Welcome to the weird of world of men’s soccer at the Olympics. The world’s most popular sport occupies a strange space at the Games.
FILE - France’s Kylian Mbappe reacts during the international friendly soccer match between France and Canada at the Matmut Atlantique stadium in Bordeaux, southwestern France, Sunday, June 9, 2024. In the end, not even French president Emmanuel Macron could pull enough strings to free up his country’s finest soccer player to compete in the Paris Games.
The result is an international soccer tournament unlike any other, with exceptions and caveats shoe-horned in at all angles. “I have always had the same ambition,” the World Cup champion said in March. “I have always said that I wanted to go, but it doesn’t depend on me.”That’s important because clubs are only required to release players for tournaments included on the calendar.
Following the mid-season World Cup in 2022 it said that 43% of players surveyed had experienced “extreme or increased mental fatigue.”“Professional footballers are playing too many games,” Goldblatt said. “There is absolutely no shortage of football tournaments both meaningful and entertaining.”A compromise, likely intended to avoid clashes with club teams, reached in 1992 made the tournament age-restricted to under 23s.
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