Soccer At The Paris Olympics Begins Today Football games under Paris Olympics-2024 are starting from today. Although the opening of the 33rd Summer Olympics will be held in July i.e. next Thursday, some sports including football will start before then.
The football and rugby sevens matches will start today, while the archery and handball competitions will start on Wednesday.
The first match under men’s football today will be between Argentina and Morocco. The match between these two teams in Group B will start at 6 pm Nepali time at St. Etienne.
Under Group A, host France will play the USA in their first match today and the match between Guinea and New Zealand will also be played today.
Similarly, the matches between Uzbekistan and Spain Egypt and the Dominican Republic under group C and Japan and Paraguay and Mali and Israel under group D will also start today.
Only 16 men’s and 12 women’s teams are participating in the Paris Olympics. The men’s side will be divided into four groups and the women’s side will be divided into three groups.
Earlier, Brazil won the gold in the Tokyo Olympics in Japan in 2021, but this time, Brazil did not qualify for the Olympics.
Argentina won the Copa America and Spain won the Eurocup some time ago. However, the U-23 team will compete in the Olympics, in which there will be only 3 players above 23 years of age.
The young star Julian Alvarez, who has won the World Cup and Copa America titles, is in Argentina’s Olympic team. Similarly, Spain has players like Fermin Lopez, Eric Garcia, and Alex Baena.
The home team is playing under the captaincy of France striker Lacazette. Kylian Mbappe, captain of the senior team, will not play in the Paris Olympics. Mbappe did not get the opportunity to play in the Olympics at home after his new club Real Madrid said they would not allow their club’s players to participate in the Olympics.
