Soccer Tournaments

Peace King Cup and Peace Queen Cup

True Parents established the Sun Moon Peace Cup soccer tournament in June 2002 at the Little Angels Performing Arts Center, to realize the world of the culture of heart.

The Peace Cup is a soccer tournament for international clubs held by the Sun Moon Peace Soccer Foundation. It has been held every other year since 2003. The first three tournaments were held in Korea.

The fourth was held in Madrid and Andalusia, Spain, in 2009, and the fifth in Suwon, Korea, in 2012. Moreover, the Peace Queen Cup, which is an international soccer tournament for women, was held every second year, starting in 2006.

1. What is the origin of the Sun-Moon Peace Cup? This was not my initiative, but Heaven's own. As it originated from God, I tell you: do not approach it thoughtlessly.

If you treat it carelessly, problems will arise. We do this work because the providence moves in this way. Will it yield any profit? If one thinks as you do, there will not be any profit whatsoever. (381-248, 2002/06/14)

2. I am genuinely interested in soccer. I founded the Ilhwa Chunma soccer team and acquired the Sorocaba team, which is famous in Brazil. If world peace is to appear, sports will play an important role.

The nation that dominates sports will dominate the world. We will hold an Olympics-style competition between religions in 2003. On June 12, when the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea and Japan was at its peak, I founded a soccer federation called the Sun Moon Peace Cup.

It has become famous already. We welcomed Pele, the player famous player from the soccer kingdom of Brazil, and told him, “We need to begin a new FIFA.”
(384-030, 2002/07/01)

3. The American people like ball games such as American football, basketball, and baseball. Until now, they have not liked soccer. They ignored it because soccer started in the United Kingdom.

However, soccer is more popular than the Olympics. Soccer represents equality and equalization. Envisioning an equalized world, I intend to weave North and South America together.

If I have the spirit of North and South America, then Europe will follow accordingly. To equalize the world, we started soccer tournaments under the Sun Moon Peace King Cup. (411-305, 2003/07/13)

4. In the future, young people will work off their excess energy through sports and the arts. We are preparing for that. From now on, we will hold the Peace Cup soccer tournament every other year. It is a club tournament, so it transcends national-level players.

If it goes well, it could be very enjoyable. Amazingly, we could build up such a foundation in just one year. Each nation will select a player as its representative. They will compete to be admitted onto a team.

It is necessary for each nation in this way to establish a degree of international authority in the field of soccer. (432-223, 2004/01/23)

5. I founded the Peace King Cup soccer tournament. When I told FIFA that I would establish the Peace King Cup tournament, they informed me that it should not be bigger than FIFA.

When I announced that we would also create a women's Peace Cup, namely the Peace Queen Cup, FIFA also made a fuss about it. I will announce at the Peace Queen Cup tournament, “Now women's soccer teams have appeared, raising the banner of peace. Please have hope for these soccer teams! We are going to start the Peace Queen Cup tournament.” (539-201, 2006/09/20)

6. Hereafter, the fields of the arts and sports will lead the world. We are holding the World Culture and Sports Festival. Originally, I wanted to use the term “Olympics” in the title. But the International Olympic Committee opposed it, so we could not use that name.

We have to create a new name that surpasses the Olympics to combine the two fields of the arts and sports. For this reason, we will make the Sun Moon Peace Cup tournament. It will be for the sun and the moon, for Father and Mother, for the parents of heaven and earth, and will combine sports and the arts.

Through this, we will make world champions not only in the realm of sports but also in the arts, such as music and dance. (320-280, 2000/05/04)

Cain-Abel Wongu Peace Cup

The Wongu (Round Ball) Peace Cup is a festival and tournament for promoting the peace and harmony of humanity transcending national, racial, the religious barriers. On August 15, 2009, the Wongu Peace Cup North-South-East-West Cain-Abel Tournament for Harmony between Heaven and Earth was held at the Seongnam General Sports Arena in Gyeonggi Province.

On March 23, 2012, the Wongu Peace Cup Cain-Abel Tournament for Harmony between Heaven and Earth was held at the general sports arena at the Namyangju Sports Culture Center in Gyeonggi Province.

Won-gu (“round ball”) indicates that upper and lower, left and right, and front and back all unite completely, with one center, to make an undistorted balance.

The Wongu Peace Cup is a peace festival of complete unity, with True Parents at the center.

7. The Wongu Peace Cup tournament is greater than the Olympic Games. The Greek marathon, which was the flower of the Olympic Games, was created to commemorate the messenger who ran for about 40 kilometers to report to his nation the outcome of the war in which the Greeks defeated the Persians.

This remarkable contribution, devoting his body to the nation at the risk of his life, became embedded in the history of the Olympic tradition. We need to go beyond that. For this reason, I initiated the Wongu Peace Cup and announced that it would be an event that surpasses the Olympic Games. (611-287, 2009/05/17)

8. Wongu goes beyond the World Cup and the Olympics. The tournament called “Wongu” can do that.

The Chinese character won, which means “round” in Korean, consists of a square with people in the square. It means to take in the entire realm of all true individual beings.

There is no individual embodiment of the truth that is not included in winning. If only we could manage Wongu and the Olympic Games, we would create a realm that embraces all the hobbies and interesting things people enjoy.

Won has this meaning. There is another Chinese character won, pronounced the same, meaning “individual,” included in the Chinese character won. Furthermore, there are two Chinese characters for the mouth and one Chinese character for shellfish in the Chinese character won. In the Chinese character for shellfish, Cain and Abel are the legs holding up the Chinese character for the eye.

Therefore, Cain and Abel must look to God. Unless “unique,” “unchanging” and “eternal” support “absolute,” the term “absolute” cannot be realized. Thus, these Chinese characters are in accord with heavenly logic.

The name Wongu is so wonderful that the Olympic Games will surely pass on its torch to it. The Wongu Peace Cup Cain-Abel Tournament for Harmony between Heaven and Earth is a distinguished title. (612-276, 2009/05/30)

9. Both the father-son relationship and the front-back relationship can be woven together, with Parents at the center. The concept of Cain and Abel is a formula in the Principle. Thus, we founded the Wongu Peace Cup. The Peace Cup cannot succeed using one person alone.

There must be two parties. The Wongu Peace Cup stands in the Abel position, and one has to follow Abel to achieve unity. Not only the physical world but also the spiritual world has to be unified. If the Unification Church is not sure about spiritual reality, what will happen to Wongu?

In front of the global standard of Abel, the spirit world has to come down in the Cain position to attend Wongu. These will become one. Who can liberate God? Abel will liberate Him. Liberation happens through descending and becoming one.

Thus, if we organize Cain and Abel in every possible way, the world will turn around instantly, in a dashing torrential flow. (613-326, 2009/07/12)

10. The kings and queens of peace are in the position of parents, and the children of peace are in the position of Cain and Abel. Future generations can settle even if they may divide into a myriad number of branches.

I am not speaking merely of a safe arrival but of settlement. Wherever the seed of settlement is planted, it can sprout. You, too, should plant a seed. This is the conclusion. For this reason, I founded the Wongu Peace Cup. Representing the children, there are Cains and Abel's peace cups.

When a king and queen become one and take root as a family of harmony and unity, their heavenly seed can prosper eternally. Adam and Eve stand in the position of king and queen.

Cain and Abel stand in the children's position. If they become a family that unites the first and second generations and takes root, they can become an eternal seed. An ideal family is a foundation; it is like the seed of a king and a queen with sons and daughters.

On that foundation, individual embodiments of truth on thousands and tens of thousands of branches will prosper. (614-316, 2009/08/15)