Great Britain's Olympic football team will be denied England’s best players after Stuart Pearce announced that nobody involved in Euro 2012 will be considered for selection for the London Games.

Wayne Rooney and Jack Wilshere have been among the Englishmen to have expressed an interest in appearing at the Olympics.

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But the team will comprise English players who fail to make the cut for Fabio Capello’s 23-man squad for the European Championship in Poland and Ukraine as well as a selection of top stars from other Home Nations, in particular Wales’s Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey.

However, the FA of Wales were last night still opposed to their footballers appearing for Team GB.

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