Germany, Denmark, Portugal and Sweden are the four European nations to qualify for the Rio Olympic football comp after the Euro qualifiers concluded yesterday.
England finished bottom of their group, registering just one point.
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Never blindly believe anything FIFA says/reports lol ! .....England had 3 points (courtesy of beating Sweden 1-0)
I don't think England competes in the Olympics anyway as a sole country! They are part of the GB team!
Yes correct... England were not going to compete in the Olympics even if they finished in the top 4
England would have competed in Rio if (a) Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland had agreed to join England to take part in a Great Britain team as requested by England in March and (b) England had qualified.
However the offer by the English FA was rejected by the other UK associations three months ago:
http://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/news/y=2015/m=3/ne...
"The Football Association has expressed disappointment after deciding not to enter Great Britain teams for the Men's and Women's Olympic Football Tournaments after opposition from the other home nations.
The FA had told Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland it was intending to enter teams for Rio de Janeiro, but was met with resistance. An FA spokesman confirmed the plan has now been dropped, saying: "After careful discussion, The FA has decided not to enter either a women's or a men's team into the Rio Olympics 2016.
"We are disappointed not to be able to go ahead, given the fantastic opportunity it would have afforded the players and the broader exposure it would have brought to the game in our countries."
It was made clear that all four home nations would have to agree before the plan could be ratified. In light of that, the FA's director of football services Jonathan Hall contacted the other British associations on Monday to inform them it had decided to drop the plan.
FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce said last week: ''I was given an absolute categorical reassurance from FIFA that unless full agreement could be reached between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there would be no GB team participating at next year's Olympics.''