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Olympics
Topic Started: Jul 3 2008, 05:09 PM (1,453 Views)
Kem
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Euro 2008 isnt the only football tournament this summer, obviously the Olympics arent on the same level, but there is more football to watch and that is what counts :lol: Anyways the Olympics are an U-23 tournament, but each team is allowed up to 3 over age players to bring into the team.

The Groups are:

A: Serbia, Argentina, Australia, Ivory Coast
B: Holland, Nigeria, USA, Japan
C: China, Brazil, Belgium, New Zealand
D: South Korea, Honduras, Cameroon, Italy
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Jenna
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Mascherano is being taken as an over 23 player. Argentina have one hell of a squad.

Argentina squad.

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Goalkeepers: Oscar Ustari (Getafe), Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar); Defenders: Pablo Zabaleta (Espanyol), Luciano Monzon (Boca Juniors), Ezequiel Garay (Real Madrid), Nicolas Burdisso (Internazionale), Federico Fazio (Sevilla), Lautaro Acosta (Sevilla); Midfielders: Fernando Gago (Real Madrid), Juan Roman Riquelme (Boca Juniors), Ever Banega (Valencia), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool), Jose Sosa (Bayern Munich); Forwards: Diego Buonanotte (River Plate), Sergio Aguero (Atletico Madrid), Lionel Messi (Barcelona), Ezequiel Lavezzi (Napoli), Angel Di Maria (Benfica)


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Kem
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Italy squad:
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Abate (Milan), Acquafresca (Cagliari), Bocchetti (Genoa), Candreva (Udinese), Cigarini (Parma), Coda (Udinese), Consigli (Atalanta), Criscito (Genoa), De Ceglie (Juventus), De Silvestri (Lazio), Dessena (Parma), Giovinco (Juventus), Marchisio (Juventus), Montolivo (Fiorentina), Motta (Udinese), Nocerino (Palermo), Ranocchia (Arezzo), Rocchi (Lazio), Rossi (Villarreal), Russotto (Treviso), Sirigu (Palermo), Viviano (Brescia)


Rocchi is the only overage player. there are a few other very good already established players though, De Silvestri, Giovinco, Montolivo, Nocerino, and Rossi are the ones I think are very good though i admit i havent seen them all play before so there may be others.

They also named a 15 man shortlist of players who can be called into the squad:
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Alfonso (Venezia), Bassi (Empoli), Curci (Siena), Andreolli (Vicenza), Canini (Cagliari), Marzoratti (Empoli), Pisano (Cagliari), M Rossi (Parma), Bolzoni (Inter), Galloppa (Siena), Guarente (Atalanta), Morosini (Vicenza), Lanzafame (Palermo), Osvaldo (Fiorentina), Pelle’ (AZ Alkmaar)
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thatgooner
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I'm still bitter about Rossi choosing to play for Italy rather than the US.
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Kem
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me too, but im trying to get over it. maybe jozy will show him up at villareal ^_^
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Blaaaaa, my country didn't make it into this, surprise surprise. :rolleyes:

Go Italy, then. Feck the rest.
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Angie88
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WOOT! Gago for Argentina, watching the Argentina this coming months! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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I see Japan slaughtered already, and there will be no korokoro :(
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Kem
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USA squad:

GOALKEEPERS (2):

Brad Guzan (Chivas USA)
Chris Seitz (Real Salt Lake)

DEFENDERS (5):

Patrick Ianni (Houston Dynamo)
Michael Orozco (San Luis)
Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution)
Nathan Sturgis (Real Salt Lake)
Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC)

MIDFIELDERS (7):

Freddy Adu (SL Benfica)
Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen)
Maurice Edu (Toronto FC)
Benny Feilhaber (Derby County)
Stuart Holden (Houston Dynamo)
Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA)
Danny Szetela (Brescia Calcio)

FORWARDS (4):

Jozy Altidore (Villarreal)
Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF)
Brian McBride (out of contract)
Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)

ALTERNATES (4):

Goalkeeper: Dominic Cervi (Out of Contract)
Defender: Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew)
Midfielder: Dax McCarty (FC Dallas)
Forward: Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake)
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Japan's Squad

GK
Shusaku Nishikawa - Oita Trinita (J1)
Kaito Yamamoto - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1)

DF
Hiroki Mizumoto - Kyoto Sanga F.C. (J1)
Masato Morishige - Oita Trinita (J1)
Yuto Nagatomo - FC Tokyo (J1)
Michihiro Yasuda - Gamba Osaka (J1)
Atsuto Uchida - Kashima Antlers (J1)
Maya Yoshida - Nagoya Grampus (J1)

MF
Takuya Honda - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1)
Hiroyuki Taniguchi - Kawasaki Frontale (J1)
Yohei Kajiyama - FC Tokyo (J1)
Keisuke Honda - VVV Venlo (Netherlands)
Hajime Hosogai - Urawa Reds (J1)
Shinji Kagawa - Cerezo Osaka (J2)

FW
Yohei Toyoda - Montedio Yamagata (J2)
Tadanari Lee - Kashiwa Reysol (J1)
Takayuki Morimoto - Catania (Italy)
Shinji Okazaki - Shimizu S-Pulse (J1)


LOL, just wanted to put the squad list on, since Kem did. Japan decided not to put any underage players.

Australian Squad list

FOOTBALL

Men

John Aloisi (SA)

Alex Brosque (NSW)

Tim Cahill (NSW)

Shane Cansdell-Sherriff (NSW)

Anthony Danze (WA)

Spase Dilevski (Vic)

Ahmad Elrich (NSW)

Eugen Galekovic (Vic)

Ryan Griffiths (NSW)

Brett Holman (NSW)

Bradley Jones (WA)

Adrian Madaschi (WA)

Jonathan McKain (Qld)

Craig Moore (NSW)

Jade North (NSW)

David Tarka (WA)

Carl Valeri (ACT)

Luke Wilkshire (NSW)
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Kem
Jul 18 2008, 01:25 AM
USA squad:

GOALKEEPERS (2):

Brad Guzan (Chivas USA)
Chris Seitz (Real Salt Lake)

DEFENDERS (5):

Patrick Ianni (Houston Dynamo)
Michael Orozco (San Luis)
Michael Parkhurst (New England Revolution)
Nathan Sturgis (Real Salt Lake)
Marvell Wynne (Toronto FC)

MIDFIELDERS (7):

Freddy Adu (SL Benfica)
Michael Bradley (SC Heerenveen)
Maurice Edu (Toronto FC)
Benny Feilhaber (Derby County)
Stuart Holden (Houston Dynamo)
Sacha Kljestan (Chivas USA)
Danny Szetela (Brescia Calcio)

FORWARDS (4):

Jozy Altidore (Villarreal)
Charlie Davies (Hammarby IF)
Brian McBride (out of contract)
Robbie Rogers (Columbus Crew)

ALTERNATES (4):

Goalkeeper: Dominic Cervi (Out of Contract)
Defender: Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew)
Midfielder: Dax McCarty (FC Dallas)
Forward: Robbie Findley (Real Salt Lake)
If I'm not mistaken, didn't Guzan sign with Aston Villa
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Yeah he just signed with Villa a few days ago....another American keeper in the prem!

When I heard that McBride was going to be in the squad it made my day! One of my all-time favorite footballers! :D
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Kem
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azrebel86
Jul 18 2008, 02:56 AM
Yeah he just signed with Villa a few days ago....another American keeper in the prem!

When I heard that McBride was going to be in the squad it made my day! One of my all-time favorite footballers! :D
yeah he did, i guess they made the list before, all i did was copy and paste lol

I know! me too, i was soo happy to see him listed for the USA again.
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Brazil are playing Singapore on Monday. The team just arrived here yesterday and OMG. My friend saw Pato. *squishes*
I really really want to watch the bloody match, even though we're going to get whipped. My cousin has 2 free tickets and he's asking me but I have an exam the next day. Screw life. <_<
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:O Charlie Davies is in the USA squad?!! he's been pretty good this season. I've never seen him in the NT though, and i don't think he'll get to play that much
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