Viva World Cup
football tournament
The Viva World Cup is an international association football tournament organized by the N.F.-Board, an umbrella association for teams unaffiliated with FIFA, held five times between 2006 and 2012.
History
Early years
The oldest precedent of the Viva World Cup was the Alternative Worldwide Cup of 1988, developed in Jordan.
Inauguration
In April 2005, the NF-Board announced that the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus had been chosen to host the inaugural Viva World Cup, having successfully hosted the KTFF 50th Anniversary Cup, a tournament to celebrate 50 years of the Cyprus Turkish Football Federation, featuring fellow NF-Board member Sápmi and FIFA-unaffiliated Kosovo. The NF-Board hoped that sixteen teams would take part, drawn from across its membership.
ELF Cup
In spring 2005, the new government elected in the Cyprus Turkish Football Federation (KTFF) was keen to foster relations with other nations. The NF-Board claim that the government of Ferdi Sabit Soyer insisted on restricting which teams could and could not take part in order to head off potential political arguments. For their part, the KTFF claim that the NF-Board made unreasonable financial demands.
The upshot of this was that the NF-Board decided to grant the hosting rights for the tournament to Occitania. In response, the KTFF announced that they would hold their own tournament, the ELF Cup, scheduled for the same time as the Viva World Cup. Some NF-Board members accepted the invitations to take part in the ELF Cup.
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