The possibility of Team GB contending in the Olympic football competition at Tokyo 2020 looks more probable after the home countries held chats on the issue before the Uefa congress in Athens on Wednesday.
The directors and CEOs of the four British football affiliations met for what new Football Association administrator Greg Clarke portrayed as "four equivalent nations having an exchange".
What's more, Clarke said they will keep on discussing the matter every year following quite a while of not conversing with each other, for reasons he said no one could recall.
Group GB handled Olympic football groups at London 2012 without precedent for over five decades however no endeavor was made to rehash the investigation for Rio, with the Football Association of Wales, Irish Football Association and Scottish Football Association stressed that any move to play as a brought together group could entice Fifa to rethink their autonomous status.But FA CEO Martin Glenn trusts that is no more a worry.
"Fifa has demonstrated that it's not an issue," said Glenn not long after the vote to choose Aleksander Ceferin as new Uefa president.
"The huge apprehension in the past was that in the event that we did it we would endanger our free nation status. In any case, that was sorted out under (previous Fifa president Sepp) Blatter really and (new president) Gianni Infantino has fortified it."So that is not the issue. The issue is the individual interests of every home country.
"There's a Great Britain enthusiasm, of which we're all part, yet does it suit the individual enthusiasm of (every) home country? What's more, that is what we're going to work through."
This will be invited by the British Olympic Association, which was especially disturbed in Rio that it had been not able field a ladies' group. In his end-of-Games survey, BOA CEO Bill Sweeney said he thought a honest to goodness decoration shot had been wasted.
That dissatisfaction was and still is shared by the players who might have made up the ladies' squad, the larger part of them originating from the England side that completed third at the 2015 Women's World Cup.
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