The U.S. women's national team, as I previously stated, has qualified for the Olympics but the U.S. men's national team has not qualified yet. For the men under-23 national teams will be the one's qualifing for and playing in the olympics, whereas the women's national team will be the team in the olympics. The national team has no age limit and usually is the country's best team, whereas the other teams like the under-23 team that I mentioned is limited by age. The men's team are only sending their under-23 probably because World Cup qualifing has already started and the World Cup is a much bigger deal for the soccer world than the olympics. Virtually every country in the world has a men's national soccer team, whereas not every country has a women's national team so the world cup quallifing for the men's team takes longer than the women's team.
With that being said the US women's national team will be playing in a tournament over in Portugal. This tournament doesn't have any affect on who goes to the olympics because the women's olympic quallfying is already complete. Here is a link for that: http://www.ussoccer.com/News/Womens-National-Team/2012/02/Sundhage-Names-Roster-for-Algarve-Cup.aspx
The U.S. under-23 men's team will be participating in olympic quallifying starting March 22. Here is a link for that team. http://www.ussoccer.com/News/U-23-MNT/2012/02/Porter-Names-23-Players-to-U23-MNT-Training-Camp-in-Texas.aspx
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