Newton Pride FC have won the inaugural The Soccer Tournament and scooped $1 million in prize money after beating SLC FC 2-0 in the final.
The five-day tournament saw 32 teams battle it out for the winner-takes-all prize pool, with finalists playing seven games over the course of the event. The tournament followed the same format as the World Cup with two teams in each of the eight groups progressing to the knockout stages.
But TST operates as a seven-a-side tournament with the matches only 40 minutes in length, meaning the eventual champions earned $1m for just 280 minutes of football. The other 31 teams left empty handed, with some big European teams making the long trip to North Carolina for nothing.
