The 2005 Peace Cup football tournament took place between 15–24 July 2005 in South Korea featuring eight teams from around the world, split into two groups with the winner from each group then playing each other in the final. Tottenham Hotspur defeated Olympique Lyonnais 3–1 in the final at Seoul World Cup Stadium in Seoul on 24 July, to become the second team to win the competition.
Famous quotes containing the words peace and/or cup:
“Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“Sunday morning may be cheery enough, with its extra cup of coffee and litter of Sunday newspapers, but there is always hanging over it the ominous threat of 3 P.M., when the sun gets around to the back windows and life stops dead in its tracks.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)