Here is Sweden’s Olympic opponents – Göteborgs-Posten

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Now it is clear that Sweden’s national team will meet in the Olympics in Rio in the summer. It was a tough draw for Sweden’s women’s team and men will be matches in the Amazon jungle.

Pia Sundhage’s national team will face host nation Brazil in the Olympics this summer.

– awesome to get meet Brazil at home, it’s a real football team, says coach Pia Sundhage said.

She finds opportunities to progress to the quarter-finals are great and are happy to national team avoid troublesome trips, unlike the Swedish men colleagues.

– Beautiful and cool to be right in the middle, where here we come to like. Inspiring and great fun, she says.

The opening match is against South Africa on August 3 in Rio. In the second match awaits meeting with Brazil and the final match in the group will be against China.

Men’s national football team will play its first two Olympic matches in remote Manaus in the Amazon jungle. Not quite what coach Håkan Ericson had hoped for today’s draw.

– Spontaneously, it’s not what I had hoped but spontaneously what I had thought, so I can say. I had hoped to avoid Manaus spelort, first and foremost. I think down to it, he says to TT

– I was also happy to have avoided South American teams right up there but … Climate-wise, they have an advantage.

In the opening match will Sweden’s men’s national team face Colombia on August 4 and also Nigeria and Japan in their group.

in the Olympic tournament, men’s teams have three players who are over-aged, the rest will be born in February 1993 or later.

the groups for the ladies in the Olympics:

E: 1. Brazil ( 1), China (2) Sweden (3) South Africa (4)

Q: 1. Germany (4), Austalien (2), Canada (1) Zimbabwe (3)

G: 1.

United States (1), New Zealand (2) France (3) Colombia (4)

the women’s team starts with two matches in Rio de Janeiro – first against South Africa on 3 August and then to Brazil three days later. Group play ends against China in Brasilia on August 9.

The groups of men in the Olympics:

A: Brazil is (1) South Africa (2) Iraq (3) Denmark (4)

B: Sweden (1) Colombia (2) Nigeria (3) Japan (4)

C: Fiji (1) South Korea (2) Germany (3) Mexico (4)

D: Honduras (1) Algeria (2) Portugal (3) Argentina (4)

Sweden meets Colombia (4 August) and Nigeria (7 August) in Manaus before the group stage ends against Japan in Salvador (10 August).