With Ecuadorian outfit LDU Quito participating in the 2009 edition of pre-season competition the Peace Cup, and now that all of the other competitors and the groups have been announced, I thought that I would go ahead and create this thread, this so that LDU fans and others can discuss the 2008 Copa Libertadores Champions involvement in the competition (pre, during, and post) and any other issues and events related to the Peace Cup. The Peace Cup, which first went ahead in 2003, is an International Club Competition in place to promote World Peace. It is the biggest pre-season club competition in existence and tends to be taking quite seriously by the teams involved. The competition is held once every two years, and since it's first edition has crowned PSV Eindhoven (2003), Tottenham Hotspur (2005), and Olympique Lyonnais (2007), as Peace Cup Champions. For this year's edition the amount of teams participating has increased to 12, this as opposed to 8 which was the figure seen in previous editions. The competition will be based in the Andalusia region of Spain, will take place between the dates of July 24th - August 2nd, 2009, and will hand out prize money of 2 million Euros to the winner, 1 million Euros to the runner up, and 500,000 Euros to the third and fourth place teams. Below are the groups and teams involved in this year's competition: Group A Sevilla FC (Spain) Juventus FC (Italy) Seongnam Ilhwa (Korea, Respublic) Group B Real Madrid (Spain) Liga de Quito (Ecuador) Al-Ittihad (Saudi Arabia) Group C Malaga CF (Spain) Aston Villa FC (England) Celtic FC (Scotland) Group D Olympique Lyonnais (France) Fenerbahce S.K. (Turkey) FC Porto (Portugal) Official Peace Cup website: http://peacecup.com/