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AFRICAN champion, Nigeria, has been drawn in a fair Rio Olympics 2016 first round group that has Sweden and Japan. The Dream Team VI is in Group B, with Colombia, Sweden, the European tournament winners and Japan, which won the Asian version of the qualifiers. While Colombia beat USA in an intercontinental playoff to qualify for Rio.
Sweden won last year’s European U21 Championship in the Czech Republic after they defeated Portugal on penalties after a goalless draw in the final. They won the 1948 Olympics Gold.
Rio will be Japan’s 10th appearance at the Olympics, the best record in Asia along Korea Republic, who Japan incidentally beat 3-2 in the continental final of the qualifiers.
The men’s football event of the Rio Olympics will be from August 4 to 20. Nigeria won a historic Olympic Gold in 1996 and were beaten by Argentina in the Gold medal match at Beijing 2008.
— Apr 25, 2016 @ 01:00 GMT
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