The Olympic Football Women's semi-final match will start on August 6th, and the two focal games will decide the last winners of final confrontation. The first semi-final game will feature France against the new World Cup champion Japan. French team's performance in London 2012 is quite impressive, while the Japanese team tend to be more stable. The favorite son USA team will compete with Canada in the second semi-final game. Can the strong U.S team qualify for the final as they want to fulfill their defending champion dream? Canada can not be overlooked, because they have cruised to the semi-finals over lots of opponents.

Puerto Rico 1 - 1 Atlanta Usa -- North American Soccer League

Platense 2 - 0 Atlanta

Wellington Phoenix's starting line-up was Paston, Durante, Sigmund, Lochhead, Muscat, Brockie, Bertos, Fenton, Huysegems, Smith and Totori while Sydney FC lined up with Necevski, McClenahan, Griffiths, Fabio, McFlynn, Mallia, Chianese, Emerton, Lovrek, Antonis and Del-Piero.

Wellington Phoenix 1 - 1 Brisbane Roar

Adelaide United 3 - 1 Wellington Phoenix

Melbourne Victory 3 - 2 Wellington Phoenix

Curse! The 5-time World Cup winner Brazil was teased by fate once again, failing to win a gold medal in the Olympic arena.

AC Milan opened their Serie A season with a accident 0-1 home loss to newly promoted Sampdoria, while Inter Milan gained an easy 3-0 win over Pescara.

Wellington Phoenix 0 - 1 Central Coast Mariners