Pequeña Copa del Mundo


A tournament held in Venezuela from 1952 until at least 1975.

Not much information is known. It was a kind of predecessor of the Intercontinental Cup, but with usually three to eight participants, half from Europe and half from South America. On the European side, the Latin Cup may have initially been used as qualifying tournament. Nothing is known about the South American selection criteria. After the early sixties the tournament rapidly lost in status as the quality of the participants decreased. The 1952 edition was the first.


Caracas Club Tournaments Overview


Palmares

1952       Real Madrid
1953 (1st) Millonarios
1953 (2nd) Corinthians
1955       São Paulo 
1956       Real Madrid
1957       FC Barcelona

1963       São Paulo  

1965       Benfica
1966       Valencia
1967       Athletic Bilbao

1969       Sparta Praha
1970       Vitória FC (Setúbal)

1975       East Germany XI

NB: for 1966, 1967 and 1969 it is not certain that tournaments linked
    from here belonged to the series.
    As the 1965 edition was referred to as the eighth, it is likely no
    tournaments were held from 1958 to 1962 and in 1964.



About this document

Thanks to Andrés Acosta (heyderblue@hotmail.com), Carles Lozano (ferrer@economistes.com) and Paulo Martins (pirolito1@hotmail.com) for additional information

Prepared and maintained by Carlos Pessoa and Miguel Alvim Gonzalez for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Carlos Pessoa (cpessoa@marlin.com.br) and Miguel Alvim Gonzalez (miguelgonzalez@openlink.com.br)
Last updated: 27 Jun 2007

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