Team GB Olympic Warm-ups Confirmed
The Great Britain men’s football team will play Brazil at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough on 20th July, while the women’s side will face Sweden as part of a double-header.
The men’s Olympic football coach Stuart Pearce, told BBC Sport: ‘In world football they don’t come much bigger than Brazil and it should be a terrific occasion for us.’
Brazil’s squad could include the likes of Neymar and Ronaldinho and will be the see only game the men’s and women’s teams will play before the Olympic football tournament begins five days later – beginning with the Team GB Women v New Zealand at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Pearce added: ‘I’ve learned a great deal about the Olympics since I was given the opportunity to lead this team and I realise just how massive an event it is going to be for the whole of Great Britain.’
‘Middlesbrough recently hosted an Under-21 game and had a tremendous crowd, and I think particularly with the Brazilian connections on Teesside it will be a terrific turnout again come July.’
It will be the first time a Great British Olympic football team has taken to the field in the men’s game since 1971 and the first occasion ever for the women’s.
