Germany Olympic football team Brazil 7–1. The German team also achieved the longest victory of the tournament, thrashing Fiji by 10–0 on group stage. The following 18 players were called up for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Lars Bender, Sven Bender and Nils Petersen were the three selected over 23 years old players. "Caps and goals correct as of 20 August 2016." Germany Olympic football team The Germany Olympic football team represents Germany in international football competitions in Olympic Games. It has been active since 1908, and first competed in 1912. Olympic football was originally an amateur sport, and as the
Olympic Games podium with Natalia Paderina, a Russian shooter who had won the silver. In what became a much-publicised event from the Beijing Games, Salukvadze and Paderina embraced on the podium after the ceremony had ended. Terrorism most directly affected the Olympic Games in 1972. When the Summer Games were held in Munich, Germany, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September in what is now known as the Munich massacre. The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed