Richland Campus welcomes players from

Tigres win their age division

Blanca Reyes

Editor-In-Chief

Richland Campus hosted the Dallas Cup soccer tournament again this year. The event, which is held during Easter week, was founded by the Texas Longhorns Soccer Club in 1980. The club launched the tournament because they wanted to return the fellowship that European teams showed to their teams that had traveled throughout that part of the world, according to dallascup.org.

The invitation-only event lasted nine days, with several games played every day at various locations. Richland hosted the games five of those nine days.

One of the teams that participated in the Dallas Cup 2023 was the Olympiakos FC from Hunting Beach, California. Assistant coach Aurelio Lozano said the expectation for his team was to win the tournament. The Olympiakos FC took the victory in his first game played during the tournament, 3-2, against the JB Marine Academy.

The Olympiacos FC got into the quarterfinals, but were eliminated by the FC Dallas Youth 4-0. FC Dallas played the finals in its category but lost to ODP National Select US Youth Soccer 2-1.

Results:

• 19U Boys: Gordon Jago

Super Group: FC Midtjylland (DEN)

• 18U Boys: Louisville City Academy 05/04 Purple (KY) USYS

• 17U Boys: 2005 ODP National Select (USA) Tigres

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