FOOTBALL
Stadium
Australia - Olympic Stadium (110,000)
Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush Bay
Sydney
Football Stadium (42,000) - Moore Park, 3km from Sydney
Melbourne Cricket Ground (98,000) - Melbourne, Victoria
Hindmarsh Stadium (20,000) - Adelaide, South Australia
Brisbane Cricket Ground (37,500) - Brisbane, Queensland
Bruce Stadium (25,000) - Canberra, ACT
MEN
on SEP 30
Cameroon stuns Spain 5-3 in penalty kicks after going 2-2 through 90
minutes of regulation time and 30 minutes of extra-time. Cameroon wins
their country's 1st ever Olympic gold medal. With this win in the 1st
penalty shootout football final of the Olympic Games, the gold medal
stays in Africa. Cameroon had stunned Brazil
with a golden goal in the quarterfinals and Spain stunned Italy 1-0 at
the same stage. Spain easily defeated USA 3-1 and Cameroon put away
Chile 2-1 in the semifinals. Chile beats underdogs USA 2-0 to claim the
bronze.
|
CAMEROON |
|
SPAIN |
|
CHILE |
WOMEN
on SEP 28
Norway beat the USA 3-2 after scoring a dramatic golden goal winner in
the 1st-half of extra time. USA was trailing 1-2 and equalized 20
seconds before regulation time. Germany beat Brazil with 2 second-half
goals to take the bronze medal.
|
NORWAY |
|
UNITED STATES |
|
GERMANY |
Country |
|
|
|
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cameroon (CMR) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Norway (NOR) |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
Spain (ESP) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
United States (USA) |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Chile (CHI) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Germany (GER) |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
Total |
2 |
2 |
2 |
6 |
