Olympic information: Choice on NFL gamers competing in LA might come quickly

[ad_1] A call concerning NFL gamers' participation within the Olympic Games in 2028 might come within the subsequent couple of months, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell mentioned Tuesday.

Talking on the NFL’s annual spring meeting Tuesday, Goodell mentioned curiosity in competing within the Summer season Olympics has been a scorching subject within the league, including a decision on the difficulty might come quickly.

Flag soccer is one in every of 5 new sports activities being launched on the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. (Imagn)

"Effectively, I’ve heard instantly from a whole lot of gamers who wish to take part and signify their nation, whether or not it’s the USA or a rustic that they got here from," he mentioned. "I feel that is one thing that we'll proceed to debate with, not simply the union, but additionally the golf equipment. I feel each of these are issues that we'll most likely resolve someday within the subsequent 60 days."

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Flag soccer will debut as an Olympic sport in Los Angeles in 2028. Curiosity from NFL gamers was virtually fast after first being introduced in 2023. Since then, curiosity within the sport has picked up throughout the nation, with each a girls’s and males’s match to be performed on the Video games.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses the media on the NFL's annual league assembly at The Breakers April 1, 2025. (Jim Rassol/Imagn Pictures)

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"I do suppose the Olympics [are] a essential second for us within the flag improvement on a worldwide foundation," Goodell added Tuesday.

"Hear, the Olympics are the head of worldwide sport, and for us to have the ability to take part in that — to have each males’s and ladies’s flag groups collaborating from world wide — is a major second for us."