Chef De Mission, Mark England: “For the first time it looks like we might have more women than men in the Great Britain team
With the next Olympics in just over a year, FIFA has said that they had received agreement from all four home nations to create a unified 2020 team for Tokyo; however, this will only happen if England perform well in this years Fifa Women’s World Cup in France.
Football Association of Wales’ chief executive, Jonathan Ford, on agreement in Oct 2018:
“Politically we have always said it has been a very difficult one for us because we like playing as Wales,” he said.
“The Welsh fans like the Welsh team and we don’t want to ever give that up.
“Of course, there is an element of politics at play here, but we understand, especially for the women’s game, there is some benefit in our women having some competition experience and the Olympics provides that.
“Politically we are not going to align ourselves with it, but we are not going to stop our players.”
