Milk Cup
The Milk Cup is an international youth football tournament held annually in Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1983 as a U-16 competition. 1985 was added in a U-14 competition, and since 1995, a U-19 competition will also be held. While playing club teams to the Milk Cup in the U-14 and U-16 competition, take the U-19 youth national contest. The games of the Milk Cup will take place mainly on the north coast of Northern Ireland and indeed in the towns Portrush, Portstewart, Castlerock, Limavady, Coleraine, Ballymoney, Ballymena and Broughshane.
History
The Milk Cup in 1983, held for the first time with sixteen participating teams in the U-16 range. Motherwell F. C. from Scotland was the first tournament winner. The tournament was founded by Jim Weir, Victor Leonard, George Logan and Bertie Peacock, one of the most famous football players in the region.
In 1985, the U-14 range was introduced and the first winner, Rangers FC, also came from Scotland. The competition has grown over the years in both age groups being increasingly teams of all continents speak to each other in the tournament. The U-19 range was introduced in 1995, the Welsh U-19 national team became the first winner of the tournament in this age group. Traditionally, the finals will be played on Friday night at the Coleraine Showgrounds stadium.
Many current internationally active soccer player Charlie Davies, Jonathan Spector, Paul Scholes and Wayne Rooney In FIFA World Cup 2002 played 30 football players who had taken part in the Milk Cup.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the tournament, was on 14 July 2007 a friendly game of Northern Ireland national football team and the viermlaligen U-14 tournament winners Everton FC held in Coleraine Showgrounds stadium that Everton won 2-0.
One of the important features of the Milk Cup is the integration of six representative teams from each county in Northern Ireland, Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. This system allows young games from all parts of Northern Ireland, to compete against the best teams in the world of their age group.
Winner
Reporting
Since 2005, the Milk Cup will be broadcast by BBC Northern Ireland, the reporting of Ulster Television is adopted. The changes taking place on Friday evening finals of the U -19 and U-16 age group will be broadcast live on BBC 2 Northern Ireland. The highlights of the U-14 Final game of the afternoon are also shown in a summary.
Some other games of the Milk Cup will also be broadcast on BBC 2 Northern Ireland. The other countries of the United Kingdom can check on BBCi and the BBC SPORT website about the tournament. Some games of the Milk Cup to be streamed online and on the website of BBC Northern Ireland. The football games are usually moderated by Stephen Watson. In recent years, BBC football commentator Jackie Fullerton, Michael McNamee, Paul Gilmour, Joel Taggart and experts such as John O'Neill, Gerry Armstrong and Oran Kearney were used.