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
Netball and the Olympic Movement the sport could be included on the programme would be 2024. In an extraordinary session in Mexico City in November 2002, the IOC decided to limit the total number of sports to 28, events to 301 and athletes to 10,500, slowing the process of adding new sports to future Olympic Games. At the extraordinary session, the IOC set forth the requirements that a sport must meet before it is eligible for inclusion in the Olympic programme. The table created in the documentation for this meeting is provided below: The lack of Olympic recognition hampered the globalisation of the game in