Great Britain Olympic football team Great Britain's group. The final 18 man squad for the Olympic Games was announced on 2 July 2012. A pre-tournament training camp was held in Marbella, Spain. This included a training match against Mexico, which Mexico won 1–0. All players in the squad played for between 45 and 75 minutes. The team then played one official friendly match, against Brazil at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough on 20 July, which was won 2–0 by Brazil. Great Britain's first match was a 1–1 draw with Senegal at Old Trafford in Manchester on 26 July. Craig Bellamy scored for Great Britain in
Brazil at the 2015 Pan American Games competitions will be the only sports without Brazilian representation at these games. On July 4, 2015 the swimmer Thiago Pereira was named the flagbearer of the team during the opening ceremony. Pereira has already been the Brazilian flagbearer during the 2007 Pan American Games closing ceremony. The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are not counted as athletes: The following competitors from Brazil won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. Brazil qualified two male and three