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In Groningen Marieke and the team created their own website for the One Nation Cup. Explore it!

Congratulation to the following players that have earned extra trophys for special efforts:

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Best Goalkeeper / girls - Kristi Joseph (Team USA)

Best Goalkeeper / boys - Göktug Bakerbas (Team Türkei)

Best Scorer / girls - Alex Thomas (Team USA)

Best Scorer / boys - Luka Dursun (Team Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Most valuable player / girls - Valentina Mühlebach (Team Switzerland)

Most valuable player / boys - Mustafa Kara (Team Turkey)

The Fair-Play-Price went to Team Japan!

Football is over – friendship lasts! An amazing football-festival ended up with an impressive party in the market place. The 2011 champions celebrated their success on the town-hall balcony and beckoned to their supporters and fans. Avery Miles, Coffee Fully Flavored and Nosliw produced a brilliant show on the stage. Bremen as its best – “we will miss you Bremen guys!”

We congratulate all teams for an amazing tournament and especially to the winners from Izmir and New Orleans. The game reports will follow, right now we are on the market place to celebrate with all of you the end of a fantastic week!

The final matches are certain: In the boys’ tournament the titleholders Turkey which won in the semi-final sovereignly with 4-0 against Team Germany met up with Team New Zealand. The Kiwis were also unbeaten yet and believed in themselves for succeeding. The team with star Liam Johnson has played together for more than 6 years and knows what is important in such games.
In the girls’ tournament the Americans won in the semi-final with 3-0 against England and played against a team they know from the group matches. The Dutch defeated the strong Swiss team and surprisingly reached the final, so they feel very self-confident – even though they lost their group matches against USA with 3-1.
At 12.00h the last One Nation Cup Day started with the games for the third place. At 14.00h there will be the girls’ final and at 15.30h the boys will find its champion.

Turkey, USA, Switzerland, England, The Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand and Bosnia were able to qualify for the semi-final, only one goal was missing for the girls from team of Bosnia as well as for the guys from South Africa.
The girls’ team from Sarajevo played awesome football but was also dropped out because of that missing goal, the same happened to the “Rainbow-Nation” and to the Japanese after they didn’t use their big chances!
The day ended up with a great party and barbecue in Sportgarten. The ball rolled on each court and there was music and dancing, especially the One Nation Cup dance, in the skate hall.

All the teams and some twin schools went to Bremerhaven to visit the Klimahaus who invited us. We all started the trip along the 8th longitude through Switzerland, Sardinia, Niger, Cameroon, the Arctic and Samoa. The One Nation Cup Crew experienced the importance of the climate and all its changes for life on our planet.
The Klimahaus didn’t only invite us but also organized an intoxicant party, so we say “Thank You” for that great Wednesday.

In the old town hall and with an amazing atmosphere Bremen welcomes the 14 participating nations  to the One Nation Cup. The colourful opening ceremony was borne by the high involment of the twin schools and showed the great anticipation of the participants. Tomorrow at 10.30am finally the first matches will be played starting with Turkey playing South Africa and China vs Latvia.

Yesterday morning the Kiwis from New Zealand were the first team to arrive in Bremen for the ONC 2011. Today two of the players (Michael and Adam) joined Marco Bode to take part in the Radio Show "Zebra 4".

FK Slavija Sarajevo from Bosnia-Herzegovina is the final team to confirm their participation for the One Nation Cup.

The capital Sarajevo is world famous for the peaceful cooperation of the different religious communities.

This is the city where Edin Dzeko the Bundesliga top goal scorer in 2010 was born - this shows great promise from this team!

The twin schools got to know each other and their scouts by playing soccer, basketball, beachvolleyball and climbing on a sunny friday afternoon.

Dinipiri tought the "One Nation Cup Dance" to all attendant pupils, teachers, scouts and helpers.

You can see the result next monday in the town hall, however you can watch us learning the dance out here:

Friday had the preliminary draw for the groups for the participating ONC teams, this was done in front of the representatives of the twin schools and participants of the Werder Bremen holiday camp. The draw had the assistance of lovely Lea and Kea who play for the Werder Bremen womens team. The draw had interesting match ups especially in Group B (boys) where the winner in 2006 South Africa will meet 2008 defending champion Turkey and in Group C (girls) will see Germany play the Netherlands which is a football classic.

What happens if Klimahaus, SiG Solar and the other One Nation Cup sponsors meet each other in Sportgarten? The sun appears, a lot of fun and many goals are for sure. Eight teams participated successfully. Barmer GEK won aginst roha, the Atlantic hotel had three hours of practice and achieved a 1:0 in the 5th place game against Klimahaus, whereas BLG chose the best players out of 6,700 employees, who could not even be defeated by SiG Solar. The team of Sportgarten beat OHB twice. Our motto PLAY FOOTBALL, WIN FRIENDS! was experienced by the participating companies.

Am Donnerstag, dem 07.04. treffen sich 7 Sponsorenteams zum Kick im Sportgarten. Ziel ist:  sich untereinander auch kennenzulernen und somit eine gute Grundlage für die weitere Kooperation beim One Nation Cup Festival zu legen.

Die Highlights werden wir Euch auf der Webseite  präsentieren!

On last Wednesday the One Nation Cup 2011 was opened together with 14 partner schools from Bremen and Niedersachsen as well as the gathered sponsors. In only 75 days we will welcome our guests from all over the world in Bremen.

Together with our partner schools we want to create an unforgettable stay and show our guests, thatremen really is a cool city.

Es geht los: am 9. März werden wir mit den Patenschulen und unseren Unterstützern in der Schauburg die heiße Phase vor dem dritten One Nation Cup 2011 einläuten.

Während des Kick-Off Termins wollen wir den Stand zum ONC 2011 vorstellen: welche Teams kommen, wer sind die Partnerschulen und unsere Unterstützer bei der Realisierung dieses großen Festivals.

Nach den Fakten kommt die Unterhaltung, schließlich sind wir in

Teams from Dalian and Yokohama represent Asia

We are very happy about the repeated participation of a Chinese boys team from our twin city Dalian and the first-time participation of a Japanese girls team from Yokohama. Already in 2006 and 2008 China was represented in the One Nation Cup and a Japanese boys team played the One Nation Cup 2006 in Bremen.

Status Quo: Only few tickets to Bremen remain!

Since the latest acceptances from Asia the number of participants for this year One Nation Cup keeps increasing. We are still looking for a girls team from Australia/Oceania, while some teams still have to figure out how to afford the travel costs. Concerning the boys there is just one ticket for a South American team left.

Funding of the ONC 2011 is secured

With the support of Bremer Landesbank the budget for the ONC 2011 is definitely achieved. We would like to thank all our faciliators and sponsors as well as our partners of Werder Bremen and the city of Bremen for their commitment.

The One Nation Cup webside is online

You already perceived it, you can now check our webside under www.onenationcup.com to find information and the latest news around the One Nation Cup. During the next weeks we will update you about the developments and continuously expand the page in the run-up to the tournament. This includes information about the different teams, the twin schools and the program of the ONC 2011.

You can find two clips about the two previous One Nation Cups – 2006 in Bremen and 2010 in Durban – on our homepage to bring you into the right mood.

Enjoy watching them!