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Home > Sports > Winter/Summer Games > Summer Games 2012 London > Summer Games/ Soccer

London 2012 Olympic Soccer Tickets

Soccer, the "beautiful game," is one of the most widely-played and wildly-loved sports in the world. From Brazil to Korea, "association football" (as it is formally known) has an immense following, with fans' relationship with their footie team often becoming as important to them as their career, friends, or family. Due to technicalities with the organization running the World Cup, the UK has, in recent years, declined to enter a football team in the Summer Olympics. With excitement about the 2012 Summer Games coming to a boiling point, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish football officials finally gave the all-clear to enter a UK team in the Olympics (provided it consists entirely of English players so as not to jeopardize the separation between the English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish football associations).

Olympic soccer is played in a similar manner to FIFA soccer: two teams, each consisting of eleven players, attempt to kick a spherical ball into the opposing team's goal. Scores are generally low, but enthusiasts are still wild about the drama and progression of the game. While professional players were allowed to join Olympic teams starting in 1992, those playing in an Olympic match can't have played in a World Cup before (this rule was a compromise between the IOC and FIFA to keep interest in the World Cup high).