Olympic Soccer: Schedules for Saturday and Sunday

Saturday, July 28

7:00 AM ET Women's  Group F - Japan vs. Sweden City of Coventry Stadium
9:30 AM ET Women's  Group E - New Zealand vs. Brazil Millennium Stadium
9:45 AM ET Women's  Group F - Canada vs. South Africa City of Coventry Stadium
12:00 PM ET Women's  Group G - United States vs. Colombia Hampden Park
12:15 PM ET Women's  Group E - Great Britain vs. Cameroon Millennium Stadium
2:45 PM ET Women's  Group G - France vs. DPR Korea Hampden Park


Sunday, July 29

7:00 AM ET Men's  Group C - Egypt vs. New Zealand Old Trafford
9:30 AM ET Men's  Group B - Mexico vs. Gabon City of Coventry Stadium
10:00 AM ET Men's  Group C - Brazil vs. Belarus Old Trafford
12:00 PM ET Men's  Group A - Senegal vs. Uruguay Wembley Stadium
12:00 PM ET Men's  Group D - Japan vs. Morocco St James' Park
12:15 PM ET Men's  Group B - Korea vs. Switzerland         City of Coventry Stadium
2:45 PM ET Men's  Group A - Great Britain vs. UAE Wembley Stadium
2:45 PM ET Men's  Group D - Spain vs. Honduras St James' Park

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Men's Olympic Soccer: Thursday's Review, Reports, & Analyses

Japan forward Yuki Otsu scored in the first half in a 1-0 win over 10-man Spain on Thursday in men's Olympic soccer, hurting the Spaniards' chances of winning Group D. Gold-medal favorite Brazil scored three first-half goals then held on for a win in Group C. Moussa Konate scored late in the second half to lift Senegal into a tie against host Britain in Group A. South Korea wasted a number of scoring chances against Mexico as the two teams opened Group B soccer with a scoreless draw.

Review

Great Britain 1 - 1 Senegal

John Brewin at Old Trafford

Andy Hunter at Old Trafford

Giggs slams Senegal's physical approach

Spain 0 - 1 Japan

Ewan Murray at Hampton Park

Brazil 3 - 2 Egypt

Daniel Taylor at the Millennium Stadium

UAE 1 - 2 Uruguay

Andy Hunter at Old Trafford

Mexico 0 - 0 South Korea

Report

Michael Cox: Five Conclusions

Grant Wahl: Three Thoughts

Friday MLS Forecast

The Forecast briefly discusses Tim Cahill's move to New York and scans the scene for the key themes in yet another busy weekend of MLS action.

Olympic Men's Soccer: Thursday's Information

I got a bit behind this morning and matches are already underway. Currently, Japan are up 1-0 over Spain, Honduras and Morocco are tied at 2-2, and Mexico and South Korea are scoreless. Later today we've got the following:

UAE vs. Uruguay

Gabon vs. Switzerland

Belarus vs. New Zealand

Brazil vs. Egypt

Great Britain vs. Senegal

North Korea women’s soccer team refuses to take field over flag dispute

On Wednesday, the North Korea women's soccer team refused to take the field for approximately an hour at Hampden Park in Glasgow because of a political slight. As North Korea was preparing to take the field for its match against Colombia, the scoreboard introduced the North Korea players with South Korea's flag beside their pictures.

Olympic Football - Which men will star?

Abdelaziz Barrada, M, Morocco

Defending champions Argentina failed to qualify for the men's Olympic football tournament, but there will be no lack of quality on display.


Brazil and Spain are regarded by many as the favourites to win the competition, which is hardly surprising given the depth of quality in both squads. 


Uruguay, who like Brazil have the coach of their full senior team in charge, also look strong, while Team GB will be competing for the first time since 1960. 


The tournament will showcase some of the best players in the world as well as numerous others on the cusp of a major breakthrough. 

BBC Sport profiles 11 of them

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MLS All Stars 3-2 Chelsea

According to Baxter's Law, the MLS All Stars are the new club champions of Europe. In 1967 Scotland became the first team to beat England following the World Cup, in a game infamous for Jim Baxter taunting the English by playing keepy-up on the Wembley pitch. As the first team to beat the World Cup winners since their triumph, Scottish fans proclaimed their team the new World Champions. So when the MLS All Stars beat Chelsea 3-2 in Philadelphia on Wednesday night - the first defeat for the London side as Champions League holders - a similar selective logic could be heard in some of the more tongue-in-cheek American reactions.

Manchester United 'temporarily postpone New York flotation plan'

Manchester United are thought to have postponed temporarily plans to launch their $300m (£193m) flotation in New York, after volatile US markets spooked the Premier League club into a rethink.

The move is the latest setback in a long-running attempt to list the company's shares, a move that had previously been earmarked for the exchanges in Hong Kong and Singapore, and comes as the club had been looking to kick off their roadshow presentations to potential share buyers this week.

Women's Olympic Soccer: Alex Morgan fires USA's Olympic fightback against France

Twice, Hope Solo stretched to her left to stop the ball. Twice, she couldn't quite reach it.

Bang! Boom! Two quick shots, and the US women's soccer team had an early hole at the start of the quest for a third consecutive Olympic gold medal.

Fortunately for the Americans, they have firepower like no other squad in the world, enough to overcome such a deficit and take control, beating France 4-2 Wednesday as they opened their London Games far from London.

Report

Ewan Murray at Hampton Park

Grant Wahl: It wasn't pretty, but U.S. women get first win

Alyssa Roenigk: U.S. women focused, unfazed

Women's Olympic Soccer: Japan put on a show as Coventry embraces spirit of Games

Japan 2 - 1 Canada

Paul Wilson at the City of Coventry Stadium

Norman Hubbard: Athletes give way to aesthetes at United

Sir Alex Ferguson seems to like pinning his colours to the corner of the unappreciated. The Manchester United manager's contrary streak has come to the fore on the club's pre-season tour. Not for the first time, he has defended the Glazers, despite the evidence United would have rather more spending power but for the debts they lumped on the club. Less controversially and more instructively, he has also described Michael Carrick as "the key player" in his midfield.

Gabriele Marcotti: Pippo Inzaghi made his own luck

Sometimes 90 minutes sum up a player's body of work. Perhaps no match epitomizes Pippo Inzaghi, who retired this week after a 21-year career, better than the 2006-07 Champions League final.

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2012 Summer Olympics TV Schedule

Television

Women's Olympic Soccer: Wednesday's Previews

Who: USA vs. France

When: 12pm EDT

Where: Hampton Park, Glasgow, Scotland

U.S. TV: NBCSN

Preview I

Preview II

Grant Wahl: Three Thoughts

Women's Olympic Soccer 2012: 10 Rising Stars Who Will Break out in London

Kelley O'Hara, D, USA

Olympic soccer gets underway today and the continual growth of the women's game will shine.

Everyone knows about Hope Solo, Abby Wambach, Marta, Homare Sawa and others. But when the matches begin look out for some of the younger athletes to break out and make a statement.

The women's game is no longer a select few of supremely talented players on one or two teams. The talent gap is continually closing and parity is creeping in. That is an exciting development for the sport that will only keep growing the sport growing in popularity.

Who are those that are going to break out in London?

John Duerden on Asia's hopes of gold, silver or bronze at the Olympic Games

The Olympics may just be entering the psyche of football fans in the UK, but in Asia the five rings have been a big deal for years and, for some nations, the thought of gold around necks at the Olympics looms larger in dreams than the Asian Cup.

United Arab Emirates, South Korea and Japan are all getting very excited about the next few weeks.

Cahill acquisition makes Red Bulls the clear favorite in MLS Cup chase

We've all been waiting to see which MLS team would make a blockbuster move before the July 27 transfer deadline. The Red Bulls didn't disappoint. MLS reportedly has agreed on a transfer fee that allows New York to acquire midfielder Tim Cahill from Everton of the English Premier League. This comes a little more than a week after New York made a trade with Vancouver for forward Sebastien Le Toux, and those upgrades make the Red Bulls the team to beat in MLS.