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Britannian Anonymous
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>>104540 Article 69 was added at the request of the 4 'home nations' credited with the invention of modern association football AKA soccer.
FIFA gave special dispensation for the four nations of the UK to enter separately as they each have their own football associations. This is why you never see a GBR/UK Olympic football team. Because London is hosting the games in 2012, there has been some debate about submitting a British football team, Sepp Blatter, the frenchie idiot in charge of FIFA was at first for it saying that it wouldn't affect the legitimacy of the four nations in FIFA or UEFA tournaments. However later he went against it saying that FIFA would want the UK to compete as one nation always should they do so in the Olympics. The GBR team never qualifies for the Olympic football tournament because they use the FIFA U-21 Euro tournaments as qualifiers. Even if England, Scotland, Wales etc were to win said tournament, they would not qualify because they don't exist separately in the Olympics. This would also upset everyone else as GBR would then have 4 Chances to qualify rather than just 1.
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