Australia football welcomes FIFA's move on Tokyo Olympics qualification

Football Federation of Australia (FFA) on Saturday welcomed the FIFA-Confederations working group's recommendation of retaining the original qualification dates for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
 
This recommendation came in the first meeting of the FIFA Confederation's Covid-19 working group, which was recently established to deal with the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
 
FIFA said that the Olympics should remain open to players born on or after Jan 1, 1997, as originally planned. If this indeed takes place, it would effectively raise the age limit by one year.
 
"FFA has been vocal in its view that the Men's