{"id":1168,"date":"2008-07-24T14:03:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/166.62.41.2\/~holaamericanews\/2008\/07\/24\/the-stars-coming-to-the-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2008-07-24T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T14:03:28","slug":"the-stars-coming-to-the-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/the-stars-coming-to-the-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Coming To The Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina will be the favorite to defend their gold medal at the Beijing Olympics that start Thursday, August 7, a day before opening ceremonies. Each team can only have 18 men on their roster and only three can be over the age of 23. Argentina will play with FC Barcelona&rsquo;s Lionel Messi and Boca Juniors&rsquo; Juan Roman Riquelme. Argentina is in Group A with Australia, the Ivory Coast, and Serbia. The previous tournament made a star out of Manchester United&rsquo;s Carlos Tevez.  <!--more--> <br \/> Everyone&rsquo;s team, the United States, with Freddy Adu and Brian McBride will be in Group B with the Netherlands (Holland), Japan, and Nigeria. It&rsquo;s hard to believe but Brazil has never won a gold medal in the Olympics and it&rsquo;s the only championship they have never won. Alexandre Pato, Real Madrid&rsquo;s Robinho, and Ronaldinho will play for Brazil. Brazil is in Group C with Belgium, China, and New Zealand. Group D is represented by Honduras, Cameroon, Italy, and North Korea. The two best teams in each group advance to the quarterfinals. The final will be Saturday, August 23. <\/p>\n<div id=\"holaa-965611551\" class=\"holaa-after-content\" style=\"margin-top: 2px;margin-bottom: 2px;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><div class=\"holaa-adlabel\">Advertisements<\/div><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/progressiowa.org\/2023\/08\/take-action-with-progress-iowa\/?utm_source=news&#038;utm_medium=site&#038;utm_campaign=2026&#038;utm_id=News\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Progress Iowa Spanish 300&#215;250\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Progress-Iowa-Spanish-300x250-1.png\" alt=\"\"  width=\"300\" height=\"250\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentina will be the favorite to defend their gold medal at the Beijing Olympics that start Thursday, August 7, a day before opening ceremonies. Each team can only have 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holaamericanews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}