London: Brazil, Spain, Britain and Mexico have been chosen as seeded teams for the men's Olympic soccer tournament and will be kept apart at Tuesday's group-stages draw. The draw will separate European and Latin American teams.
In the 12-team women's draw, Olympic champions United States, world champions Japan and Britain are the seeded teams and will be kept apart in the four groups.
Hosts Britain, with a men's team at the Olympics for the first time since 1960, will lead Group A. Mexico, the top-ranked team among the qualifiers from Asia, Africa, Oceania and their own CONCACAF region, were seeded in Group B. World champions Spain will headline Group D. Brazil — the best men's soccer team in Olympic history despite never winning the gold medal — are the seeded team in Group C, with Spain in Group D.
Senegal became the last of the 16 teams to qualify. They beat Oman 2-0 on Monday in the final qualifier at Coventry's Ricoh Arena, one of the six host venues for the games.
David Luckes, the sporting director of LOCOG, the London Games Organising Committee, said that around 1.5 million tickets for the Olympic soccer tournaments were still available.
"It is important to note that the draws take place tomorrow at Wembley Stadium and that is critical to our next push in getting those tickets into the hands of the football-loving public in the United Kingdom and other parts of the world," Luckes told a news briefing on Monday.
"As we don't know yet which teams are playing at which venues, people don't yet know what match they are going to go to, but the fact we have already sold a million tickets is a very good position and we are confident we can sell the remainder of those tickets."
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