The men’s football tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will have 16 participating teams and we already know all of them: France as an organizerUSA and Dominican Republic by ConcacafEgypt, Mali, Morocco and Guinea for Africa, New Zealand by Oceania; Spain, Ukraine and Israel by UEFA; Argentina and Paraguay by Conmebol; Japan, Uzbekistan and Iraq through Asia.
Although the opening ceremony will be on July 26, Football will start on the 24thtwo days earlier, and will end on August 10 (one day before the closing ceremony), following the schedule of the previous Olympic Games. 90min We show you who could be the main figures of the qualified teams.
The recently transferred former MLS player is the captain of the national team coached by Javier Mascherano. Little by little he has earned an important place in the youth team. He was runner-up in the South American Under-20 Championship and currently he also achieved the runner-up position in the South American pre-Olympic tournament held in Venezuela that gave us qualification for Paris 2024.
In September 2022, he made his debut with the senior Argentine national team and two months later he was called up to the 2022 World Cup after Joaquín Correa was injured. He played one match at Qatar 2022, coming on in the 84th minute for Alexis Mac Allister in the 2-0 win over Poland in the third match of the group stage. He did not play any more minutes in the tournament, but was part of the team that won the third world title for the “Albiceleste”, adding the world champion’s medal to his list of achievements.
His debut, at 16 years and 110 days old, made him the youngest player to play an official match for Rennes, a record previously held by Eduardo Camavinga. On 26 July 2022, he signed a five-year contract with Bayern Munich. The German club bought him from Rennes for a fee of 28.5 million euros.
He was crowned champion of the U17 European Championship held in Israel in 2022, being the captain of the team. He is in Thierry Henry’s plans with the French youth team to be the star at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
The captain who won the pre-Olympic tournament in Venezuela was the tournament’s top scorer along with Thiago Almada and Luciano Rodriguez. Inter Miami bought his transfer to the Olimpia club and he became Lionel Messi’s new teammate in 2023 to start a new season in the MLS.
Coach Marko Mitrovic has already announced the list of players who will compete in the Olympic Games and the Italian Serie B midfielder is among the list. In October 2019, he was part of the United States U-17 team that played in the 2019 U-17 World Cup in Brazil. The former Kansas City player won the Concacaf Gold Cup in 2021 and is one of the promising players in the North American team.
The team managed by Santi Denia is coming off a runner-up finish in the U-21 European Championship when they lost the final 1-0 to England. The coach has a serious problem putting together the list of players for Paris 2024. Only nine of the 23 players who have qualified will be able to compete in the French capital. The rule is clear: they must be 23 years old or younger to be eligible to be called up.
One of the few strikers who follows the rule is Sergio Gomez. The current Manchester City striker is one of the stars of the Spanish national team, he was champion in the U-17 European Championship held in Croatia, champion of the U-19 European Championship in Armenia and runner-up in the last U-21 European Championship.
He is the number 10 of the current Israel U-21 team and one of the great promises. He began his career at Maccabi Tel Aviv FC. He played for just one season and then in 2023 he became the new player of Red Bull Salzburg. In his first season in the Austrian league he won the championship title and was recognized as the tournament’s breakthrough player.
The current Chelsea FC player was one of the biggest transfer bombs of 2022 when the London club paid 70 million euros to Skahktar to sign the striker. He has played for the Ukraine national football team under the age of 17, under the age of 19 and under the age of 21.
The Dominican Republic U-20 soccer team qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games by beating Guatemala 4-2 on penalties (2-2 in 120 minutes), in the first semifinal of the Concacaf Men’s Pre-World Cup to be held in Honduras in 2022.
Edison Azcona is a teammate of Lionel Messi at the MLS club and together with the Argentine world champion he managed to win the first title in the club’s history when he won the Leagues Cup.
The Moroccan national team won the African Cup of Nations under-23, beating Egypt 2-1 in the final. The star striker of Real Betis has played for several clubs in the Spanish League, including Barcelona. He played three games in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and achieved a historic qualification for Paris 2024, where he is set to be a starter for the team.
The team secured their qualification after beating Fiji 9-0, with five goals from Riley Bidois, in the final of the Oceania pre-Olympic tournament.
He was voted the best player at the African Cup of Nations under-23. He is currently a player for Pyramids FC, having arrived in 2018 and since then having been runner-up twice in the Egyptian Premier League and the Cup.
Mali’s national team secured their third and final Olympic berth after beating Guinea in the U-23 African Cup of Nations for third place. Their star player and number “9” Doumbia is currently a player for Shabab Al Ahli Dubai, the last champion of the United Arab Emirates football league.
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