Acapulco

IOC, FIFA still at odds with regard to Olympic football

Acapulco, Mexico - The future of Olympic football is still up in the air, pending a meeting between IOC President Jacques Rogge and FIFA President Joseph Blatter.

"We still have not discussed the issue with FIFA. We have not scheduled a meeting, but we will schedule one in the future," Rogge said in an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in the Mexican resort of Acapulco.

The presence of players aged over 23 in the Olympic football tournament is drawing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) apart from football's ruling body FIFA, whose head Blatter is in turn one of the 115 members of the IOC.