Fifa Boss Offers Olympic Assurances
FIFA president Sepp Blatter has reassured the Celtic nations, by ensuring that the team’s international status would not be affected by their player’s potentially appearing for a Great Britain Olympic team.
The British Olympic Association (BOA) is still hoping to include Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and England in a Team GB side for the London 2012 Games.
However, some of the nations have expressed fears that by joining a Great Britain side, it could harm their independence in the sport, but Blatter has reassured the countries that no sanction would be put in place, should the countries merge for the Games.
Blatter said: ‘The team will run under the denomination ‘British Olympic team’. The composition of this team, the FIFA has said, is absolutely free to the Olympic committee of GB and to the four British associations’.
‘It’s very clear. If they play, there is no sanction from the Fifa part’.
