9 Soccer Stars at the Tokyo Olympics

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —

Football branch Tokyo Olympics 2020 will certainly be interesting because there are many star status players who appear. Here are 9 soccer star players who will appear at the Tokyo Olympics.

Soccer at the Tokyo Olympics will start Tuesday (20/7). A total of 16 teams will compete for the football gold medal, which was last won by the Brazilian national team at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

The Tokyo Olympics regulates that players born on or after January 1, 1997 can play in soccer. Each team has a slot of three players over 24 years old to fill the squad at the Tokyo Olympics.

Not only senior players, a number of over-aged players selected to appear at the 2020 Olympics already have names and appear in top European competitions, such as the Premier League and Spanish La Liga.

While Olympic football is an event for young players, the prestige remains high. Countries that usually can’t be ‘noisy’ at the World Cup because they lose class, make the Olympics a means of achieving world-level titles.

Who are the world’s top soccer stars who will appear at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics? Here are the nine star players who will appear at the Tokyo Olympics:

1. Florian Thauvin (France)

The 28-year-old winger is no longer competing in Europe. Thauvin, who helped lead France to win the 2018 World Cup, chose to appear in North America with the Mexican club, Tigres UANL. Thauvin joins Andre-Pierre Gignac at Tigres, who is also in the France squad for the Tokyo Olympics.

2. Takefusa Kubo (Japan)

Takefusa Kubo strengthens Japan at the Tokyo Olympics. (AARON M. SPRECHER / AFP)- –

One of the things that makes Japan confident that it can make history at the Olympics is the figure of Takefusa Kubo. The Real Madrid winger, who is currently on loan at Getafe, has shone from a young age and is believed to be an Asian star on the European continent.

3. Guillermo Ochoa (Mexico)

In any event Mexico has never been the top seed. Mexico has always been considered a dark horse. Mexico is back as a dark horse at the Tokyo Olympics. One of Mexico’s key players to hit the ground running is 36-year-old goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa.

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