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2012 Viva World Cup

international football competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ2315860 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2012 Viva World Cup was the fifth and final Viva World Cup, an international tournament for football open to non-FIFA-affiliated teams, played in the Iraqi Kurdistan. It marked a new record in the competition's history, with nine teams competing for the Nelson Mandela Trophy, from 4 to 9 June. Al Iraqiya signed a television rights agreement with the NF-Board and the Kurdistan Football Association to broadcast all the matches.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “2012 Viva World Cup” is international football competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Viva, World and international, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Viva, World and international is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “international football competition” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2315860. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “2012 Viva World Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.