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US, Australia, Sweden and New Zealand are in the identical group in the ladies’s soccer occasion at Tokyo Olympics.
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- Last Updated:April 21, 2021, 17:47 IST
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The U.S. girls’s nationwide staff will face Australia, Sweden and New Zealand at this summer season’s Tokyo Olympics, whereas in the lads’s competitors 2016 winners Brazil will tackle Germany following the group stage draw on Wednesday.
The American girls’s staff are the reigning world champions and four-time winners of the Olympic event and will begin as favourites in Tokyo, with Rio 2016 winners Germany failing to qualify.
Team GB girls have drawn 2016 bronze medallists Canada, Chile and hosts Japan. Making solely their second Olympic event look, Team GB will likely be led by England’s interim coach Hege Riise.
On the lads’s aspect, Brazil will tackle Germany, Ivory Coast and Saudi Arabia.
Mexico, the 2012 gold medallists, had been pitted in opposition to hosts Japan, South Africa and France.
The males’s staff are normally restricted to choosing gamers below the age of 23, with simply three overage gamers allowed.
However, the age bracket has been raised for the Tokyo Games in line with the one-year postponement of the occasion because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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