News , updates , results from Asian Games 2010 in Guangzhou, China. U23 + 3 overaged players. Take place in November Who will be participating ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Asian_Games
For your information, South Korea will participate with an U-20 squad. There has been some talks of adding over-aged players like Park Chu-Young (AS Monaco) or Ki Sung-Yong (Celtic) in order to give them military exemption, but the chances of them joining the Asian game squad are very slim at this stage.
According to GAGOC, about 32 men's team and 15 women's team to compete in Asian Games 2010 Football tournament Venues: Guangdong Olympic Center Stadium "Aurora" - Capacity 80,012 Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium "Galaxy" - Capacity 60,151 Guangzhou Campus City Stadium "White Clouds" - Capacity 37,784
Panyu Yingdong Stadium - Capacity 14,818 Huadu Stadium - Capacity 13,395 Huangpu Stadium - Capacity 10,000
Let me continue to give you non-Korean folks few more details. The Korean government grants exemption from the 2-year mandatory military service to male athletes who win gold medal at the Asian Games or any medal at the Olympic Games. Thus the duty is an important criterion when we consider overaged players in squad selection for the Asian Games and the Olympics.
want to ask interesting question can Kazakhstan play Asian Games football ? they are UEFA member but Asian Games are organised by Olympic Council of Asia do UEFA/AFC have right for forbidding them?
They are a member according to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Council_of_Asia and there is a meeting to be held in Almaty in September, so they are members, but I don't know if the football team can play because they are members of UEFA. They might eb able to take part in other events but not football. Who knows?
Kazakhstan participated in the 1998 edition. Although that's when they were still part of the AFC. They became UEFA members in 2002 and haven't participated in the football tournament since. So probably they're not allowed??
hope Almaty or Astana will bid for future games... there will be football tournament without host nation
GAGOC announced details on Asian Games Football Tournament About 35 Men's team and 12 Women's team confirmed their participation in Asian Games 2010 Football tournament.application deadline set to be July 30th about the men's tournament, 16 teams (as top 16 ranked teams in Doha 2006) will enter the Group Stage automatically, they are China, Qatar, Iraq, Iran, Korea Republic, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Korea DPR, Bahrain, Kuwait, Japan, Hong Kong, Syria, India, Vietnam, Oman 19 teams to play in the qualification round,they will be drew into 6 groups, Winners of each group and two of the best runner-up teams will enter the Group Stage. in Group Stage, 24 teams to be drw into 6 groups, winners of each group and two of the best runner-up teams to enter the Quarter Finals, Drew of the aualification Round will he hold on Sepetember. Schedule: November 7 to November 11 Qualification Round Group Stage Starts at November 14 Final Macthes to be played at November 25
Syria will not participate according to latest reports. http://www.syrian-soccer.com/?page=show_det&select_page=6&id=4105
http://www.the-afc.com/en/component/content/article/29990-goal-is-to-win-afc-asian-cup-says-peseiro Saudi Arabia will field the U-21 team
South Korea squad announced -- includes two European-based players in Park Ju-young of AS Monaco and Ki Sung-yong of Celtic http://www.footkorean.net/hong-names-20-man-squad-for-asian-games
The squad is based on U-21 + 2 over-aged players. This U-21 generation advanced to the QF of last year's FIFA U-20 World Cup
http://translate.google.com/transla...://cnsoccer.titan24.com/2010-09-21/81971.html China, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Bangladesh, North Korea, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, South Korea, Jordan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam , Maldives