It was one of Mayor Jim Kenney's first ideas in office: Bring people together with a large-scale soccer competition -- a Philadelphia World Cup.
"Probably Day Two of my job, I was told to organize a soccer tournament with 32 teams," said Miriam Enriquez, director of the city's Office for Immigrant Affairs. "He [Mayor Kenney] wanted it to be just like the World Cup."
More details emerged Friday about Kenney's soccer tournament, dubbed the Philadelphia International Unity Cup.
The competition will include 32 teams, each representing a country, and will start in September. A knockout round, similar to the FIFA World Cup, will be held in October at fields across the city, and a winner will be crowned in the final game at Citizens Bank Park on Nov.