FIFA rules on international matches

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In 1999, the world football association FIFA issued a regulation on international matches , which affects the rating of football matches as official A international matches . The world football association FIFA decided that games played by national soccer teams (including amateur soccer teams such as Great Britain and Germany ) in the context of the Olympic soccer tournament are only counted as official A international matches for the years 1908 to 1956, without exception. From the Olympic football tournament in Rome in 1960 or the previous qualification on the continents , the matches played at the Olympics (qualification and final round) are in no way considered to be official international matches.

This regulation particularly affects the Eastern European national teams, which with their " state amateurs " dominated the events at the Olympics until the new regulation of the conditions for participation in Olympic football tournaments in the early 1980s. From 1952 ( Hungary , again 1964 and 1968 ) through 1956 ( Soviet Union ), 1960 ( Yugoslavia ), 1972 ( Poland ) to 1976 ( GDR ), but also in 1980 at the boycott games in Moscow , at which the ČSSR (but already with a real Olympic selection and not with the A team ) won, the officially composed of amateurs teams of the state socialist countries won the gold medal every time. In contrast to their opponents from Western Europe , Africa or South America , their Olympic teams and the respective national team were identical, so that at that time the games against each other at the Olympic Games were going down in the annals of both participating associations as official A international games.

Due to the cancellation of the matches of the Olympic soccer tournament (qualification and final round) since the 1960s as official A international matches, Hans-Jürgen Dörner , Joachim Streich (both GDR ) and Grzegorz Lato ( Poland ) slipped out of the "Club of Hundreds" , the illustrious circle in which the national players are who have played more than 100 times for their country in A international matches.

The German Football Association lists further Olympic games of the GDR footballers in its statistics of record players, which were not even counted as official A international games by the German Football Association until its dissolution . Due to the inclusion of the final round games from Munich and Montreal and, in some cases, a double assignment of the matches played in Canada, 105 appearances in the GDR national teams are listed on the DFB homepage for both Hans-Jürgen Dörner and Joachim Streich . With this counting method, 102 selection games are even given out for Jürgen Croy , who played all twelve games of the Olympic football tournaments in Munich and Montreal.

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