2008 Viva World Cup

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.

2008 VIVA World Cup
VIVA World Cup 2008 official logo
Tournament details
Host countrySápmi
Dates7 July – 13 July
Teams5 (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Padania (1st title)
Runners-up Arameans Suryoye
Third place Sápmi
Fourth place Kurdistan Region
Tournament statistics
Matches played14
Goals scored59 (4.21 per match)
Top scorer(s) Giordan Ligarotti
Stefano Salandra (4 goals)

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]

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:

  •  Sápmi (host)
  •  Kurdistan Region

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 Suryoye 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 Suryoye 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 4400143+1112
 Arameans Suryoye 421174+37
 Kurdistan Region 412164+25
 Sápmi 411267−14
 Provence 4004318−150
Sápmi 2–2 Kurdistan Region
Eira  50'
Bertelsen  63'[3]		 Khandan  40'
Halgurd  70'
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 1,300
Provence 1–6 Padania
Giordano  23' Cossato  7'
Salandra  34', 45' (pen.)
Ligarotti  36', 80'
Ferrari  90'
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 600
Referee: Ragnar Dahl
Provence 0–3 Kurdistan Region
Rahman  55'
Halgurd  90+1', 90+3'
Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Attendance: 600
Referee: Mikkel Sara
Arameans Suryoye 1–0 Sápmi
Yüksel  62'
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Ragnar Dahl
Arameans Suryoye 5–0 Provence
Muqdisi  2', 32'
Alan  5'
Kaplan  65', 81'
Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Attendance: 30
Referee: Jorgen Klippmark
Padania 2–1 Kurdistan Region
Gentilini  9'
Salandra  26' (pen.)		 Aziz  41'
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 1,100
Sápmi 0–2 Padania
Cossato  82'
Ligarotti  85'
Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Attendance: 400
Referee: Ragnar Dahl
Kurdistan Region 0–0 Arameans Suryoye
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 700
Referee: Per Anders Blind
Padania 4–1 Arameans Suryoye
Cossato  18'
D'Alessandro  40', 90'
Salandra  73'		 Muqdisi  64' (pen.)
Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Attendance: 150
Referee: Per Anders Blind
Sápmi 4–2 Provence
Eira  3'
Eira  7'
Logje  28'
Dreyer  83'		 Giordano  5', 14'
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 800

Men's 3/4 place playoff
Kurdistan Region 1–3 Sápmi
Jalal  90' Eira  6', 32'
Stangnes  8'
Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Attendance: 400

Men's Final
Padania 2–0 Arameans Suryoye
Colombo  9'
Ligarotti  14'
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
Attendance: 1,400
Referee: Monty Rieman
 VIVA World Cup 2008 Winners 

Padania
First title

Women's Results

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

Sápmi 4–0 Iraqi Kurdistan
Gry Keskitalo Skulbørstad (4)
Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget
Sápmi 11–1 Iraqi Kurdistan
Gry Keskitalo Skulbørstad (5)
Mia Carina Eira (2)
Marlen Hallen
Magdalena Esseryd
Mia Oscarsson
Ragnhild Fosshaug
Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare
 VIVA World Cup 2008 Winners 

Sápmi
Inaugural title

Top scorers

Men

4 goals

  • Stefano Salandra
  • Giordan Ligarotti

Women

9 goals

  • Gry Keskitalo Skulbørstad

See also

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-04-15. Retrieved 2008-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-04. Retrieved 2008-06-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Nedredal, Sigve (2008-07-08). "Uavgjort i første kamp i Viva World Cup" (in Norwegian). NRK Sámi Radio. Retrieved 2008-07-08.
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