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Men’s Olympic Football: Final

And football at the Olympics comes to a close, although it went out on a great note with Brazil vs. Mexico. The Mexican team stunned Brazil at the start with a goal within the first 30 seconds and soaked up Brazilian pressure well. In the second half Brazil piled on even more pressure, but Mexico answered in the 75th minute with another goal to seal their gold medal win in a great team performance. Brazil did score in the the 90th minute to make it 2-1, but it was too late for a comeback. In the bronze medal match yesterday South Korea and Japan fought hard, with South Korea winning 2-0. Congrats to all four teams! [Photo Credit: Getty]

Final and Third Place Match Results:

• Gold Medal: Mexico
• Silver Medal: Brazil
• Bronze Medal: South Korea
• Fourth Place: Japan

Men’s Olympic Football: Semifinals

Today’s action was a little quieter after an insane women’s semifinal match-up between the U.S. and Canada yesterday, but both games today still had some great play. Japan led early, but Mexico came back to win, and Brazil beat a tough South Korean side in the second semifinal. Mexico and Brazil will play on August 11th for the gold medal, and Japan and South Korea will play a day earlier for third place. [Photo Credit: Getty]

Semifinal Results:

• Mexico 3-1 Japan
• South Korea 0-3 Brazil

Bronze Medal Match:

• South Korea vs. Japan

Olympic Final Match:

• Brazil vs. Mexico

Men’s Olympic Football: Quarterfinals

While the women’s games saw more dominant performances, there were some very closely contested matches in the men’s quarterfinals games. In the end probably the stronger of the teams have all made it through to the semifinals, which will be played on August 7th, but the spirit of underdog teams like Honduras and Senegal gave this tournament a great boost.

Quarterfinal Results:

• Japan 3-0 Egypt
• Mexico 4-2 Senegal (after extra time)
• Brazil 3-2 Honduras
• Great Britain 1-1* South Korea (* win 5-4 on penalties)

Semifinal Match-ups:

• Mexico vs. Japan
• South Korea vs. Brazil

Men’s Olympic Football: Matchday 3

The stage is set for the Olympic knockout round. After today’s results, Great Britain and Senegal from Group A will play in the quarterfinals. From Group B, Mexico and South Korea move on. From Group C, Brazil and Egypt advance. And finally from Group D Japan and Honduras will play in the quarterfinals. [Photo Credit: EFE]

Matchday 3 Results:

• Great Britain 1-0 Uruguay
• Senegal 1-1 United Arab Emirates
• Mexico 1-0 Switzerland
• South Korea 0-0 Gabon
• Brazil 3-0 New Zealand
• Egypt 3-1 Belarus
• Japan 0-0 Honduras
• Spain 0-0 Morocco

Quarterfinal Match-ups:

• Japan vs. Egypt
• Mexico vs. Senegal
• Brazil vs. Honduras
• Great Britain vs. South Korea

Men’s Olympic Football: Matchday 2

What an upset today, with 10-man Senegal besting Uruguay stars Cavani and Suarez. Brazil also had problems getting around Belarus’ defense, but they persevered and came away with all three points. But most shockingly Spain went down 1-0 to Honduras in the first half and couldn’t come back, meaning they are mathematically eliminated from the tournament. With today’s results all four groups have teams still battling for the right to move on to the knockout stages, so don’t miss the final group games on August 1st in what should feature some amazing matches. [Photo Credit: Getty]

Matchday 2 Results:

• Senegal 2-0 Uruguay
• Great Britain 3-1 United Arab Emirates
• Mexico 2-0 Gabon
• South Korea 2-1 Switzerland
• Egypt 1-1 New Zealand
• Brazil 3-1 Belarus
• Japan 1-0 Morocco
• Spain 0-1 Honduras

Men’s Olympic Football: Matchday 1

We all know that the Euro tournament dominates in Olympic years, but there sure are a lot of fantastic players in this competition. Brazil, the favorites for the gold, looked like they were in complete control in the first half of their match, but Egypt caused them trouble with two goals in the second half. The other matches featured the host nation drawing and a shocking Spain defeat to a deserving Japanese team. Men’s play resumes Sunday, July 29th. [Photo Credit: AFP]

Matchday 1 Results:

• United Arab Emirates 1-2 Uruguay
• Great Britain 1-1 Senegal
• Mexico 0-0 South Korea
• Gabon 1-1 Switzerland
• Belarus 1-0 New Zealand
• Brazil 3-2 Egypt
• Honduras 2-2 Morocco
• Spain 0-1 Japan