World champions Italy, Brazil and Argentina all got their men’s Olympic football campaigns off to winning starts in Beijing.
Group A
Argentina were grateful that Barcelona allowed Lionel Messi to stay in Beijing despite winning their appeal to recall him as the diminutive winger scored the first and set up another to secure a 2-1 win over Ivory Coast.
There were shades of offside for the opener as Messi latched onto Juan Roman Riquelme’s superb through ball to slot past goalkeeper Vincent Angban. Read the rest of this entry »
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7 Aug 2008