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Barcelona and Madrid Soccer Tour

The most successful side of the past decade, the Spanish National Team (La Roja), has won two European Championships and a World Cup. Spain also boasts the most dominant club teams in Europe headed by FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. The two sides form the most famous rivalry in the world. The derby is referred to as "El Clasico" and is underlined with decades of political and cultural tensions. The Spanish way of soccer is renowned for its "total football" approach.
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Spain

9 Days
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
  • Plaza de la Villa
  • Sagrada Familia
  • Historic Barri Gòtic Town Square
  • Gran Via

Your adventure, day by day

Day 1 : Start tour
Day 2 : Hola Barcelona
Meet your tour director and check into hotel

Welcome Meeting and Orientation

Training session

Participate in a training session led by your own coaching staff at a local field in the area.

Dinner

Day 3 : Barcelona
Barcelona guided sightseeing tour

Discover the city known for white sandy beaches, bustling boulevards lined with tapas bars, twisting modern architecture, dramatic cathedrals with spindly steeples and, of course, a passion for fútbol.

Olympic and Sport Museum visit

With a historic, ethical, playful and education vision, the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum is home to pioneering equipment in Europe. It shows a global perspective on all disciplines and methods of sport in an interactive space that boasts advanced technology in all areas, transforming the museum into a spectacle for the senses. New technologies play a very important role through interactive exhibits and multimedia installations, showcasing experiences and provoking reflection.

Friendly soccer match

Play an international friendly match against a local club or academy team. The team will meet and compete against athletes of similar ages and skill levels, and have the opportunity to make friends for life.

Dinner

Day 4 : Barcelona
Girona excursion

Girona is a beautiful medieval city that stands out from the local landscape. Populated at one point by Romans, Arabs, and Jews, the city has a unique archeological heritage that is well worth a visit. Enjoy a Walking Tour of Girona. We begin along the Riu Onyar, admiring Girona's bestknown view, before exploring the Rambla de la Libertat and El Call, the medieval Jewish Quarter, where the first Hanukkah celebration since the Jewish expulsion of 1482 was celebrated in 1998.

Professional coaching clinic

Participate in a special coaching clinic with a guest coach, player or instructor. The clinic will be designed exclusively for the team and to enhance skills in areas identified by the coaching staff.

Dinner

Day 5 : Barcelona
Tour Camp Nou Stadium, Home of FC Barcelona

Visit the home of one of the biggest soccer clubs in the world, with a capacity for 98,000 spectators. This club has its own museum and mega store!

Free time in Barcelona

Friendly soccer match

This evening, play another international friendly game vs. a local Spanish team.

Dinner

Day 6 : Barcelona -- Madrid
Travel to Madrid

Training session

Participate in a training session led by your own coaching staff at a local field in the area.

Dinner

Day 7 : Madrid
Madrid city walk

Life in Madrid is centered around talking, toasting and tapas-eating. In a walk through this crowded and social city, your Tour Director will help you get to know the lay of the land. Then stroll over to the Puerta del Sol, the bustling city center. Next, you'll relax at the Plaza Mayor, a grand square where every sort of human drama has taken place—trials of faith, public burnings of heretics, royal marriages, the canonization of saints, and countless balls and bullfights. End at the Plaza de España for a stop at an outdoor café.

Dinner

Attend professional soccer match

Attend a professional soccer match. Seeing international players compete in person would itself be unforgettable, but add the passionate crowds singing, cheering and chanting and you will enter an atmosphere that can only be understood through personal experience. Please note that this activity is subject to availability as it is based on the league’s fixture list at the dates the group is traveling.

Day 8 : Madrid
Real Madrid Stadium guided visit

Tour of the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, home of the Real Madrid football club. The third most visited museum in Madrid. The museum compiles all of the history surrounding the club and has interactive screens to learn everything about the team. Our tour will include a walk on the field and an opportunity to enter the dressing room of the team to feel the excitement the players feel before going out on the pitch. (The tour may be modified in the event of a match day.)

LEGENDS Madrid visit

Located near the Puerta del Sol, LEGENDS Madrid invites you to a spectacular chronological journey through the history of football. Enjoy a colossal permanent exhibition, which includes transcendental experiences and events around the beautiful sport. Feel the emotions experienced by the protagonists in the main competitions through objects and original pieces of incalculable value. Admire the jerseys of the greatest: Pelé, Cruyff, Maradona, Messi, Zidane, Iniesta, Paolo Rossi … or discover what the boots and balls of the first World Champions were like. All that and much more awaits you at LEGENDS Madrid.

Friendly soccer match

This evening, play another international friendly game vs. a local Spanish team.

Dinner

Day 9 : End tour

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