Paris 2024 Qualifier Updates: Men's Soccer

The men's soccer field for next year's Paris Olympics is now halfway filled out after the Europe and Africa qualifiers, with Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Spain and Ukraine joining the Dominican Republic, France and the United States.

Africa
Egypt will be making their thirteenth appearance and second straight after qualifying for the Tokyo games two years ago. This will also be their third appearance in the last four Olympic men's soccer tournaments, only missing out on the Rio games over the previous twelve years. 

After missing out on London and Rio, Morocco will be making their return to Olympic men's soccer competition, their eighth appearance. 

Europe
Israel will be making their third appearance in Olympic men's soccer and first since 1976.

Spain will be making their twelfth appearance, although this will be their eleventh tournament that they've made through the qualifiers as they were the hosts in 1992. This will be their second straight appearance after qualifying for the Tokyo games two years ago. 

And Ukraine, the team that I was rooting for to qualify, will be making their debut in Olympic men's soccer. They're the second men's soccer qualifier to be making their Olympic debut in Paris 2024 after the Dominican Republic earned a CONCACAF qualifier spot last year.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NWSL News

The Washington Spirit have declined the 2026 option on the contract of Chloe Ricketts, meaning that she'll be eligible to start talking with other teams on July 1st. Since signing with the team in 2023- and with their next game August 3- she's appeared thirty-two times for the Spirit. 
Read more

NBA Rookie Tracker (Ongoing)

Memphis Grizzlies Monday, July 8- Summer League Zach Edey posted a solid 34 minutes in the OT loss to the Jazz in his debut, scoring 14 points and adding 15 boards for a double-double.   Utah Jazz Monday, July 8- Summer League Kyle Filipowski posted 17 minutes off the bench in his debut, grabbing 4 boards.  LA Lakers  Sunday, July 7- Summer League Dalton Knecht: 22 Minutes, 12 Points (48 Minutes and 24 Points in two games) Bronny James DNP  *Next game Wednesday  Colin Castleton posted 20 Minutes and 10 Points in the starting five (47 and 21 in two SL games)  Tommy Kuhse, in the starting lineup for the first time this summer, added 23 minutes and 10 points (46 and 25, respectively, in 2024 Summer League action)  Saturday, July 6- Summer League Dalton Knecht (Lakers debut): 26 Minutes, 12 Points Bronny James (Lakers debut): 22 Minutes, 4 Points  Colin Castleton: 27 Minutes, 11 Points Tommy Kuhse: 23 Minutes and 15 Points off the bench ...
Read more

Three quick questions

Why are Russia only suspended from U21 Euros qualifying? To me, suspension from the tournament is too much of a short-term consequence- not only that, a suspension can be lifted at any time. And this is compounded by the fact that the U21 Euros next summer are the continental qualifier for Paris 2024 men's soccer.   So here's what I suggest FIFA does: remove Russia from the U21 Euros qualifiers. As a result, Russia can't qualify for Paris 2024 in men's soccer. I'm thinking that will be much more of a consequence than saying "you can't play in the tournament  now , but maybe in a couple of months".  Why is Russia in the EuroBasket field?  This years' EuroBasket tournament is scheduled for September and, surprisingly, Russia are not only in the field but are in Group A for the opening round. Which begs the question of why ?  As with the above answer, this seems like not even a short-term consequence. FIBA (the international governing body for basketb...
Read more