article_snippet: The Football Association has expressed disappointment after being forced to scrap plans to enter British men's and women's teams for the Rio 2016 Olympics after opposition from the home nations.
article_snippet: An FA spokesman confirmed Plan has now been dropped, saying: 'After careful discussion, FA FA has decided not to enter either a women's or a men's team into the Rio Olympics 2016.
article_snippet: Team GB lost on penalties to South Korea to go out of the competition and failed to win a medal .
article_snippet: We are disappointed not to be able to go ahead, given the fantastic opportunity it would have afforded the players and the broader exposure it would have brought to the game in our countries.'
article_snippet: team mates off to training at Olympic Park, Stratford .
article_snippet: FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce said last week: 'I was given an absolute categorical reassurance from FIFA that unless full agreement could be reached between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, there would be no GB team participating at next year's Olympics.'
highlights_snippet: FA wanted to enter a men's and women's team to the Rio 2016 Olympics .
  
highlights_snippet: FA FA sent a letter to the home nations informing a men's and women's team of a men's and women's team intentions .
  