The draws for the men’s and women’s soccer competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place next month.
The draw for the Olympic Games will take place in Paris, France, on March 20 at 8 p.m. local time (4 a.m. ET on March 21), the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) announced today.
Sixteen men’s nations and 12 women’s nations will compete at the Paris Olympic Football Festival, which will take place from July 24 to August 10 in seven 카지노사이트 French cities (Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Saint-Etienne, Lyon).
South Korea, who will be looking to qualify for their 10th consecutive Olympic Games on the men’s side, will be looking ahead to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-23 Asian Cup in April as a regional qualifier.
The South Korean Olympic soccer team, led by head coach Hwang Sun-hong, was drawn in Group B with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), China, and Japan. The tournament is a knockout stage with the top two teams from each of the four groups advancing.
The top three finishers will advance directly to the knockout stage, while the fourth-place finisher will face a playoff against a Confederation of African Football (CAF) member nation.
Hwang’s squad traveled to Turkuye in January for a training camp, where they played five practice matches against European club teams to test their organization.
In addition to the existing Olympic squad, Hwang Sun-hong also called up last year’s FIFA U-20 World Cup quarterfinalists Lee Seung-won (Gangwon), Lee Young-joon (Gimcheon Sangmu), Hwang In-taek (Estoril Praia, Portugal) and Park Ho-min (Bucheon FC 1995) to check up on the team.
The South Korean women’s national soccer team, led by head coach Colleen Bell, were eliminated in the second round of Asian qualifying in October and November last year, ending their dream of qualifying for their first-ever Olympic Games.
In men’s soccer, 12 nations, including three Asian teams and the winners of the Asia-Africa playoffs, have qualified for the tournament.
Joining host France are the United States, Dominican Republic, Spain, Israel, Ukraine, Morocco, Egypt, Mali, New Zealand, Paraguay, and Argentina.
In women’s soccer, France, the United States, Brazil, Colombia, Canada, New Zealand, and Spain have punched their tickets to Paris, with two more teams from Asia and Africa still to be determined.
The Asian qualifiers will conclude later this month, while the African qualifiers will continue through April. Hwang Sun-hong’s first match at the Asian Cup will be against the UAE on April 17 at 12:30 a.m. at the Abdullah Bin Khalifa Stadium in Doha, Qatar.
According to FIFA, the Paris Games will feature a women’s final for the first time in Olympic soccer history.
From the 1996 Atlanta Games, when only men’s soccer was played at the Olympics, to the last Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020, the women’s final was always held first, followed by the men’s final.