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UK Football Team to Contest 2012 Olympics
The British Olympic Association must (and will) enter a UK team (or more likely, a "Great Britain & Northern Ireland" team) in the football competition in the 2012 Olympics in London. Despite opposition from the Welsh and Scottish FAs, worried that it might affect their independent status in FIFA/UEFA competitions, the BOA will select players from all over the UK. The Irish FA and English FA have already agreed, but there are fears the Scottish FA and Welsh FA may try to block this with threats of supsension from their respective national sides.
Follow up:
FIFA presdient, Sepp Blatter, has written to the Scottish and Welsh FAs assuring them that their separate status as footballing nations will not be under threat should they choose to compete, but this hasn't changed their minds. It's up to the BOA if they wish to pick players from just one side (probably an English team, given current circumstances) or select the best from across the UK.
The women will enter a team not only in 2012 but, if England manage to finish as one of the top 3 European sides in the 2007 women's world cup, will qualify to have a UK team in Beijing 2008 as well.