Vocalizing Sport

With 2012 now the next summer Olympics, global attention turns to London, the host City, however the British attention will be towards the FA’s of England, Scotland and Wales, as they will be trying to decide whether or not they will combine their most talented football players in a bid to win Olympic gold medals in the football, for both the men and the women’s teams. The FA’s of Scotland and Wales are worried because they fear losing their independent national football teams if they agree to join England for the Olympics.

Fifa will have to give their verdict on their being a Great Britain Football team at the Olympics, and for all three nation’s sake, they hope that Fifa will allow the Great Britain team to compete, but with England, Scotland and Wales all individually being allowed to compete in future World Cup’s and Euro’s.

Another main concern of the FA’s of both Scotland and Wales is that they feel that the players chosen will be mainly English, however there are three reasons that could potentially mean that there is an even mix of nationalities.

First is the choice of manager, as it looks as if Manchester United’s current boss Sir Alex Ferguson could take on the challenge, as it is likely that he will have retired from managing United by the time 2012 comes around. Sir Alex is Scottish, and so if he were to accept the job, then it is likely that he would have an even mix of talent from all three nations, especially as some of his more favoured players at Manchester United have come from the three nations, with Ryan Giggs (Wales), Gary Neville (England), Paul Scholes (England) and Darren Fletcher (Scotland) being some of those players. Sir Alex will be very much aware of the teams failure to do well in competitions such as the World Cup, and may look to combine the talent of the English players, and the teamwork of the Welsh and the Scottish players.

Secondly is the fact that there is likely to be a lot of young players in the team, and when they are around the age of 18, most young players are roughly the same, with only a few exceptions to that rule, and especially rare when it comes to the nations of Great Britain, with Wayne Rooney being the most obvious exception.

Thirdly is what Fifa will do, they may impose a quota to tell the manager the minimum number of players there has to be from each nation, similarly to the one they are trying to impose on the teams in the Premier League, as it seems Sepp Blatter, president of Fifa is sick of seeing Champions League semi-finals containing mainly English teams.