Blatter against British 2012 team
11.03.2008
Olympic qualification has been impossible as it is based on Fifa's under-21 competitions in which the four home nations compete individually. Blatter was speaking from Gleneagles, Scotland, where the International Football Association annual meeting has been taking place. The Scottish FA reiterated its opposition to a unified team during a meeting with Blatter on Saturday. "I said that is the best thing for you to do," said Blatter. "If you start to put together a combined team for the Olympic Games, the question will automatically come up that there are four different associations so how can they play in one team. "If this is the case then why the hell do they have four associations and four votes and their own vice-presidency?
"This will put into question all the privileges that the British associations have been given by the Congress in 1946."
Great Britain would have a men's team for the first time since the 1956 Olympics and a women's team for the first time ever.
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