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Posted August 01, 2015 11:56 · last edited August 01, 2015 12:01

Masty wrote:

...cue EG - or whoever wants to lead the rebuttal. If anyone can be bothered anymore.

But yes, there seems to be three sets of rules superseding each other.

From what others have researched, it sounds like the FIFA rules out-rank the Pacific Games rules which out-rank the Olympic rules.

But given it's a qualifying tournament FOR the Olympic Games, that doesn't seem right.

We broke the FIFA rules, and I guess because FIFA runs the football at the Olympics - that rules us out.

But surely the football's for the Olympics, not the other way around.

Which brings me back to my thinking around 30 pages ago - maybe more, probably not less - ...shouldn't there be one singular eligibility criteria over the entire Olympics??

but they are Fifas rules and they are written specifically for qualification events for the Rio 2016 Olympic Football Tournaments http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/rio2016_files/fifa-football-en.pdf

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nomeans edited August 01, 2015 12:01

Masty wrote:

...cue EG - or whoever wants to lead the rebuttal. If anyone can be bothered anymore.

But yes, there seems to be three sets of rules superseding each other.

From what others have researched, it sounds like the FIFA rules out-rank the Pacific Games rules which out-rank the Olympic rules.

But given it's a qualifying tournament FOR the Olympic Games, that doesn't seem right.

We broke the FIFA rules, and I guess because FIFA runs the football at the Olympics - that rules us out.

But surely the football's for the Olympics, not the other way around.

Which brings me back to my thinking around 30 pages ago - maybe more, probably not less - ...shouldn't there be one singular eligibility criteria over the entire Olympics??

but they are Fifas rules and they are written specifically for football at rio 2016 http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/rio2016_files/fifa-football-en.pdf

nomeans edited August 01, 2015 11:57

Masty wrote:

...cue EG - or whoever wants to lead the rebuttal. If anyone can be bothered anymore.

But yes, there seems to be three sets of rules superseding each other.

From what others have researched, it sounds like the FIFA rules out-rank the Pacific Games rules which out-rank the Olympic rules.

But given it's a qualifying tournament FOR the Olympic Games, that doesn't seem right.

We broke the FIFA rules, and I guess because FIFA runs the football at the Olympics - that rules us out.

But surely the football's for the Olympics, not the other way around.

Which brings me back to my thinking around 30 pages ago - maybe more, probably not less - ...shouldn't there be one singular eligibility criteria over the entire Olympics??

but they are Fifas rules http://www.rio2016.com/sites/default/files/users/rio2016_files/fifa-football-en.pdf