The 29th Dallas Cup opens March 16th.
December 18th, 2007 . 11:39 pm .
By: Buzz Carrick
Dallas Cup XXIX has finalized the field for the 2008 Super Group for their 29th addition. Last year’s Super Group Champions Sao Paulo open the tournament against local representatives Andromeda SC on March 16th with a 3:00 p.m. kick-off at Pizza Hut Park Stadium in Frisco. Following the 5:00 p.m Opening Day Ceremonies, the 7:00 p.m. match-up will feature Liverpool FC and Slavija FK.
New Teams for the 2008 Super Group
- Andromeda SC (Dallas) – 2007 USYS National Boys Champions
- Leicester City (England) – 2007 Premier League Champions
- Ryutsu Keizai FC (Japan) – 2007 Prince Takamodo Cup Champions
- Liverpool FC (England) – Co-owned by Dallasite Tom Hicks.
- Slavija FK (Bosnia/Herzegovina) – From Sarajevo, host city of the 1984 Olympic Winter Games
- Whitecaps FC (Canada) – Part of the developmental system for the Vancouver Whitecaps USL 1st Division team
Returning Team for the 2998 Super Group
- Sao Paulo (Brazil) – Could make Dallas Cup history by winning three Super Group championships (tied w/ Real Madrid, SC Corinthians, Clube Atletico Paranaese, and EC Vitoria at 2 each)
- Benefica (Portugal) – Returns to compete after a five year absence.
- Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany) – Have promoted five players from their squads here in 2004/2006/2007 to their Bundesliga first team.
- CF Monterrey (Mexico)- holds the all-time Dallas Cup record for most championships won at all age levels
- Tigres (Mexico) – strong youth development program, which could have the opportunity to compete against their arch-rivals, CF Monterrey, both from Monterrey, Mexico
- CD Guadalajara (Mexico) – known throughout the world as Chivas, is one of the few professional clubs to restrict their team rosters to local players
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Ryutsu Keizai is interesting……they are a University who has a system that goes down to Jr. high….they have high schools in Japan that feed into the University as well as an entry in japan’s third division.
They are like the Oak Hill Academy of Japanese soccer
Buzz,
With a few notable exceptions this looks a fairly weak group for the Super 19’s so what gives?
It’s not too bad, better than last year I think. Madrid is the biggest missing piece from the great cups recently.
Andromeda in from Dallas instead of Texans or Solar I find interesting.
Why did CAP refuse? They had to be invited.
Any chance Freddy Adu will be with Benfica??
Rossi went with Man U a few years ago right?
And I thought the U-17 nats played in this as well? Or not? Sry for all the questions!
I doubt Freddy would be here. I think he’s just to old and was signed as a first team player. He’s not really part of their youth team. Unlike Rossi who was a youth player who had just gotten a couple calls ups. IMO
Yes the U17 and U18s have both played here, but not since Nike invented the Nike Friendlies. Nike being invested in the US set up and all.
Leicester City (England) – 2007 Premier League Champions
Do you mean this team won their reserves or u19 version of the premier league? Thats impressive for a club like leicester city.
(Also, Tom Hicks Jr is the son of the owner, not the owner.)
I think it means they are U19 premier league champs.
As for the Jr thing I cut and paosted that out of the Dallas Cup team blurbs. I’ll cahnge it.
The past few Dallas Cups have had a very heavy Adidas influence since they sponsorship has taken effect. Thats why Real Madrid, Liverpool (moreso than Hicks connections), et al.
Andromeda has earned their way into the Super Group by beating Texans & Solar in Boys Classic League, Premier League, and winning the National Championship last year. Its a strange name to see in this group, but they’ve earned it fair and square. I watched the game v. Solar in November that determined who would get the invite. I seem to remember a River Plate team getting consideration a few years back but lost the crucial deciding game in league play so they made the semis of the U19 group.
I think it’s clear the Dallas Cup has become the adidas alternative in many ways to the Nike Friendlies.
Adidas just signed up last year. Diadora was the sponsor for a very long time before that and Fila back before that.
I think this looks like a good lineup. Hope I can make it out for a game or two this year.
England sends their overall U19 Academy champions to the Dallas Cup.