Great Britain Olympic Football Team
Come London 2012 and the Olympic Football final in Wembley Stadium the issue of a Great Britain Football team will have been debated long and hard. Will Team Great Britain compete? The factual answer will probably be NO.
- 1 The Facts
- 2 The Hurdles To A United Great Britain Team
- 3 The Solutions
- 4 Yet More Problems
- 5 The Final Team?
A Great Britain Football team does not exist and has not since the team failed to qualify for the Summer Olympic Games in Munich 1972. Why? Because Great Britain is a United Kingdom made up of four nations: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each of these Nations has its own National Football Team, and National Football League and are recognised as individual Nations by Footballs World Governing body, FIFA
There have …
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Great Adidas Video
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