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Sydney Olympic: 8 MF: Steve Corica 24 March 1973 (aged 23) Wolverhampton Wanderers: 9 FW: Mark Viduka 9 October 1975 (aged 20) Dinamo Zagreb: 10 FW: Aurelio Vidmar* 3 February 1967 (aged 29) Sion: 11 MF: Danny Tiatto 22 May 1973 (aged 23) Melbourne Knights: 12 FW: Joe Spiteri 6 May 1973 (aged 23)
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 Sanford Stadium on August 3, 1996.
The 1996 Football at the Summer Olympics tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics started on July 20 and finished on August 3. The women's competition was contested for the first time in Olympic history at these Games.
The opening ceremony featured Céline Dion singing "The Power of the Dream", the theme song of the 1996 Olympics. The closing ceremony featured Gloria Estefan singing "Reach", the official theme song of the 1996 Olympics. The mascot for the Olympiad was an abstract, animated character named Izzy. In contrast to the standing tradition of mascots ...
Means of qualification Berths Qualified Host nation: 1 United States AFC Preliminary Competition: 3 South Korea (winner) Japan (runner-up) Saudi Arabia (third-place) CAF Preliminary Competition
The women's football tournament at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was held from 21 July to 1 August 1996. The women's tournament was a full international tournament with no restrictions on age. The eight national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 16 players, including two goalkeepers. [1]
The United States has placed first overall in the Summer Olympic Games nineteen times, followed by the Soviet Union with six overall victories (not including the 1992 first-place finish by the Unified Team). In the Winter Olympic Games, Norway has placed first overall ten times and the Soviet Union (prior to its dissolution in 1991) had placed ...
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 Sanford Stadium on August 3, 1996. [7]