Comment on Rapids’ Djordje Mihailovic on Olympic team selection: “Shocked and excited”

Rapids’ Djordje Mihailovic on Olympic team selection: “Shocked and excited”

After he and the U.S. men’s youth national team failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics four years ago, Djordje Mihailovic didn’t think he’d get another shot. He grew up watching the Olympics, desperately wanting to be on that field. But Olympic roster rules allow for only three players older than 23 to participate, so the odds of making the team this year had declined significantly for the Rapids midfielder. Now 25, Mihailovic has defied those odds, joining Nashville’s Walker Zimmerman and Cincinnati’s Miles Robinson as the team’s overage players, U.S.

 

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