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Soccer: Milan, Florence & Rome
Discover the highlights of Italy on a WorldStrides Soccer Tour to Milan, Florence, and Rome. With guided sightseeing and city tours, you’ll immerse yourself in the rich history and culture of this awe-inspiring country. Experience the Italian style of soccer, renowned for its disciplined defending and passionate support, both by watching professional matches and playing against local teams.
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Soccer: Milan, Florence & Rome
Discover the highlights of Italy on a WorldStrides Soccer Tour to Milan, Florence, and Rome. With guided sightseeing and city tours, you’ll immerse yourself in the rich history and culture of this awe-inspiring country. Experience the Italian style of soccer, renowned for its disciplined defending and passionate support, both by watching professional matches and playing against local teams.
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Highlights
Il DuomoPiazza NavonaSpanish Steps
Learning Areas
Health and Physical Education
Destinations
MilanFlorenceRome
Your Adventure
- Arrive in Milan 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.
- Milan guided sightseeing tour
- 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.
- San Siro Stadium guided visit Pay homage to 'the beautiful game' in Milan with a guided tour of San Siro Stadium, where both AC Milan and FC Internazionale Milano (aka Inter Milan) play. Explore the stadium's public areas and gaze down at the pitch from the tiered seating stands. Visit the press room where post-match interviews and photo sessions take place, and then take a walk through the 'tunnel of champions' to the pitch. Often you can also visit the changing rooms. Your tour will finish in the stadium museum, a place full of football paraphernalia with trophies, cups, shirts and more.
- Training session Participate in a training session led by your own coaching staff at a local field in the area.
- Florence guided walking tour Immerse yourself in the charms of old-world Firenze. The birthplace and focal point of the Italian Renaissance, Florence still has the masterpieces to prove it. Brunelleschi’s monumental cuploa (dome) atop the city's renowned Duomo dominates the skyline. Your local licensed guide will take you to Giotto's Bell Tower and the aptly named Gates of Paradise, the bronze east doors of the Baptistery that spurred the burgeoning Renaissance. Don’t overlook the tombs of Michelangelo, Galileo, and Machiavelli at the Chiesa di Santa Croce, or Florence’s amazing leather goods. You can check them out when you visit one of the area’s famed workshops!
- 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.
- Football Museum & Hall of Fame visit Visit the Museo del Calcio is part of the Centro Tecnico Federale di Coverciano national football training grounds and showcases the past and present of the Italian National Football Team. The museum is also home to mementos and shirts of great champions who have contributed to making soccer popular all around the world: from Di Stefano to Pelé and Maradona.
- 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.
- Rome guided sightseeing tour Enjoy a walking tour of Rome visiting the Colosseum, Forum Romanum, and Piazza Venezia.
- Rome city walk You'll also enjoy the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, and Piazza Novona.
- 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.
- Vatican City guided tour Tour St. Peter’s Basilica with a licensed local guide and whisper headset so you don't miss a word. Outside the church, four rows of columns radiate out like welcoming arms; inside, the church seems enormous enough to embrace the entire world. The dome, partially designed by Michelangelo, rises 452 feet above the ground. Michelangelo’s mark is everywhere here, from the costumes worn by the Swiss Guards to his exquisite “Pietà” sculpture (the only sculpture he ever signed) to the amazing frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Because he considered himself a sculptor and not a painter, Michelangelo hated working on these paintings, now considered masterpieces.
- 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.
- Depart Italy Farewell Italy, it's time to board your flight back home to Australia
