2009 Peace Cup

The 2009 Peace Cup Andalucia was an invitational friendly football tournament. It was the fourth edition of Peace Cup and was held in Spain from 24 July to 2 August in the cities of Madrid, Seville, Málaga, Jerez and Huelva. It was the first time that the tournament has been hosted by a nation other than South Korea. The winners of the tournament were Aston Villa, who defeated Juventus in the final.[1] They succeeded Olympique Lyonnais, who were the previous holders of the tournament through winning the 2007 edition.[2] It was one of seven 2009 pre-season friendly tournaments, the others being the Emirates Cup, the Barclays Asia Trophy, the World Football Challenge, the Wembley Cup, the Amsterdam Tournament and the Audi Cup.[3]

This article is about 2009 Peace Cup Andalucia. For other uses, see 2009 Peace Cup Korea.
2009 Peace Cup
2009 Peace Cup Andalucia
Copa de la Paz 2009 (in Spanish)
Tournament details
Host countrySpain
Dates24 July – 2 August
Teams12 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)6 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions Aston Villa (1st title)
Runners-up Juventus
Tournament statistics
Matches played15
Goals scored37 (2.47 per match)
Top scorer(s) Hulk (3)

Host and Venues

Host country

After the previous three tournaments were held in South Korea, the Peace Cup Committee decided that the tournament would be hosted by another country. In 2007, the Peace Cup organizers were connected with Sports Ministry of Andalucia and Andalucia Football Federation, after the discussion with the Autonomous Community of Andalucia, they suggested the cities of Seville, Málaga, Huelva and Jerez to host the 2009 Peace Cup.[4]

On 19 December 2007, it was announced in a press conference in Seville that the number of teams would be increased to 12. It was also confirmed that Real Madrid and Sevilla would be playing in the tournament.[5] The Peace Cup committee continued to negotiate with other "big" clubs, by 13 April 2009, eight more participating clubs such as Juventus, Málaga, Lyon, Aston Villa, Celtic, Porto, Fenerbahçe and LDU Quito, were announced.[6] Celtic and Fenerbahçe, however, were forced to pull out due to conflicts with UEFA Champions League qualifying ties; they were replaced by Atlante[7] and Beşiktaş,[8] respectively.

Venues

The official venue for the tournament was Andalucia, however some matches were played in Madrid.[9]

Seville Seville Málaga
Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán Estadio de la Cartuja La Rosaleda
Capacity: 42,649 Capacity: 57,619 Capacity: 28,963
Jerez Huelva Madrid
Chapín Estadio Nuevo Colombino Santiago Bernabéu
Capacity: 20,300 Capacity: 21,670 Capacity: 80,354

Teams

The following 12 teams confirmed to play in the tournament.[10]

Country Team
 Spain
 Málaga
Sevilla
Real Madrid
 England
 Aston Villa
 France
 Lyon
 Italy
 Juventus
 Mexico
 Atlante
 Portugal
 Porto
 Saudi Arabia
 Al-Ittihad
Korea Republic
 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
 Turkey
 Beşiktaş
 Ecuador
 LDU Quito

Details

Format

The 12 teams were divided into four groups of three teams. Each team played one match against each other in the group stage,[11] the first place in each group qualified to the semi-finals and the winners advanced to the final.

Prize

The champion and the runner-up received trophies as well as the corresponding cash prizes. The prizes were:[12]

  • Champion = €2,000,000
  • Runner-up = €1,000,000
  • Third and Fourth places = €500,000

Competition notes

Several players scored their first goals for new clubs in the 2009 Peace Cup competition, though these goals do not impact their regular season statistics. These players included Cristiano Ronaldo scoring his first goal for Real Madrid,[13] Diego scored his first goal for Juventus in the Peace Cup, and Marc Albrighton scored his first goal for Aston Villa in the Peace Cup. Aston Villa's Stiliyan Petrov suffered a dislocated shoulder in the competition's group stages that forced him to miss significant time with injury.[14]

Matches

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

The final draw for the 2009 Peace Cup was staged in Seville on 16 April 2009.[15]

Group stage

The first place (shaded in green) qualified to the semi-finals.

Group A
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Juventus 2 2 0 0 5 1 +4 6
Sevilla 2 0 1 1 1 2 −1 1
Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 2 0 1 1 0 3 −3 1
Source: [11]
Sevilla 1–2 Juventus
Squillaci  81' Report Amauri  26'
Iaquinta  64'
Attendance: 15,000[17]
Sevilla 0–0 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Report
Attendance: 2,000[18]
Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)
Juventus 3–0 Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma
Iaquinta  40'
Diego  52'
Legrottaglie  70'		 Report
Attendance: 1,000

Group B
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Real Madrid 2 1 1 0 5 3 +2 4
LDU Quito 2 1 0 1 5 5 0 3
Al-Ittihad 2 0 1 1 2 4 −2 1
Source: [11]
LDU Quito 3–1 Al-Ittihad
Reasco  20'
Ambrosi  42'
Graf  72'		 Report Khariri  74'
Attendance: 500
Real Madrid 1–1 Al-Ittihad
Raúl  55' Report Aboucherouane  63'
Attendance: 30,000[19]
Real Madrid 4–2 LDU Quito
Ronaldo  48' (pen.)
Granero  52'
Metzelder  71'
Negredo  90+2'		 Report E. Vera  68', 86'
Attendance: 45,000[20]

Group C
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Aston Villa 2 1 0 1 3 2 +1 3
Atlante 2 1 0 1 4 4 0 3
Málaga 2 1 0 1 2 3 −1 3
Source: [11]
Málaga 1–0 Aston Villa
Fernando  79' Report
Attendance: 4,000
Málaga 1–3 Atlante
Luque  24' Report Pereyra  16'
Márquez  66'
Bermúdez  72'
Attendance: 2,000
Aston Villa 3–1 Atlante
Albrighton  38'
Carew  48'
Ashley Young  62'		 Report Davies  19' (o.g.)
Attendance: 1,000
Referee: Alon Yefet (Israel)

Group D
Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Porto 2 1 1 0 2 0 +2 4
Beşiktaş 2 0 2 0 1 1 0 2
Lyon 2 0 1 1 1 3 −2 1
Source: [11]
Lyon 1–1 Beşiktaş
Källström  63' Report Nobre  84'
Attendance: 300
Lyon 0–2 Porto
Report Hulk  9', 75'
Attendance: 1,300
Beşiktaş 0–0 Porto
Report
Attendance: 500

Semi-finals
Porto 1–2 Aston Villa
Hulk  90' (pen.) Report Heskey  14'
Sidwell  37'
Juventus 2–1 Real Madrid
Cannavaro  3'
Salihamidžić  49'		 Report Ronaldo  42' (pen.)

Final
Aston Villa 0–0 (a.e.t.) Juventus
Report
Penalties
Bannan
Sidwell
Lowry
Young
Herd
Cuéllar 		4–3 Iaquinta
Trezeguet
Amauri
Melo
Del Piero
Legrottaglie


2009 Peace Cup Winners

Aston Villa

Scorers

Brazilian striker Hulk of Porto was the tournament's top scorer with three goals.

Broadcasting rights

The following broadcasting systems had the rights for the broadcast of 2009 Peace Cup:

La Sexta (all matches)[22]

ESPN (all matches)[23]

SBS (all matches)[24]

GOL TV[25]

SporTV[26]

Sport TV (all matches)[27]

La7 (semifinals and final)[28]

Teleamazonas (LDU Quito games, Semifinal and Final)[29]

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