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 N.F.-Board.

2008 VIVA World Cup

VIVA World Cup 2008 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Sápmi
Dates	7–13 July
Teams	5 (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 played	14
Goals scored	59 (4.21 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Giordan Ligarotti Stefano Salandra (4 goals)
← 2006 2009 →

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:

•  Sápmi (host & holder)
•  Padania
•  Provence
•  Kurdistan Region
•  Arameans Suryoye

The women's teams that took part were:

•  Sápmi (host)
•  Kurdistan Region

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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]

• Gällivare Stadium
• Malmberget Stadium

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

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Padania	4	4	0	0	14	3	+11	12	Qualification to Finals		—	4–1	2–1	—	—
2	Arameans Suryoye	4	2	1	1	7	4	+3	7			—	—	—	1–0	5–0
3	Kurdistan Region	4	1	2	1	6	4	+2	5	Third-place match		—	0–0	—	—	—
4	Sápmi (H)	4	1	1	2	6	7	−1	4			0–2	—	2–2	—	4–2
5	Provence	4	0	0	4	3	18	−15	0			1–6	—	—	—	—

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(H) Hosts

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7 July 2008

23:00

Sápmi	2–2	Kurdistan Region
Eira 50' Bertelsen 63'[3]		Khandan 40' Halgurd 70'

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

Attendance: 1,300

Referee: Johnny Nielsen

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8 July 2008

17:00

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

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9 July 2008

13:00

Provence	0–3	Kurdistan Region
		Rahman 55' Halgurd 90+1', 90+3'

Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget

Attendance: 600

Referee: Mikkel Sara

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9 July 2008

17:00

Arameans Suryoye	1–0	Sápmi
Yüksel 62'

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

Attendance: 1,000

Referee: Ragnar Dahl

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10 July 2008

12:00

Arameans Suryoye	5–0	Provence
Muqdisi 2', 32' Alan 5' Kaplan 65', 81'

Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget

Attendance: 30

Referee: Jorgen Klippmark

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10 July 2008

17:00

Padania	2–1	Kurdistan Region
Gentilini 9' Salandra 26' (pen.)		Aziz 41'

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

Attendance: 1,100

Referee: Johnny Nielsen

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11 July 2008

13:00

Sápmi	0–2	Padania
		Cossato 82' Ligarotti 85'

Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget

Attendance: 400

Referee: Ragnar Dahl

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11 July 2008

17:00

Kurdistan Region	0–0	Arameans Suryoye

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

Attendance: 700

Referee: Per Anders Blind

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12 July 2008

12:00

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

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12 July 2008

16:00

Sápmi	4–2	Provence
Eira 3' Eira 7' Logje 28' Dreyer 83'		Giordano 5', 14'

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

Attendance: 800

Referee: Johnny Nielsen

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Men's 3/4 place playoff

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13 July 2008

11:00

Kurdistan Region	1–3	Sápmi
Jalal 90'		Eira 6', 32' Stangnes 8'

Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget

Attendance: 400

Referee: Johnny Nielsen

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Men's Final

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13 July 2008

20:00

Padania	2–0	Arameans Suryoye
Colombo 9' Ligarotti 14'

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

Attendance: 1,400

Referee: Monty Rieman

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VIVA World Cup 2008 winners
Padania First title

Women's results

The first edition, with only two teams, was won by the host, Sapmi, who beat Kurdistan over two legs with an aggregate score of 15–1.

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)^[2][4]

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10 July 2008

18:00

Sápmi	4–0	Kurdistan
Skulbørstad

Malmberget Stadium, Malmberget

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13 July 2008

11:00

Sápmi	11–1	Kurdistan
Skulbørstad Eira Hallen Esseryd Oscarsson Ragnhild Fosshaug

Gällivare Stadium, Gällivare

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VIVA World Cup 2008 winners
Sápmi Inaugural title

Top scorers

Men

4 goals^{[citation needed]}

• Stefano Salandra
• Giordan Ligarotti

Women

9 goals

• Gry Keskitalo Skulbørstad

See also

• ELF Cup
• UNPO Cup
• FIFI Wild Cup
• KTFF 50th Anniversary Cup
• Nouvelle Fédération-Board