Defending Olympic gold medalists Brazil stopped working to protect credentials for the guys’s football competition at the Paris 2024 Olympics after suffering a defeat to Argentina.

Argentina’s under-23 group clinched a vital 1-0 triumph over Brazil in Venezuela, sealing their area in this summertime’s competition at the cost of the Brazilians.

This marks the very first time because 2004 that Brazil’s guys’s football group will be missing from the Olympic Games.

The definitive objective originated from Argentinos Juniors forward Luciano Gondou, who discovered the back of the web after 77 minutes, taking advantage of a shipment from Brighton left-back Valentin Barco.

The credentials areas for South America were identified through the CONMEBOL pre-Olympic competition kept in January and February. Alongside Argentina, Paraguay protected their credentials with a 2-0 triumph over Venezuela.

Thiago Almada of Atlanta became the leading scorer of the competition, tallying a remarkable 5 objectives.

The guys’s football competition at the Olympics includes under-23 sides with the allowance of an optimum of 3 excess gamers.

Brazil had actually formerly clinched successive gold medals at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, thriving over Germany in a charge shootout on home soil in 2016 before protecting their title with an extra-time triumph versus Spain.