Olympic Football: Is it worth bothering?
The London Olympics get under way next week, and for some sportsmen and women competing at the games is the ultimate pinnacle of their sport. However, the same can hardly be said about the football tournament. With a breathtaking European Championships just gone, and a new football season on the horizon , surely the Olympics football tournament is more of a distraction than anything else.
Ask any of the Chelsea squad if they will swap their Champions League triumph for Olympic Gold medals and you won’t find many takers. The tournament itself is a glorified Under 23 competition with a sprinkling of golden oldies. Tickets are still on sale for most of the games as it would appear the appetite is not there.
Surely the Olympics should be a celebration of the sports which normally are confined to the late-night backwaters of Channel 5 or Eurosport and get little to no media coverage. Football is the most played sport in the world, however with the World Cup and Continental championships already celebrating the best of the best internationally speaking, why bother with the Olympics?
For the simple reason of it offers the players more competition experience to the players who will be pushing for the next world cup, two many of our players lack that killer competition instinct that is so needed in major competitions to instill it in them before the major tournaments. The argentine and brazillian teams love to have there players play in the olympics. It offers the players to gain that killer instinct the british teams so lack. You view of the olympic football is limited as is British footballs hope of progressing until minds like yours stop having so much power in the british game.
For the simple reason of it offers the players more competition experience to the players who will be pushing for the next world cup, two many of our players lack that killer competition instinct that is so needed in major competitions to instill it in them before the major tournaments. The argentine and brazillian teams love to have there players play in the olympics. It offers the players to gain that killer instinct the british teams so lack. You view of the olympic football is limited as is British footballs hope of progressing until minds like yours stop having so much power in the british game.
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