Soccer-US women out to reassert dominance, Brazil eye men's title defence

[ASFN Admin]

The U.S. women's soccer team are determined to make up for their quarter-final exit in Rio and reassert their dominance at the Tokyo Olympics, while Brazil will aim to repeat as champions in the men's event after ending their long wait for gold in 2016. The United States have won four of the six gold medals since a women's tournament was introduced to the Olympic programme at the Atlanta Games in 1996 and as current world champions they start as clear favourites again. Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and Carli Lloyd are among the forwards selected by Vlatko Andonovski, who has taken over as head coach from Jill Ellis and leads the side into his first major tournament.

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