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List Of Overage Players In Olympic Football
Since the Football at the 1992 Summer Olympics, 1992 tournament, male squads have been required to consist of players under 23 years old; since the Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 1996 tournament, a maximum of three players over the age of 23 have been allowed per squad. This is a list of all-time overage players (also known as Wild card (sports), wild card players in some countries) in Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic football since the Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 1996 tournament. Overage players rules in Olympic football have influenced other competitions like Football at the Asian Games, Asian Games football, Football at the Pan American Games, Pan American Games football, and Football at the African Games, African Games football. Africa (CAF) Algeria Overage players of Algeria national under-23 football team Cameroon Overage players of Cameroon national under-23 football team Egypt Overage players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football At The 1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Football at the Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics Football Tournament competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics featured 16 national sides from the six continental confederations. The 16 teams were drawn into four groups of four and each group played a round-robin tournament. At the end of the group stage, the top two teams advanced to the knockout stage, beginning with the quarter-finals and culminating with the gold medal match at Camp Nou on 8 August 1992. For the first time, an age limit has been set for participants under the age of 23 (Under-23), which has been used ever since. Spain became the first host country to win the gold medal in an Olympic football tournament since Belgium in Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics, 1920, an achievement which would not be repeated until Brazil won it in Football at the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016. Notably, these were the first matches played with football's new back-pass rule and was the last Olympic football competition which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Serge Mimpo
Serge Mimpo-Tsintsémé (born 6 February 1974) is a Cameroonian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He also holds French citizenship. He played on the professional level in Super League Greece The Super League Greece 1 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Greece and the highest level of the Greek football league system. The league was formed on 16 July 2006 and repla ... for Panachaiki 2005 F.C. and Ethnikos Asteras F.C. Honours * Olympic champion: 2000. References External linksProfile at Sports-reference.com Living people 1974 births Men's association football midfielders Cameroonian men's footballers Cameroon men's under-20 international footballers Super League Greece players Championnat National players Championnat National 2 players Canon Yaoundé players Panachaiki F.C. players Ethnikos Asteras F.C. players Paris FC players Red Star FC players F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ahmed Hegazi
Ahmed Elsayed Ali Elsayed Hegazy (; born 25 January 1991), simply known as Ahmed Hegazi, is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Saudi First Division League club Neom and captains the Egypt national team. Hegazi has played for the senior Egyptian national team since 2011; during this period, his only absences from the squad have been due to injury. He has represented Egypt in the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, 2011 African U-20 Championship, 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup, the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2017 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In 2017, he was included in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations CAF Team of the tournament due to his impressive performances. Club career Ismaily Hegazi's professional playing career began on 24 November 2009, when he made his debut with Egyptian Premier League club Ismaily playing as a full back. Fiorentina On 22 December 2011, the Egyptian club announced having made a deal with Italian side Fiorentina i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Goalkeeper (association Football)
The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a association football positions, position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. The goalkeeper's main role is to stop the opposing football team, team from Scoring in association football, scoring a 'Football pitch#Goals, goal' (i.e. putting the football (ball), ball over the Goal_(sports)#Association_football, goal Goal line (association football), line). This is accomplished by having the goalkeeper move into the trajectory of the ball to either catch it or direct it further from the vicinity of the goal line. Within the penalty area, goalkeepers are allowed to use their hands, giving them (outside throw-ins) the sole rights on the field to handle the ball. The goalkeeper is indicated by wearing a different coloured kit (association football), kit from their teammates and opposition. The back-pass rule is a rule that disallows handling passes b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mohamed El Shenawy
Mohamed El-Sayed Mohamed El-Shenawy Gomaa (; born 18 December 1988) is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly, which he captains, and the Egypt national team. He began his career as a youth player with Al Ahly but was released in 2009, joining Tala'ea El Gaish. He spent time on loan with Haras El-Hodoud before joining Petrojet in 2013. He returned to Al Ahly in July 2016 and then displaced Sherif Ekramy; he is considered one of the best goalkeepers in Africa. He helped the club win four consecutive Egyptian Premier League titles seasons 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 and 2019–20 and 2 consecutive CAF Champions League titles seasons 2019–20 and 2020–21. He made his international debut for Egypt in March 2018 in a friendly match. He was selected as the starting goalkeeper for their squad at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, playing in their opening two matches. Club career El-Shenawy began his career in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football At The 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's Tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held from 22 July to 7 August 2021. Originally, it was to be held from 23 July to 8 August 2020, but the Summer Olympics were postponed to the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the official name of the games remains the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was the 27th edition of the men's Olympic football tournament. Together with the women's competition, the 2020 Summer Olympics football tournament was held at six stadiums in six cities in Japan. The final was hosted at the International Stadium in Yokohama. Teams participating in the men's competition were restricted to under-24 players (born on or after 1 January 1997) with a maximum of three overage players allowed. The men's tournament is typically restricted to under-23 players though following the postponement of the Olympics by a year, FIFA decided to maintain the restriction of players born on or after 1 January 1997. Brazil were the defending ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Emad Moteab
Emad Mohamed Abdelnaby Ibrahim Moteab (; born 20 February 1983) is an Egyptian former professional footballer who played as a striker. International career Moteab played for the youth team in 2003 in Burkina Faso under the leadership of Hassan Shehata, scoring five goals and winning the championship with the team. Then he participated in the Youth World Cup in the Emirates and succeeded in scoring a historic goal against England, which FIFA chose as the best goal in the tournament. He joined the first team after that, also under the leadership of Hassan Shehata, and was able to win three consecutive African Nations titles in 2006, 2008, and 2010. He also won the gold medal in the Arab Games in Cairo 2007, where he was the top scorer with 5 goals. He has three other friendly tournaments: the Lausanne tournament, the Nelson Mandela tournament, and the LG tournament. The number of his participations with the first team reached 70 matches, scoring 28 goals, and he is the sixth to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mohamed Aboutrika
Mohamed Mohamed Mohamed Aboutrika (; born 7 November 1978) is an Egyptian retired professional association football, footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a forward (association football), forward. He was voted second place in the African Footballer of the Year award in 2008, and was one of five nominees for the 2006 award, and one of the ten nominated for the 2013 award. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest African players of all time. Aboutrika won the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations, African Cup of Nations in 2006 with the Egyptian national team. He also scored the winning goal to help Egypt win the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations. He helped his club Al Ahly SC, Al Ahly to win the bronze medal in the FIFA Club World Cup in 2006 FIFA Club World Cup, 2006. Off the pitch, he has been noted for both various humanitarian efforts as well as his philanthropy in Egypt. Club career 2004: Debut season with Al Ahly In the first half of Egyptian league 2003–2004, Aboutrika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ahmed Fathy
Ahmed Fathy Abdelmonem Ahmed Ibrahim (; born 10 November 1984) is an Egyptian former professional association football, footballer who played as a full-back (association football), full-back. Considered by some as one of Africa's best-ever full-backs, Fathy started his career with Egyptian side Ismaily SC before moving to England to play in the Premier League with Sheffield United F.C., Sheffield United in 2007. Fathy returned to Egypt after only a few months however, signing to Al Ahly SC, Al Ahly where he remained until April 2020 where he signed to Pyramids FC, whilst also spending some time on loan at both Kuwait side Kazma Sporting Club, Kazma and Hull City A.F.C., Hull City back in England. Alongside his club career, Fathy represented Egypt national football team, Egypt from 2002, playing over one hundred games and scoring nine goals for his country. Club career Early career: Ismaily and Sheffield United Fathy was born in Banha, He played as a midfielder and right-back fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Football At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's Tournament
The men's football tournament at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held in London and five other cities in Great Britain from 26 July to 11 August. Associations affiliated with FIFA were invited to enter their men's U-23 teams in regional qualifying competitions, from which 15 teams, plus the hosts Great Britain, reached the final tournament. Men's teams were allowed to augment their squads with three players over the age of 23. It was the first men's Olympic football tournament to feature a team representing Great Britain since the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The competition also marked Uruguay's men's football team's first Olympic appearance since 1928, when it won its second consecutive gold medal. The gold medal was won by Mexico who defeated Brazil 2–1 in the final. Schedule The match schedule of the men's tournament. Qualification Each National Olympic Committee may enter one men's team in the football tournament. The 2004 and 2008 Olympic gold-medallists Argentina fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Egypt National Under-23 Football Team
The Egypt national under-23 football team (), sometimes called the Egypt Olympic Team, nicknamed The Pharaohs (), is the national team of Egypt Under-23 and is administered by the Egyptian Football Association. The team's main objectives are to qualify and play at the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations and Olympic Games. As of Los Angeles 2028, players need to be born on or after 1 January 2005 to participate but the team may be supplemented with 3 over-age players. The team has played at the Olympic Games 13 times, with four of these being after the tournament became age capped. They're also the top-medalist at the U-23 African Cup. History Egypt's first ever appearance in football was in Antwerp 1920 where they played one match against Italy. This was the first official international match for the Pharaohs as they lost 2–1 on August 20, 1920. Egypt would later qualify for 9 straight tournaments from 1920 to 1964. With their best result achieved being Fourth Place in Amsterdam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gustave Bebbe
Gustave Anicet Bebbe Mbangue (born 22 June 1982) is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays for Turkish club Gebzespor. He is a winger, but also plays at forward. Club career Bebbe was born in Yaoundé, Cameroon. In November 2011, Bebbe signed to play with reigning Vietnamese champions Sông Lam Nghệ An of the V-League. International career Bebbe also has Turkish citizenship under the name M. Alper Aydın, however, he lost his eligibility to play for Turkey when he was capped for Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ... in June 2008. References External links * Footballers from Yaoundé Living people 1982 births Men's association football forwards Men's association football wingers Cameroonian men's footballers Cameroon men's intern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
