The Olympic team of Ukraine will play an away friendly match against the Japan team
Within the preparations for the OI-2024 in Paris, Ukraine's Olympic team under Ruslan Rotany will play a friendly match against Japan's team.
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The meeting will take place on March 25, 2024, in Fukuoka at the "Mikuni Kitakyushu" stadium and will start at 19:15 local time (12:15 PM Kyiv time).
We remind you that men's teams will compete for medals at the Summer Olympics-2024 from July 24 to August 9 in seven cities of France: Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Saint-Etienne, Nice, and Nantes. According to the regulations, players born after January 1, 2001 can participate. Additionally, each team may include up to three players older than this age in their roster of 18.
In the men's football tournament at the Olympics-2024, 16 national teams will compete: France as the host, three teams representing Europe (Ukraine, Spain, Israel), three from Africa (Morocco, Egypt, Mali), three from Asia (to be known in March 2024), two from South America (to be determined in February), two from the CONCACAF zone (USA, Dominican Republic), one from Oceania (New Zealand), and also joining them is the winner of a playoff between the fourth-placed teams from Africa (Guinea) and Asia.
The format of the Olympic tournament is traditional: competition in four groups with four teams each, followed by playoffs where the top two teams advance, then quarter-finals, semi-finals, third-place match, and final (September 9, Paris, "Parc des Princes").
We add that the current Olympic champion in football among men's national teams is Brazil, which won the gold medal against Spain in the Tokyo-2020 final.
