Aloha United is a Hawaiian Adult Soccer organization devoted to spreading Aloha around the World. We see soccer as a lifelong Journey that has has taken us to Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, US Mainland and Thailand. We host International tournaments every August and January and have sent teams to the USA National Tournaments in which we have 3 second place finishes in the 4 years in which we have participated.

The Thai World Cup is by far the best Tournament we have attended. Aloha United took a fun team to play at 5 different venues in 2007. Several of our players contributed generously to some Thai Charities. The Thai Soccer organizers were impressed with our Aloha and thus invited us to their Senior World Cup in 2008 and 2009. We are again invited to participate from 31 May to 5 June, 2010 in Phuket, Thailand. This is our 3rdTourney representing the USA against National teams from Asia, Europe and Australia. We have learned from past experiences that we need to take the best players from Hawaii in order to have any chance of winning. This team needs to practice , travel and stay together with strict curfews in order to have a chance against teams with many ex-National and professional players. This tournament is more than a soccer experience. It is also a cultural exchange with many children supporting the teams. You will be required to help train local Thai children and visit the school children that have chosen to support the Team USA.

If you want more information ,just travel with the team, contribute to the

team or the Charities that we support in Asia –

Contact Vic Peters at 808-487-6819 or peterv001@hawaii.rr.com 

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will be published and distributed to Hawaii Soccer Community and to teams at Thai Senior World Cup

After the 2009 Thai World Cup, 5 members of Aloha United traveled to Laos since it is only an hour away from Udon. Our Laotian teammates arranged for some great tours. We spent 2 days in some small village by Long Chang. We met the doctor, mayor and teachers in a small village. They showed us their school. It was originally built during the Viet Nam war and had large holes covered by cardboard. Many of these people live in poverty, but they were gracious hosts, sharing fresh fish from the Mekong and homegrown vegetables. We decided that building a school for this community would be our number one charity. Here is some interesting history about this area: documented by a movie just recently released:

The Vietnam War was the most intensely mediated war ever. However, next door in neighboring Laos, the longest and largest air war in human history was underway, which eventually made Laos the most bombed country on earth. What’s more, outside of Laos very few knew the extent of the fighting.

The Secret War was the largest operation ever conducted by the CIA, yet to this day, there is very little publicity of happen. According to this Movie Documentary a bomb load was dropped on Laos every eight minutes over a period of eight years –2.1 million tons of bombs fell onto this small landlocked South East Asian nation altogether, more than on Europe and the Pacific theatre combined during World War II. Until today much of the countryside is poisoned by Agent Orange and littered with unexploded ordnance. Only about 10% of the unexploded bombs have been detonated so there are still instances of young children playing with bombs or farmers having problems cleaning their land to plant crops. The United States sends money every year to address these type of clean-up issues.

In “The Most Secret Place On Earth”, key players of the Secret War –former CIA agents, American pilots, Laotian fighters and American journalists –take us on a journey into the physical heart of the conflict: Top secret Long Cheng.

Long Cheng was an almost uninhabited valley deep in the jungles of central Laos, where the CIA built its headquarters in 1962. Four years later, 40.000 People lived in Long Cheng and it was from this base that the Secret War was largely planned and executed. Yet, Long Cheng was never marked on any official map. In the early days, Long Cheng was run by Tony Poe, who is claimed by his colleagues to have served as a template for Col Kurtz in Coppola’s Apocalypse Now! At the height of the war, a few hundred CIA officers and the civilian airline Air America –covertly owned by the CIA –coordinated and supplied up to 50.000 indigenous troops in the field, and the Air Force bombed Laos, while hiding these actions from the public. As the war dragged on, Long Cheng became the busiest airbase in the world and a major center for the global opium and heroin trade. Candid interviews with past and present players combined with previously unseen footage from the war as well as from the current struggle in Laos tell astory that hasn’t been documented in history books. As we journey into Long Cheng for the first time –the site has been off limits to the outside world since the end of the war in 1975 –the film reconstructs the gripping story of the operation and illustrates its relevance to current military conflicts.