The Tours

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The tours are fully customizable for any size group from youth teams to college and professional teams that want to improve their individual skills and team play using the proven Brazilian soccer methods. Players will benefit from the experience of living, training, and playing like a professional soccer player. The tours extend past the realm of soccer to be a complete experience that the players will remember for the rest of their lives. The cultural experiences that we plan for the groups take them to some of the most famous and rewarding sites in Brazil and allow our participants to have a balanced experience that will have as much of a positive affect on them as a person as it does on them as a player.
In order to help you better understand the tours we have prepared both a sample itinerary for a team traveling to Brazil during the summer and a sample schedule for a single day. These are examples based on past trips, all of our itineraries and schedules are fully customizable to fit the needs of any individual or group.

Sample Itinerary:
Monday July, 7th- Fly from NYC to Belo Horizonte
Monday July 7th- July 14th – Training in Belo Horizonte at Cruzeiro
Wednesday July 9th- Professional Match Cruzeiro vs. Vasco in Bhte
Friday July 11th- Afternoon trip to local art galleries and architectural sites
Monday July 14th- Fly from Belo Horizonte to Salvador, Bahia
July 14th-July 18th Training in Salvador at Vitoria EC
Thursday July 17th- Goodbye dinner on the beach in Salvador
July 18th Fly from Bahia to Belo Horizonte then Belo Horizonte to NYC

Sample Schedule from a day in Belo Horizonte:
8am- Wake up and Breakfast at the Cruzeiro facility
10am- Training with the Cruzeiro u-16 development team
12pm- Lunch at the Cruzeiro Facility
2pm- Training with the Cruzeiro u-16 development Team
6:30 pm- Dinner in downtown Belo Horizonte
8pm- Live music show in the center of Belo Horizonte
10pm- Lights out

Sample Trip Abstract:
The trip will depart NYC on Monday, July 7th and the team will fly to Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais and the birth place of Coach Wilson Egidio. There the players will experience the lifestyle of a developing professional soccer player while living, eating, and training at the youth training facility of Cruzeiro, which is one of the top professional clubs in Brazil. There the player will receive 4 meals a day, eating with their Brazilian counterparts. They will have two training sessions one in the morning and one in the afternoon that will consist of technical, tactical and fitness training as well as games and scrimmages. The evenings will consist of visiting the city and surrounding areas as well as going to professional soccer matches and other cultural events. They will be able to visit the historic town of Ouro Preto, which is a former mining town that is world famous for its Baroque architecture.

After seven days in Belo Horizonte the team will depart for the beach town of Salvador, the capital of the beautiful state of Bahia. Here the players will stay at a beautiful hotel that is within 100mts of the beach and will be training with the professional club Vitoria EC. Their day will begin with breakfast at the hotel and then it is off to the beach for beach soccer, futsal, training, and relaxing on some of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil. The hotel will serve lunch and then the players will go to the Victoria training facility for a training session with the club in the afternoon. The evenings will be filled with cultural excursions through the city center, which has a tremendous amount to offer in terms of art, food, and beautiful architecture. After three days the team will depart Salvador and head back to New York to put into action all that they have learned from being around the world class soccer and culture of Brazil.