[November 18, 2022 – Harmon, Guam] The original Marianas Cup trophies officially have a new home in the FIFA Museum with the opening of the 211 Cultures. One Game special exhibit earlier this month in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Marianas Cup, originally devised to be a tournament featuring both the men’s and women’s senior national teams from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in a home-and-away format, was first contested in Saipan in March 2007. On April 1, 2007, Guam hosted the next match of the tournament.

Beginning in 2008, the tournament became an annual event with Guam and NMI taking turns each year to host. The tournament’s large perpetual trophies made of ifit wood and carved into a latte stone shape traveled with the winning teams. The tournament in its original set-up, concluded in 2010, and later continued with different youth national teams from Guam and NMI competing under the tournament name. .....

＞＞READ MORE "GUAM FA"