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Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics
FieldValue
tourney_nameOlympic Football Tournament
year1984
imageOlympic rings without rims.svg
size150px
countryUnited States
datesJuly 29 – August 11, 1984
num_teams16
confederations5
venues4
cities4
champion_other
count1
second_other
third_other
fourth_other
matches32
goals84
attendance1425181
top_scorerYUG Borislav Cvetković
YUG Stjepan Deverić
FRA Daniel Xuereb
(5 goals each)
prevseason1980
nextseason1988

YUG Stjepan Deverić FRA Daniel Xuereb (5 goals each)

The association football (soccer) tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics started on July 29 and ended on August 11, taking place throughout the United States. It was the first Olympic soccer competition in which officially professional players were allowed. Until then, the amateur-only rule had heavily favored socialist countries from the Eastern Bloc whose players were professionals in all but name. However, as agreed with FIFA to preserve the importance of the World Cup, the Olympic competition was restricted to players with no more than five "A" caps at tournament start, regardless of age. Specifically, they allowed teams from countries outside of UEFA and CONMEBOL to field their strongest sides, while restricting UEFA and CONMEBOL (the strongest confederations whose teams had played all finals and won every single World Cup title) countries to players who had not played in a World Cup.

The soccer tournament was held in four venues:

  • Harvard Stadium (Boston)
  • Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium (Annapolis, Maryland)
  • Stanford Stadium (Stanford, California)
  • Rose Bowl (Pasadena, California)

The Gold medal game between France and Brazil at the Rose Bowl attracted an Olympic Games soccer attendance record of 101,799. This remained the record attendance for a soccer game in the United States until 2014, breaking the previous Olympic record attendance of 100,000 set at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia for the game of the 1956 Olympic Games played between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Rose Bowl attendance would remain the Olympic record until 104,098 attended the game of the 2000 Summer Olympics between Cameroon and Spain at the Stadium Australia in Sydney.

The attendance also stood as the highest for a soccer game in the United States until 109,318 saw Manchester United defeat Real Madrid during the 2014 International Champions Cup at the Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor.

Schedule

Event↓/Date →Sun 29Mon 30Tue 31Wed 1Thu 2Fri 3Sat 4Sun 5Mon 6Tue 7Wed 8Thu 9Fri 10Sat 11
Men's tournament

Qualifying

Main article: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Sixteen teams qualified for the Olympic tournament after continental qualifying rounds. Three Warsaw Pact countries had qualified but withdrew as part of the Soviet-led boycott. They were replaced as follows:

  • East Germany were replaced by Norway.

  • USSR were replaced by West Germany.

  • Czechoslovakia were replaced by Italy.

Africa (CAF)

    • Asia (AFC)

    • North and Central America (CONCACAF)

    • South America (CONMEBOL)

    • Europe (UEFA)

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    • Hosting nation

    Venues

    PasadenaBostonAnnapolisStanford{{location map+USAfloat=centerwidth=450caption=places=
    Rose BowlHarvard StadiumNavy–Marine Corps StadiumStanford Stadium
    Capacity: 103,300Capacity: 30,323Capacity: 34,000Capacity: 84,500
    [[File:Inter vs Chelsea at the Rose Bowl.jpg150px]][[File:Harvard Stadium aerial axonometric.JPG160px]][[File:2005 Stanford-Navy Game at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.jpg170px]][[File:StanfordStadium2004.jpg150px]]

    Medalists

    FRA}}<hr>

    William Ayache Michel Bensoussan Michel Bibard Dominique Bijotat François Brisson Patrick Cubaynes Patrice Garande Philippe Jeannol Guy Lacombe Jean-Claude Lemoult Jean-Philippe Rohr

    Albert Rust Didier Sénac Jean-Christophe Thouvenel José Touré Daniel Xuereb Jean-Louis Zanon

    Coach: Henri Michel

    1968}}<hr>

    Pinga Davi Milton Cruz Luís Henrique Dias André Luís Mauro Galvão Tonho Kita Gilmar Popoca Silvinho Gilmar Ademir Paulo Santos Ronaldo Silva Dunga Chicão Luiz Carlos Winck

    Coach: Jair Picerni

    YUG}}<hr>

    Mirsad Baljić Mehmed Baždarević Vlado Čapljić Borislav Cvetković Stjepan Deverić Milko Đurovski Marko Elsner Nenad Gračan Tomislav Ivković Srečko Katanec Branko Miljuš Mitar Mrkela Jovica Nikolić Ivan Pudar Ljubomir Radanović Admir Smajić

    Dragan Stojković

    Coach: Ivan Toplak

    Match officials

    ;Africa

    • EGY Mohamed Hossameldin
    • ETH Gebreyesus Tesfaye
    • MWI Bester Kalombo

    ;Asia

    • KUW Abdul Aziz Al-Salmi
    • KOR Kyung-Bok Cha
    • JPN Toshikazu Sano

    ;North and Central America

    • CAN Tony Evangelista
    • MEX Antonio Márquez Ramírez
    • CRC Luis Paulino Siles
    • USA David Socha
    • USA Edward Bellion

    ;South America

    • BRA Romualdo Arppi Filho
    • CHI Gastón Castro
    • COL Jesús Díaz
    • ARG Jorge Eduardo Romero

    ;Europe

    • ITA Enzo Barbaresco
    • ROU Ioan Igna
    • NED Jan Keizer
    • GBR Brian McGinlay
    • FRA Joël Quiniou
    • FRG Volker Roth
    • ESP Victoriano Sánchez Arminio
    • YUG Edvard Šoštarič

    Squads

    Main article: Football at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

    Final tournament

    Group stage

    Group A

    Xuereb

    Group B

    Cvetković

    Vrablic

    Shihab Nikolić

    Group C

    Brehme

    Silvinho Dunga

    Bommer Rahn Mill

    Kita

    Group D

    Willrich

    Abdelghani Soliman Gadallah

    Knockout stage

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    Quarter-finals

    Kita Ademir André Luiz Mitchell Bridge Gray

    Radanović Gračan Bockenfeld

    Semi-finals

    Jeannol Lacombe Xuereb Deverić

    Ronaldo

    Bronze Medal match

    Deverić

    Gold Medal match

    Xuereb

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    FRA Henri Michel
    BRA Jair Picerni

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    Final team rankings

    Note: As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.

    Statistics

    Goalscorers

    With five goals, Daniel Xuereb of France, Borislav Cvetković and Stjepan Deverić of Yugoslavia are the top scorers in the tournament. In total, 84 goals were scored by 52 different players, with none of them credited as own goal.

    ;5 goals

    • FRA Daniel Xuereb
    • YUG Borislav Cvetković
    • YUG Stjepan Deverić

    ;4 goals

    • BRA Gilmar Popoca

    ;3 goals

    • CAN Dale Mitchell
    • FRA François Brisson
    • FRG Rudolf Bommer
    • FRG Uwe Rahn
    • YUG Jovica Nikolić

    ;2 goals

    • BRA Dunga
    • EGY Emad Soliman
    • ITA Beniamino Vignola
    • IRQ Hussein Saeed
    • NOR Joar Vaadal
    • QAT Khalid Al-Muhannadi
    • USA Rick Davis
    • FRG Christian Schreier ;1 goal
    • BRA Kita
    • BRA Ronaldo Silva
    • BRA Silvio Paiva
    • CMR Paul Bahoken
    • CMR Louis-Paul Mfédé
    • CMR Roger Milla
    • CAN Gerry Gray
    • CAN Igor Vrablic
    • CHI Jaime Baeza
    • CHI Fernando Santis
    • CRC Evaristo Coronado
    • CRC Enrique Rivers
    • EGY Magdi Abdelghani
    • EGY Mahmoud El Khatib
    • EGY Khaled Gadallah
    • FRA Dominique Bijotat
    • FRA Patrice Garande
    • FRA Philippe Jeannol
    • FRA Guy Lacombe
    • FRA Jean-Claude Lemoult
    • IRQ Ali Hussein Shihab
    • ITA Franco Baresi
    • ITA Pietro Fanna
    • ITA Aldo Serena
    • MAR Mustapha Merry
    • NOR Per Egil Ahlsen
    • KSA Majed Abdullah
    • USA Gregg Thompson
    • USA Jean Willrich
    • FRG Manfred Bockenfeld
    • FRG Andreas Brehme
    • FRG Frank Mill
    • YUG Mirsad Baljić
    • YUG Nenad Gračan
    • YUG Ljubomir Radanović

    Discipline

    In the final tournament, a player was suspended for the subsequent match in the competition for getting a red card. The following twelve players were sent off and suspended during the final tournament:

    PlayerOffencesDateSuspensions
    ITA Sebastiano Nelain group D v EgyptJuly 29Group D v United States
    EGY Mohamed Sedkyin group D v ItalyJuly 29Group D v Costa Rica
    EGY Morsy El Alaain group D v ItalyJuly 29Group D v Costa Rica
    EGY Moustafa Ahmed Ismailin group D v ItalyJuly 29Group D v Costa Rica
    YUG Marko Elsnerin group B v CameroonJuly 30Group B v Canada
    MAR Mustapha El Biyazin group C v West GermanyJuly 30Group C v Saudi Arabia
    QAT Mubarak Al-Kaaterin group A v NorwayAugust 2None (Qatar eliminated)
    QAT Issa Al-Mohammadiin group A v NorwayAugust 2None (Qatar eliminated)
    CMR Théophile Abegain group B v CanadaAugust 3None (Cameroon eliminated)
    KSA Sameer Abdulshakerin group C v West GermanyAugust 3None (Saudi Arabia eliminated)
    YUG Jovica Nikolićin semi-final v FranceAugust 8Bronze medal match v Italy
    YUG Borislav Cvetkovićin semi-final v FranceAugust 8Bronze medal match v Italy

    Trivia

    The wave was first broadcast internationally during the 1984 Olympic football final, when it was done among the 100,000 in attendance at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.

    References

    References

    1. "Football at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games". Sports Reference.
    2. [https://www.footballhistory.org/tournament/summer-olympics.html Summer Olympics Football]
    3. (July 16, 1983). "Olympics Define Soccer Eligibility".
    4. Harvey, Randy. (1986-12-12). "IOC Takes Pro and Con Positions on Pros".
    5. Litsky, Frank. (March 30, 1986). "I.O.C. EXPECTED TO EASE AMATEUR POLICY".
    6. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071123213646/http://www.fifa.com/tournaments/archive/tournament=512/edition=8229/news/newsid=94154.html José Touré: "It was at the Olympic Games that I realised I was an athlete"] FIFA.com. Retrieved August 25, 2011
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