This year the greatest show on earth, the London 2012 Olympic Games, comes to the UK. If you are based in Manchester, you have a unique opportunity to watch a major Olympic sport right here! Old Trafford will be hosting nine Olympic football matches between 26th July and 7th August. The matches include a men's semi-final, a women's semi-final and the first appearance by the Great Britan men's

With the Olympics looming ever closer, understandably security will be a main concern for the London 2012 organizing committee. It looks as though they are on top of things in this respect, having carried out a security test in Scotland recently. The rehearsal took place at the semi-final of the Scottish Communities League Cup between Ayr and Kilmarnock, which the latter won in extra time, and involved fans.

The Manchester United goalkeeper seems set to undergo eye surgery in the summer, just after the end of the English Premiership campaign and just before Spain's Olympic football participation begins.

The goalkeeper is unlikely to be called up by Spain for the 2012 UEFA European Championships.

Stuart Pearce rules out picking Euro 2012 players and Newcastle want Wilfried Zaha

Great Britain's Olympic football team will be denied England's best players after Stuart Pearce announced that nobody involved in Euro 2012 will be considered for selection for the London Games.

Wales continued their recent run of impressive results with an emphatic four-one win over Norway at the Cardiff City Stadium. Goals from Gareth Bale, Craig Bellamy and Sam Vokes earned Wales their fourth win in five games. Whilst the team on the pitch overran their Scandinavian visitors, though, the fans in the ground were largely otherwise occupied, trying to make a stand against Team GB.

Team GB Olympic football dates announced

Stuart Pearce's men will open the campaign at Old Trafford

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There is some debate about whether football should have a place in the Olympics, given that it should be the height of any competitor's career. Does a footballer have too many higher priorities? Well who cares, the clobber looks decent. Despite the Welsh FA already revealing that they would be less than happy if their [.

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Why Hope Powell should be managing the MENS' Olympics football team as well as the women's

This morning, while laying somewhere between consciousness and its opposite, I thought for a moment that I'd entered a Utopian Wonderland where all things were equal and where everything was fair.

Better candidates than Beckam for Olympic captaincy - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Understandably, European nations often decline to participate in Olympic football competition. The alignment of their respective four year rotations means that UEFA's European Championships coincide with the Olympic Games.

Better candidates than Beckam for Olympic captaincy - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Understandably, European nations often decline to participate in Olympic football competition. The alignment of their respective four year rotations means that UEFA's European Championships coincide with the Olympic Games.

Danielle Warby Fresh from World Cup heroics, Matildas face Olympic cauldron - http://www.theage.com.au/sport... 4 hours ago from delicious - Comment - Like THE Matildas will have little time to savour their record-equalling FIFA World Cup performance, with a cut-throat Olympic football qualification tournament looming large in less than two months.

Danielle Warby Matildas preparing for Olympic qualifiers - http://www.theroar.com.au/2011... 4 hours ago from delicious - Comment - Like The Matildas will have little time to savour their record-equalling FIFA World Cup performance, with a cut-throat Olympic football qualification tournament looming large in less than two months.

A football team representing Great Britain at the 2012 London Olympics: a one-off concept that should have been fun, novel and exciting has withered into disdain and endless bickering. The ping-ponging of arguments from one FA to another is at fever-pitch at the moment and looks settle to rumble on like an uncooked curry in [.

The Scottish, Welsh and Irish FAs have denied claims from the British Olympic Association (BOA) that an "historic agreement" for a Great Britain Olympic football side was now in place.

The BOA said this "historic agreement" had been reached with the English Football Association over fielding teams at the 2012 Games.

It is a story made current by the Olympic Games coming to London at the end of next summer, but for those of us whose sporting interest lies firmly with football, which remains an event more peripheral than its ubiquity in every other corner of the world of sport would suggest, Steve Menary's new book, "GB United?

Excited about the 2012 Olympic soccer tournament?
Me neither, but a reminder if you are Europe-based to get your ticket applications in by midnight on Tuesday GMT. With all those big stadia unlikely to sell out at once, further sales are probable.
Games are taking place at Wembley, Old Trafford, St James Park, Hampden Park, the Millennium Stadium and Coventry's Ricoh Arena between July 25th and August 11th 2012.

LONDON, England The Great Britain Olympic football team may be forced to withdraw from the 2012 London Olympics completely if the FA board cannot come to a solution to the problems of fielding a side. It has been widely expected that Great Britain would field a combined side for the first time in [.

On the surface, the argument makes perfect sense football players, especially young football players should not be asked to play competitive football 11 months out of 12. By asking UEFA to mandate the national European FAs to only select players for one international tournament per season, the European Club Association (ECA) feels that they well prevent burnout / injuries in young prodigies, and thereby not only having them available at the start of each season but also prolonging their careers.