2008 VIVA World Cup

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VIVA World Cup 2008

Tournament details
Host country	Sweden
Dates	7 July – 13 July
Teams	5 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	12

The 2008 VIVA World Cup will be the second VIVA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that is scheduled to take place in July 2008. The winners will receive the Nelson Mandela Trophy. The tournament is organised by the Nouvelle Fédération-Board.

The defending champions are Sápmi. The competition will be organised by the Sami people and take place from 7 to 13 July, in Gällivare, Sweden.^[1]

1 Qualification
- 1.1 Qualified teams
2 Venues
3 Men's results
4 Women's Results
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Qualification

Due to the inaugural status of this tournament, applicants were admitted to the tournament without a qualification process. As an untested tournament the scheduling doesn't meet the organizational capacity of a billion dollar organization like FIFA.

The official mascot for the VIVA World Cup 2008 hosted by the Sapmi people in Sweden

[edit] Qualified teams

The men's teams that will take part are:

The women's teams that will take part are:

Sápmi (host)
Iraqi Kurdistan

The presumptive men's teams that had shown an interest in taking part at one point are:

[edit] Venues

As a small tournament, like its European counterpart in Europeada 2008, this VIVA World Cup is not expected to bring in the numbers and financial support of Euro 2008 earlier this summer; the stadia venues are thus rather small.

The hosts of the games are:^[2]

Gällivare Stadium
Malmberget Stadium

[edit] Men's results

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)^[3]

[edit] Men's first round matches

Date & Time	Team 1	Score	Team 2	Score	Venue¹
Monday, 2008-07-07 23:00	Sapmi	-	Kurdistan	-	Gällivare
Tuesday, 2008-07-08 17:00	Provence	-	Padania	-	Gällivare
Wednesday, 2008-07-09 13:00	Provence	-	Kurdistan	-	Malmberget
Wednesday, 2008-07-09 17:00	Bethnahrin	-	Sapmi	-	Gällivare
Thursday, 2008-07-10 12:00	Bethnahrin	-	Provence	-	Malmberget
Thursday, 2008-07-10 17:00	Padania	-	Kurdistan	-	Gällivare
Friday, 2008-07-11 13:00	Sapmi	-	Padania	-	Malmberget
Friday, 2008-07-11 17:00	Kurdistan	-	Bethnahrin	-	Gällivare
Saturday, 2008-07-12 12:00	Padania	-	Bethnahrin	-	Malmberget
Saturday, 2008-07-12 16:00	Sapmi	-	Provence	-	Gällivare