Spain's defeat wasn't the only surprise on another unpredictable night of Olympic soccer.
Canada has never finished higher than eighth in an Olympic soccer tournament, but John Herdman's side took a shock lead when striker Sinclair coolly converted after 22 minutes.
In a stunning upset Sunday, Spain was sent home from the Olympics with a 1-0 loss to Honduras, eliminating one of the gold-medal favorites at the group stage and ending Spain's bid to become the first nation to hold the World Cup, European and Olympic soccer titles at the same time.
He has recruited three retired athletes--an Olympic skater, a soccer player and a wrestler--to run for the legislature.
Unlike Olympic women's soccer, which has no age restrictions, the men's tournament is essentially an under-23 event, with each country permitted to select three older players for its 18-man squad.
Other athletes have signed up as spokespeople for FRS. They include Tim Tebow, a quarterback for the New York Jets, and Christie Rampone, the captain of the U.S. Soccer Team and Olympic Gold Medalist.
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Previous sporting events held in Britain, such as the UEFA Champions League soccer final and the Olympic Games, have had such amnesties written into their contracts, but experts say this is the first exemption made by a politician.
The shootout, created by former Israeli referee Yosef Dagan after Israel lost a tied, 1968 Olympic quarterfinal by drawing lots, reduces soccer to its most basic component: Kicking a ball into the net.
But as part of the Olympic Games, the U.S. Soccer Federation has made a really important commitment that I got to announce yesterday.
That's since changed, with the pacification of dozens of Rio's "favela" hillside slums, the discovery of offshore oil deposits that have flooded the city with petrodollars and Rio's role as host for the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games.
With the 2014 soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games to be staged in Brazil , the South American's growing sporting prominence has been recognized with the addition of a second Brazilian tournament in Florianopolis for 2014, adding to an event which will debut in Rio de Janiero this year.
There is little data on the economic impact on Olympic cities, but Mr Baade studied what the 1994 soccer World Cup did to its nine American host cities.
Over the next four years the Brazilian city will be a global hub of sport as it hosts the soccer World Cup in two years and the Olympic Games in 2016.
Joao Havelange, who led soccer's world governing body from 1974 to 1998 and served on the International Olympic Committee for almost half a century, resigned as FIFA's honorary president after a FIFA-commissioned report showed he had accepted bribes in the late 1990s.
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