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What is the Peace Cup?

February 18, 2009 | Tournaments | Add a comment

The Peace Cup is a men’s international club tournament organized by the Sunmoon Peace Football Foundation, which aspires to use the competition between clubs from several continents to promote world peace. The Foundation holds the Peace Cup and other various cup events in an effort to create world peace through the beautiful game of soccer.

The tournament has been held every two years in South Korea. But in 2009 it will be held in Spain for the first time. The Peace Cup has a format of eight clubs, divided into two groups of four teams each. The Peace Cup Organizing Committee has plans to increase the number of participating teams to 12.

In 2006, they started the Queen Peace Cup, the Peace Cup for women. The United States women have won both the 2006 and 2008 Queen Peace Cups, leaving Canada as the runner-up for both.  The next Queen Peace Cup will be held in 2010.

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any idea what teams are in it? how do they choose?

On February 19, 2009 Jake said

For the Men’s Peace Cup, some teams that will be playing in 2009 are Real Madrid, Sevilla, Juventus, F.C. Porto and Olympique Lyonnais.

And for the Women’s Queen Peace Cup the teams that played in 2008 were USA, Australia, Brazil, Italy, South Korea, Canada, Argentina and New Zealand.

Each team is invited to play by the Sunmoon Peace Football Foundation.

For more information you can visit their website at: http://www.peacecup.com

On February 19, 2009 Danie said

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