Quote from: barota on July 21, 2021, 07:01:29 PM

olympic football always has a chunk of uncertainty due to FIFA empowering clubs to decide whether to release their top players. this tournament can be a great leveller where traditional heavyweights can end up with weak contingents.there is also a glorious history of sowing the seeds for future champions who seize the opportunity and burst into global reckoning.the kick off is on July 21 and the final is played in tokyo on August 7. There are four groups of four teams and two teams from each progress to the knockout stage.

I totally agree with you here. Although I would certainly claim to know football pretty well myself, almost all the players on the teams are unknown to me, except for those of my own nation, of course. The reason for this is of course that it is practically an U-21 tournament with 3 additional players who are allowed to exceed this age limit. This rule makes perfect sense, of course, because unlike most sports, the Olympics are not really a highlight for footballers and are also difficult to reconcile with the schedules of the European leagues.
That is also the reason though why i find it so hard to make a good researched bet on the olympic football games, because i just don't know the players well enough.