All you need to know about the Tokyo Olympics draw today
Today, Wednesday morning, all eyes are on the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, to watch the draw ceremony for the football competitions in the Olympic Games “Tokyo 2020”, in which the national team, led by coach Shawky Gharib, will participate in the third category, after its success in winning the African Cup of Nations. The last under 23 years.
The date and place of the lottery
The draw will be held at 11 am Cairo time in the Swiss city of Zurich, where FIFA is based, and it will be broadcast on the FIFA channel via the "YouTube" site.
The date for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
The Olympiad was supposed to be held last summer, but it was postponed due to the emerging corona virus (Covid 19) crisis, so that the Tokyo Olympics would start on July 23 and end on August 8, with the participating teams divided into 4 groups, and the leaders and runners-up qualify for the quarter-finals directly. .
Classification of the Egyptian national team in the Olympiad draw
The 16 teams were divided before the draw into 4 levels according to their results in the last 5 Olympic Games, with additional points awarded to the champions of continental competitions, which means that Egypt will get additional points after winning the African U-23 Cup in 2019.
The first classification includes Japan, the host of hospitality, in addition to the teams of Brazil, Argentina and South Korea, and in the second level the teams of Mexico, Germany, Honduras and Spain, and the national team is in the third classification with New Zealand, the Ivory Coast and South Africa, and in the fourth and final level, the Saudi, Australian, France and Romanian teams come. .
How did the pharaohs qualify for the Olympiad?
The Egyptian Olympic team, led by Shawky Gharib, qualified for the Olympic Games in Tokyo next summer, after being crowned champion of the Under-23 Africa Cup of Nations that was held in Egypt in 2019, where Egypt succeeded in winning the Cote d'Ivoire national team with two goals against a goal. In the final match, after extending the extra sets, Karim Al-Iraqi and Ramadan Subhi scored the Pharaohs' double in this match.
The last appearance of the Egyptian team was in the 2012 London Olympics, during which it achieved a lonely victory beside a single draw, and a loss in two matches, and Egypt did not participate in any football competitions for the Olympiad versions 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2016.
Most won the Olympiad
It is noteworthy that Brazil snatched the gold medal in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, by winning a penalty shootout over Germany in the final. The Czech Republic, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Mexico, Canada and Cameroon.
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