2008 Viva World Cup

2008 VIVA World Cup

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Tournament details
Host country  Sápmi
Dates 7 July – 13 July
Teams 5 (from 2 confederations)
Venue(s) 2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions  Padania (1st title)
Runners-up  Arameans Suryoye
Third place  Sápmi
Fourth place  Iraqi Kurdistan
Tournament statistics
Matches played 14
Goals scored 59 (4.21 per match)
Top scorer(s) Giordan Ligarotti, Stefano Salandra
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The 2008 VIVA World Cup was the second VIVA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that took place in July 2008. The winners were Padania, who took home the Nelson Mandela Trophy. The tournament was organised by the Nouvelle Fédération-Board.

The defending champions and hosts were Sápmi. The competition, organized by the Sami people, took place from 7 to 13 July, in Gällivare, Sweden.[1]

Contents

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.

Qualified teams

The men's teams that took part were:

The women's teams that took part were:

Venues

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

The hosts of the games were:[2]

Overview

Padania became the 2008 VIVA World Cup champions beating Arameans Survoye in the final 2-0. The hosts Sapmi, after coming 4th in the group stage, ended by as a lucky 3rd after winning the last edition. The Arameans Survoye team were the surprise of the tournament qualifying for the final at their first attempt. Iraqi Kurdistan, also debuting, finished 3rd in the group stage but lost in the 4th place play off to Sapmi. To round of the places, in a distant last position, having lost all of their group games, was Provence, a region of France.

In the inaugural women's tournament the hosts Sapmi came through after an aggregate 16-1 thrashing of Iraqi Kurdistan.

Men's results

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

Men's First Round

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
 Padania 4 4 0 0 14 3 +11 12
 Arameans Suryoye 4 2 1 1 7 4 +3 7
 Iraqi Kurdistan 4 1 2 1 6 4 +2 5
 Sápmi 4 1 1 2 6 7 −1 4
 Provence 4 0 0 4 3 18 −15 0
2008-07-07
23:00
 Sápmi  2 – 2  Iraqi Kurdistan Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 1,300
Referee: Johnny Nielsen
Matti Eira  50'
Erik Berthelsen  63'[3]		 Ciawar Khandan  40'
Halkurd M. Mohammed  70'
2008-07-08
17:00
 Provence  1 – 6  Padania Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 600
Referee: Ragnar Dahl
Stephan Giordano  23' Michele Cossato  7'
Stefano Salandra  36'  45' (pen)
Giordan Ligarotti  36'  80'
Giacomo Ferrari  90'
2008-07-09
13:00
 Provence  0 – 3  Iraqi Kurdistan Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Attendance: 600
Referee: Mikkel Sara
Deyar Hamad Rahman  55'
Halkurd M. Mohammed  90+1'  90+3'
2008-07-09
17:00
 Arameans Suryoye  1 – 0  Sápmi Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ragnar Dahl
Tuncay Yüksel  62'
2008-07-10
12:00
 Arameans Suryoye  5 – 0  Provence Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
2008-07-10
17:00
 Padania  2 – 1  Iraqi Kurdistan Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Giuliano Gentilini
Stefano Salandra
2008-07-11
13:00
 Sápmi  0 – 2  Padania Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Giordan Ligarotti[4]  85'
Michele Cossato  87'
2008-07-11
17:00
 Iraqi Kurdistan  0 – 0  Arameans Suryoye Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
2008-07-12
12:00
 Padania  4 – 1  Arameans Suryoye Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Michele Cossato
Andrea D'Alessandro (2)
Stefano Salandra
2008-07-12
16:00
 Sápmi  4 – 2  Provence Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Matti Eira
Mikal Eira
Johan Anders Logje
Steffen Dreyer		 Stephan Giordano
Stephan Giordano

Men's 3/4 place playoff

2008-07-13
11:00
 Iraqi Kurdistan  1 – 3  Sápmi Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Ismail Hoshman Jalal Mikal Eira (2)
Mikal Stangnes

Men's Final

2008-07-13
20:00
 Padania  2 – 0  Arameans Suryoye Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Alberto Colombo
Giordan Ligarotti
 VIVA World Cup 2008 Winners 

Padania
First title

Women's Results

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

2008-07-10
18:00
 Sápmi  4 – 0  Iraqi Kurdistan Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Gry Keskitalo Skulbørstad (4)
2008-07-13
14:00
 Sápmi  11 – 1  Iraqi Kurdistan Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Gry Keskitalo Skulbørstad (5)
Marlen Hallen
Magdalena Esseryd
Mia Oscarsson
Ragnhild Fosshaug
Mia Carina Eira (2)

Sápmi win 15-1 on aggregate.

 VIVA World Cup 2008 Winners 

Sápmi
Inaugural title

Top scorers

Men

4 goals

3 goals

Women

9 goals

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.vivaworldcup.info/2008/en/01/1.html
  2. ^ a b c http://www.vivaworldcup.info/2008/en/11/1.html
  3. ^ Nedredal, Sigve (2008-07-08). "Uavgjort i første kamp i Viva World Cup" (in Norwegian). NRK Sámi Radio. http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_sami_radio/1.6130435. Retrieved 2008-07-08. 
  4. ^ Ballovara, Nedredal, Guttorm, Pulk (2008-07-11). "Sápmi misbrukte den siste sjansen" (in Norwegian). NRK Sámi Radio. http://www.nrk.no/kanal/nrk_sami_radio/1.6136183. Retrieved 2008-07-11. 

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