The United States women’s national team have been drawn towards previous rivals Sweden in addition to Australia and New Zealand in Group G for the Tokyo Olympic soccer event, it was introduced on Wednesday.
Nice Britain will face Canada and Chile in addition to hosts Japan in Group E, whereas European champions Netherlands have been drawn towards Brazil, China and Zambia in Group F.
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The USWNT are searching for to turn into the primary girls’s aspect to win a World Cup and an Olympic gold medal back-to-back.
“After ready an additional yr for this Olympics, the draw represents an actual milestone in our journey and helps us focus in much more on our preparation and what we have to do to attain our targets,” USWNT head coach Vlatko Andonovski stated.
“We’ve nice respect for all three of our group opponents and we all know this event will push us to our limits each mentally and bodily, in addition to problem us each recreation technically and tactically, so we are going to do the whole lot we are able to within the subsequent three months to organize for achievement.”
There can be a brand new winner within the girls’s event, with 2016 champions Germany failing to qualify.
Nice Britain can be led by former Olympic gold medallist Hege Riise on the event.
“There isn’t any doubt we’ve been drawn in a really thrilling group. The host nation Japan are an especially gifted crew and have been a robust drive in girls’s soccer for a few years,” she stated in an announcement.
“Canada are one other excellent bodily crew, as we noticed earlier this month when England and Wales each confronted them at residence within the April FIFA window. Chile usually are not a crew I do know fairly as nicely, however they put in a really spectacular efficiency towards Cameroon to safe their place on this summer time’s Video games for the primary time of their historical past.”
Riise will identify her 18-player squad — which can characteristic gamers from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Eire — on the finish of Could.
The boys’s draw noticed Rio 2016 Olympic males’s champions Brazil being drawn towards Germany, Ivory Coast and Saudi Arabia in Group D.
Hosts Japan will face Mexico, South Africa and France in Group Some time two-time Olympic champions Argentina will play Spain, Egypt and Australia in Group C.
Group B consists of New Zealand, South Korea, Honduras and Romania.
The soccer event at Tokyo will happen from July 21 to Aug. 6 in six cities throughout Japan.
Males’s Olympic draw
Group A
Japan, South Africa, Mexico, France
Group B
New Zealand, South Korea, Honduras, Romania
Group C
Egypt, Spain, Argentina, Australia
Group D
Brazil, Germany, Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia
Ladies’s Olympic draw
Group E
Japan, Canada, Nice Britain, Chile
Group F
China, Brazil, Zambia, Netherlands
Group G
Sweden, United States, Australia, New Zealand