority and it would be the biggest sporting event in the world.
Now, to me the olympics football is not more relevant than the average FA organising a small tournament to celebrate an event: nice for those who want to see as many games as they can, but in fact not much more important than the odd friendly game.
I have not really got a clue which teams qualified for the olympics, or which players to look forward to. The reason for not doing my research is a total lack of attraction to this tournament. Football is not really an olympic sport anymore because World Cup and such have become much more important. This is a huge contrast to sports such as athletics, tennis, etc where players still see the Olympic Games as one of the highest possible goals in their career ; in football this is not the case because other tournaments such as Champions League and World Cup became a lot more important.