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The Sydney Festival of Football was an association football friendly tournament competition hosted by A-League club Sydney FC in 2010, held in Sydney and funded by the Events NSW department of the New South Wales Government. It was intended to be an annual event, with Sydney FC contracted as the Australian side for 3 years, but poor attendance from Sydney FC fans caused the even to make a loss and plans for future tournaments were scrapped. The event has not been held since and no plans have been made to revive the competition. The first and only tournament to take place so far occurred from 25–31 July 2010, contested by English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers, Rangers from the Scottish Premier League and AEK Athens from the Greek Super League, who eventually won the tournament.〔(Sydney FC to face Blackburn, Rangers and AEK )〕 ==History== The idea of an international club tournament hosted by Sydney FC was first brought up soon after the 2009-10 A-League season in which Sydney FC took out the Premiership & Championship. Sydney had been keen to participate once more in the Pan-Pacific Championship however due to unknown reasons the 2010 edition was not played. At the time it was revealed that they would be playing Everton, however rumors floated around a pre-season tournament between Sydney FC, Blackburn Rovers, Rangers and Argentinian giants Boca Juniors. However this fell through when it was announced that Boca Juniors would only be playing Melbourne Victory and Wellington Phoenix on their tour of Australia and New Zealand. Soon afterwards it was rumored that Greek Super League club AEK Athens would be going to Australia to play a friendly in either Sydney or Melbourne, due to their large Greek communities. It was announced on 4 June 2010, that the tournament would be held between 25–31 July.〔(Sydney FC To Host AEK, Rangers And Blackburn Rovers In July )〕 The announcement was made by New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally, Sydney FC CEO Edwin Lugt, as well as Sydney FC players Terry McFlynn and Liam Reddy with manager Vitezslav Lavicka.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sydney Festival of Football」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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