Football At The Summer Olympics
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, has been included in every Summer Olympic Games except 1896 and 1932 as a men's competition sport. Women's football was added to the official program in 1996.
Read more about Football At The Summer Olympics: Early History, British Successes, 1920s and The Rise of Uruguay, Olympics After The First World Cup, Changes and Developments, British Non-involvement, Venues, Events, Men's Tournament, Women's Tournament
Famous quotes containing the words football and/or summer:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)