- Depart Australia Board your flight and begin your journey to Barcelona, Spain!
Soccer: Barcelona & Madrid
Travel to Spain and experience the best of both worlds: sunny beaches and historic charm. Explore Barcelona and Madrid’s bustling boulevards lined with tapas bars, modern architecture, and dramatic cathedrals – and of course, visit world-class football stadiums. Spain offers a wealth of cultural experiences and the warm hospitality of the Spanish will make your team feel right at home!
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Soccer: Barcelona & Madrid
Travel to Spain and experience the best of both worlds: sunny beaches and historic charm. Explore Barcelona and Madrid’s bustling boulevards lined with tapas bars, modern architecture, and dramatic cathedrals – and of course, visit world-class football stadiums. Spain offers a wealth of cultural experiences and the warm hospitality of the Spanish will make your team feel right at home!
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Highlights
Plaza de la VillaSagrada FamiliaHistoric Barri Gòtic Town SquareGran Via
Learning Areas
Health and Physical Education
Destinations
BarcelonaMadrid
Your Adventure
- Arrive in Barcelona Meet your Tour Director and check in to your 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. On this walking tour of Girona, admire its bestknown view along Riu Onyar, 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.
- Camp Nou Stadium guided tour, 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.
- Travel to Madrid
- Training session Participate in a training session led by your own coaching staff at a local field in the area.
- Madrid city walk Life in Madrid is centred 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. Stroll over to the Puerta del Sol, the bustling city center, 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 canonisation of saints, and countless balls and bullfights. Your walk will end at the Plaza de España for a stop at an outdoor café.
- 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 travelling.
- 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. Your 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.)
- LEGEND 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.
- Friendly soccer match This evening, play another international friendly game vs. a local Spanish team.
- Depart Spain It's time to board your flight back home to Australia.
