As for our northern neighbor, I agree with your assessment. It’ll be a tough draw. We have seen them come a long way though so hopefully they’ll pose some challenge to Sweden and even Japan.

I hope to see Great Britain make some progress in their group. Brazil doesn not look as formidable in recent days so I wonder how they will fare against Great Britain and so on. Brazil has decent chances of surviving their group.

Finally, I think it’s a shame that North Korea is allowed to play in this tournament. As we know, they are banned from competing in World Cup 2015. It would have been great to see Australia qualify and compete in the Olympics. It’s also too bad that Germany will not participate this time around. The national team has been on fire in recent tournaments and is only team that has defeated Japan in a post-World Cup tournament.