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Monday 10 February 2020
10:12 am
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The Brazilian national team joined the caravan of the men who qualified for the football competition (men) in the upcoming Olympic Games (Tokyo 2020), by defeating its Argentine counterpart 3/0 at the end of the qualifying tournament, whose competitions were held in Colombia.
And the Brazilian team became the fourteenth team to qualify for the football competition (men) in the Tokyo Olympics, where it was preceded by the teams of Japan, the owner of the land, France, Germany, Romania, Spain from Europe, New Zealand from the Association of Oceania, Egypt, Cote d’Ivoire, South Africa from the African continent, Australia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea from Asia and Argentina From the current qualifiers for the South American continent.
The remaining two qualifying cards are settled through CONCACAF (North, Central America and Caribbean) qualifiers, to be held in Mexico from March 20 to early April.
The Brazilian Olympic champion team snatched the second qualifying card from this tournament to the Tokyo Olympics after raising its score to five points in the second place in the group in the final stage of the qualifiers, while the Argentine team’s balance was frozen at six points at the top of the group, knowing that he qualified for the Olympics before the activities of this last round Among the group competitions, which also saw the Uruguayan team beat its Colombian counterpart 3/1.
Uruguay raised its score to four points in third place, and the Colombian team’s balance was frozen at one point at the bottom of the group, to place the two teams zero-hands.
Paulinho opened the scoring in the match with the first goal of the Brazilian national team in the 13th minute, then Matthews Konya added the other goals in the 30th and 55th minutes to raise his score to five goals and crown the top scorer for these qualifiers.
In the other match, the Uruguayan team defeated its Colombian counterpart with three goals scored by Juan Ignacio Ramirez, Juan Manuel Sanabria and Jose Luis Rodriguez in the 28th, 53st and 61st minutes, against a goal scored by Edwin Citry in the 78th minute.
The Brazilian team is running the Olympic competition for the fourth time in a row. Despite his many previous participation in the Olympic Games and the samba winning the World Cup five times earlier, the Brazilian team won the Olympic gold medal only once was in the last version when the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro hosted the 2016 Olympics.
As the team qualifies for the Olympics, their goal will be to win the gold medal for the second time in a row.
On the other hand, the Argentine national team is running for the Olympic competition for the second time in a row and the fifth in its history.
The team, which won the gold medal for the competition in both the 2004 Olympics in Athens and 2008 in Beijing and the silver medal in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, bid farewell to the competition from the first round (group stage) of the last Olympics in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro.
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