"Its been excellent, we actually were caught off guard at how many people were so enthused about this," says International Student Organization (ISO) President LaDaisy Turner.

More than 180 soccer players, both American and international participants, played representing 20 different countries.

Bashar Hamza the Middle East's team captain says the event has brought together many different people and even helped him to make new friends.

"It's really interesting how the whole organization is bringing different nationalities of different people together, like friends that I've never met and even guys from the Middle East that I've never had the chance to meet until this time," says Hamza.

The ISO says bringing the international and university community together was the main goal of the soccer tournament.

"To bring the community together... and that's what were trying to do because its such a big event and big sport in other countries that we wanted to use that," says Turner.

This year's soccer event has not only brought together different nationalities, but it has brought together people that normally would not be playing on the same team.

"There is a big conflict in the Middle East that is religion based and what I am telling my team is that we're all playing representing the Middle East," says Hamza. "It doesn't matter if your Sunni, Shia, Muslim, Christian, lets just play together and represent this whole region."

This was the first year ISO held the event and organizers say they've had such a great response they plan to do it again next year.