Football Discussion | Qualification to Summer Olympic Games Los Angeles 2028 Road to LA 2028

[NearPup 3,251]

3 hours ago, MatiReimundo said:

I would prefer the 12 teams tournament in both genders, and give the almost 80/90 quotas to a lot of sports. For example, 32 could go to 4 more teams in each gender in basket 3x3. Then, the 12 team qualification i will do it like this:

 

Host quota

gold medal of the previous olympic (-1 reduction to the confederation of the gold medal team)

3 to europe

1 oceania

2 south america

1 north america and caribe

1 africa

1 asia

1 playoff africa-asia

1 playoff of loser of africa-asia, 4th europe, 3th southamerica and 2nd north and caribe

 

and for the women probably the same changing south and north america quotas

The thing is, counting football players in the athlete quota doesn't even really make any sense. They don't stay in the village, and they bring in more revenue than they cost.

Like I get why people dislike the men's football tournament, but it would be an absolutely braindead move to remove it.

[NearPup 3,251]

12 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Wouldn't 8 be better then, if 16 is too much (which, especially for the men, it is)? Then you can at least have a decent format, for which you need 4, 8, 16 or 32 teams (well, or 64 or 128 ).

Obviously we need a 48 team Olympic tournament, since FIFA has discovered this is the optimal number.

[JoshMartini007 2,570]

2 hours ago, NearPup said:

The thing is, counting football players in the athlete quota doesn't even really make any sense. They don't stay in the village, and they bring in more revenue than they cost.

Like I get why people dislike the men's football tournament, but it would be an absolutely braindead move to remove it.

Pretty much. As much as some people hate the fact the men's tournament is u23, the bottom line is it still makes the IOC a lot of money. Likely the most out of any sport.

[Henry_Leon 1,443]

MD4 of WNL  won away in Denmark for the first time ever!! 

 

Final result 0 -  3 (Caruso, Di Guglielmo, Girelli)

 

Before last two matches :

1.   8 pts
2.   6 pts
3.   6 pts
4.   2 pts

 

 

[vovanA 196]

a nice story from Cyprus.

 

a popular Russian football blogger Evgeniy Savin established a football club Krasava (named after his blog, it means something like Cool fellow) in 2021. The next year Savin made an anti-war report, was declared wanted and had to flee. He moved team to Cyprus and it started playing in the second division. In the third season they promoted to the top Cyprus division. Not every day a blogger's team gets such promotion, especially in a foreign country