Dallas Cup

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The Dallas Cup is an international football tournament for invited youth teams, held annually in Dallas, Texas. It was first held in 1980.

1 List of Supergroup champions
2 Titles by team
3 Titles by country
4 2008 Tournament
5 Notable players
6 External links

[edit] List of Supergroup champions

Year	Champion	Country
1980	Texas Longhorns	USA
1981	Royal Navy	England
1982	Lagos Stars	Nigeria
1983	NSL Select	Canada
1984	NSL Select	Canada
1985	Trebor Lions	Nigeria
1986	Comets	USA
1987	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1988	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1989	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1990	Tahuichi	Bolivia
1991	Dynamo Moscow	Russia
1992	West Ham	England
1993	Real Madrid	Spain
1994	Real Madrid	Spain
1995	São Paulo	Brazil
1996	Vitória	Brazil
1997	Vitória	Brazil
1998	San Lorenzo	Argentina
1999	Corinthians	Brazil
2000	Corinthians	Brazil
2001	UNAM Pumas	Mexico
2002	Nottingham Forest	England
2003	Tigres	Mexico
2004	Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
2005	Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
2006	Dallas Texans Red	USA
2007	São Paulo	Brazil
2008	Liverpool FC	England

[edit] Titles by team

Team	Country
4 titles
Tahuichi	Bolivia
2 titles
Atlético Paranaense	Brazil
Corinthians	Brazil
NSL Select	Canada
Real Madrid	Spain
São Paulo	Brazil
Vitória	Brazil
1 title
Comets	USA
Dallas Texans Red	USA
Dynamo Moscow	Russia
Lagos Stars	Nigeria
Liverpool FC	England
Nottingham Forest	England
Royal Navy	England
San Lorenzo	Argentina
Texas Longhorns	USA
Tigres	Mexico
Trebor Lions	Nigeria
UNAM Pumas	Mexico
West Ham	England

[edit] Titles by country

Country
8 titles
Brazil
4 titles
Bolivia
England
3 titles
USA
2 titles
Canada
Mexico
Nigeria
Spain
1 title
Argentina
Russia

[edit] 2008 Tournament

The 2008 Dallas Cup was sponsored by Dr Pepper. Super Group U19 results:

[edit] Bracket A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
CF Monterrey	3	2	1	0	5	3	+2	7
Leicester City	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	6
Andromeda SC	3	1	1	1	7	5	+2	4
Sao Paulo FC	3	0	0	3	3	9	-6	0

[edit] Bracket B

Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Liverpool FC	3	3	0	21	2	+19	9
UANL Tigres	3	2	1	9	6	+3	6
Kashiwa Reysol	3	1	2	3	12	-9	3
FK Slavija	3	0	3	2	15	-13	0

[edit] Bracket C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sporting Lisbon and Benfica	3	2	1	0	7	4	+3	7
Club Deportivo Guadalajara	3	0	3	0	5	5	0	3
Whitecaps FC	3	0	2	1	5	6	-1	2
Eintracht Frankfurt	3	0	2	1	6	8	-2	2

[edit] Semifinal

Home team	Score	Away team
CF Monterrey	0 – 2	UANL Tigres
Liverpool FC	2 – 1	Sporting Lisbon and Benfica

[edit] Championship

2008-03-23 18:00	Liverpool FC	3 – 0	UANL Tigres	Pizza Hut Park, Dallas
	Krisztián Németh 10' Martin Kelly 26' Krisztián Németh 90'	(Report)		Pizza Hut Park, Dallas

[edit] Notable players

Yesterday Dallas Cup, Today World Cup The list of Dallas Cup alumni is like a "Who's Who" in the world of professional soccer. Dallas Cup has been very fortunate to have had such high caliber teams compete over the past 27 years and with those teams top players have gone on to play for professional clubs all around the world.

Professional players that played in Dallas Cup who are now on professional teams and World Cup teams are:

(Alumni Player, Professional Team, National Team)

Adolfo Bautista, Guadalajara (Chivas), Mexico

Diego Ordaz, CF Monterrey

Gerardo Torrado, Cruz Azul, Mexico

Jaime Lozano, Tigres, Mexico

Horacio Sanchez, Pumas

Gerardo Galindo, Pumas

Duilio Davino, Club America

Braulio Luna, Veracruz

Alberto Medina, Guadalajara (Chivas)

Gonzalo Pineda, Guadalajara (Chivas), Mexico