Mens Olympic Soccer Schedule

[tankfantry]

Round 1
August 7 Australia vs. Serbia 17:00 Shanghai Stadium
August 7 Cote D'Ivoire vs. Argentina 19:45 Shanghai Stadium
August 7 Japan vs. USA 17:00 Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
August 7 Netherlands vs. Nigeria 19:45 Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
August 7 Brazil vs. Belgium 17:00 Shenyang Olympic Stadium
August 7 China vs. New Zealand 19:45 Shenyang Olympic Stadium
August 7 Honduras vs. Italy 17:00 Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium
August 7 Republic of Korea vs. Cameroon 19:45 Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium

Round 2
August 10 Argentina vs. Australia 17:00 Shanghai Stadium
August 10 Serbia vs. Cote D'Ivoire 19:45 Shanghai Stadium
August 10 Nigeria vs. Japan 17:00 Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
August 10 USA vs. Netherlands 19:45 Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
August 10 New Zealand vs. Brazil 17:00 Shenyang Olympic Stadium
August 10 Belgium vs. China 19:45 Shenyang Olympic Stadium
August 10 Cameroon vs. Honduras 17:00 Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium
August 10 Italy vs. Republic of Korea 19:45 Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium

Round 3
August 13 Netherlands vs. Japan 17:00 Shenyang Olympic Stadium
August 13 Nigeria vs. USA 17:00 Beijing Workers' Stadium
August 13 Republic of Korea vs. Honduras 17:00 Shanghai Stadium
August 13 Cameroon vs. Italy 17:00 Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
August 13 Cote D'Ivoire vs. Australia 19:45 Tianjin Olympic Center Stadium
August 13 Argentina vs. Serbia 19:45 Beijing Workers' Stadium
August 13 China vs. Brazil 19:45 Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium
August 13 New Zealand vs. Belgium 19:45 Shanghai Stadium

[tankfantry]

Ok here is a list of the known Men & Womens games (along with out times, eastern).

[acdc]

awesome, nice compilation of dates thanks. I was sorta lost. But what is this NBC Olympic Soccer channel?

[tankfantry]

come one US let roll over Japan.

[CyMoahk]

yeah! Japan 0-1 USA ^.^
which surprises me, as now the US Men's team is doing better than the US women's team... o.O

anyway, Italy steamrolled Honduras with the highest-scoring match so far (Brazil won their first match as well). You guys think this Olympics will be one of traditional powerhouses or of the underdogs?

[tankfantry]

depends, The US has the ability to challenge for the Gold but I see Brazil in the finals.

[acdc]

I say it will be Argentina in the Finals. Just depends against who.

[acdc]

We could have really won this game. I started watching from the second half. Kljestan's goal was amazing and thats probably what turned the game around. Altidore was great coming off the bench. He really made those defenders work. Damn, I'm mad at Holden, if it wasn't for his clumsy foul, the US would have won and have been the group leaders heading into the quarterfinals. Great game though, many expected the US to go down in the preliminary round. The US now has to beat Nigeria or tie in order to move on.

[tankfantry]

that was our game to win, there is NO we should not have come away with 3 points, but we should beat Nigeria with no problem and move on.

[CyMoahk]

I dunno.... Nigeria is one of Africa's stronger teams
anyway, as I like working with numbers, I think this is how the group would play out:
-If the US beat or tie Nigeria, we're through to the next round, first in the group unless Holland beat Japan by two or more, or they win by one and have more total GF than the US
-If the US lose to Nigeria, we're through unless Holland beat Japan


btw, just as a sidenote on the earlier conversation, the teams guaranteed through to the next round are Argentina, Brazil, and Italy - Italy and Brazil both with an impressive +6 GD. I think all three will be in the semi's.

[The Boss]

to ACDC question the soccer channel on nbc is usa and we should have beat the Dutch, period. And we are missing bradley and adu so we need altidore and fielhaber to step up in the midfield

[acdc]

Good summary Cymoahk. Lets just hope our boys can pull out a win against Nigeria. I think Altidore should be starting this game as Adu will be missing. We've got to get him going early.

[CyMoahk]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO[/i]
T_T

Nigeria 2-1 US
Holland 1-0 Japan

T_T
the only thing that could have stopped us from making the knockout stage, happened....

[tankfantry]

you have got to be kidding me, what happened? All we needed was a draw.

[CyMoahk]

We didn't even need a draw, as long as Japan won or tied....
T_T'
We got a red card in the first 15min I think, so playing 10-11 the vast majority of the game...