The event was organized by the Embassy of Ukraine to the U.S. for the second year in a row. Last year championship was dedicated to the Euro-2012 co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland.

The official partners of Ukraine’s Embassy to organize this year’s event included the Kyiv City State Administration, the US-Ukraine Business Council and the Kyiv Soccer Federation. 

Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Olexander Motsyk started the championship with greetings from Head of the Kyiv City State Administration Olexander Popov and made a first symbolic “ball kick”.

The team of the Ukrainian Embassy became a champion of the Diplomatic Mini-Soccer Cup, winning the final match with the Russian Embassy soccer team. The Turkish Embassy players won a victory over the team of the Embassy of Great Britain, a soccer founding country, and came third.

During the tournament, that took place of one of the most popular open air sports facilities near Washington, the soccer players were supported by the fans from their countries – family members and co-workers, as well as students of the local universities, representatives of the NGO, Ukrainian community and friends of the Ukraine’s Embassy.

Following the tournament, O.Motsyk awarded every soccer player from the winner teams with medals to commemorate a 100-th anniversary of the soccer Federation of Kyiv. 

The team of the British Embassy came fourth and received a special prize – an official soccer ball with Euro-2012 logo.

Following the Diplomatic Mini-Soccer Cup all the attendees got together at the Embassy of Ukraine to celebrate the tournament. The Embassy guests watched a final match of the UEFA Champions League Cup between “Bayern” of Munich and “Borussia” of Dortmund while enjoying traditional Ukrainian cuisine. 

The mini-soccer tournament proved self-evident truth that sport unites people, and became a remarkable event in the U.S. capital diplomatic community.  

In the photo: winners of the tournament - the teams of Russia (2-nd place), Ukraine (1-st place) and Тurkey (3-rd place)