Copa Coca-Cola 2005 Comes to Massachusetts: Area’s Best Teen Athletes to Compete in the Most Exciting Hispanic Youth Soccer Festival in the Country
Some of Massachusetts’s most outstanding teen athletes will show off their fancy footwork and athletic prowess when the Copa Coca-Cola, an international soccer tournament, takes place May 21-22 at Ghiloni Park in Marlborough, MA.
(PRWEB) May 13, 2005 -- Some of Massachusetts’s most outstanding teen
athletes will show off their fancy footwork and athletic prowess when the Copa
Coca-Cola, an international soccer tournament, takes place May 21-22 at Ghiloni
Park in Marlborough, MA. The Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of New England and Coca-Cola
Enterprises, New England Division, will host the Copa Coca-Cola, the most
exciting Hispanic youth soccer festival in the country.
Up to 32 boys
teams and 16 girls teams made up of outstanding teen athletes, ages 13 – 15,
from local community and school soccer teams and organizations will participate.
The winners of Copa Coca-Cola in Marlborough will move on to compete for the
prestigious national championship title in Los Angeles in June and possibly for
the international title at Walt Disney World in Orlando, FL in July.
“We
are excited to bring Copa Coca-Cola to Marlborough and the surrounding
communities,” said Gary McCall, community marketing and special events
coordinator to the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of New England. “Copa Coca-Cola
provides an opportunity for local Hispanic youth to showcase their athletic
skills and talents on community, national and international levels. Further,
Copa Coca-Cola is an extension of Coca-Cola’s commitment to promoting healthy
and active lifestyles among youth and their families.”
Copa Coca-Cola
will be held in nine additional U.S. cities across the country this spring,
including: Los Angeles, Houston, San Diego, Dallas, Chicago, New York,
Washington D.C., Miami and San Jose. Internationally, the competition will take
place in 20 countries.
Coca-Cola created Copa Coca-Cola in Mexico in
1998, establishing tournament play between teenage soccer teams from Mexico and
South America. The tournament expanded to the United States in 2001. Since its
inception, more than 10,000 teams and 600,000 teens from the Americas and Europe
have participated in the tournament. Copa Coca-Cola is one of the only free
youth tournaments in the U.S., giving access to kids from organized and
unorganized leagues.
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