Football Tours

FOOTBALL TOURS with the groups company appeal to those who wish to combine their love of the game with a taste for overseas travel. The group may travel solely to attend several matches during a tournament or just to see teams of note in action. Alternatively the group may wish for a more active participation in the sport and to take part in a series of matches against local amateur sides.The degree to which a football holiday is a passive one, watching several teams, or an active one involving matches against local clubs, is up to you. You and your group choose th style of football holiday you want. 
 
We operate Football tours to the following destinations:-
Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain & Vietnam.

 
A typical day...
After a leisurely breakfast the morning may be taken up with a training session, either run by members of the group, or led by a professional coach, if you have chosen to take one along with you or to hire one locally. In the afternoon there may be another training session, or a 5 a side match or two between members of the group. Or, depending on the day there may be a local match to watch. Dinner will be a good opportunity to talk over the results of the matches played in the afternoon or watched at a local fixture.
 
After lunch a match – either a knock-out or a league competition – can be arranged, before a relaxing end to the afternoon leads into the evening and a pleasant dinner. Two variations on the above may appeal:
 
Your group may decide that an exciting way to end the holiday would be, after a few days spent acclimatising and fine-tuning their game, to take part in a match against one or more local tennis clubs based in the area you are visiting.. The groups company can arrange this. Or you may decide that, whilst Football at one centre for the entire holiday is pleasant enough, travelling Football may add a difference. This would see the group moving on to another locale after a couple of days, perhaps for just for a change of venue or perhaps to take on another local club in a series of touring matches. An unusual variation on this theme is to combine the Football with a leisurely cruise on one of our gulets in Turkey. Each day then consists of time ashore on court, either practising or competing, mixed with time cruising off-shore, relaxing in the sunshine.
 
Bringing non-playing partners along will reduce the per-person cost of the holiday and add another dimension to the holiday, with sightseeing – either for the non-players whilst the Football happens, or for everyone if Football is in the morning and sightseeing is in the afternoon – built into the itinerary.
The exact format of the day is determined by you and your group at the planning stage of the holiday; You and your group choose the style of Football holiday that you want.
 
Sample itineraries ...  
The itineraries below are intended only to give an indication of what might be possible in a particular country, following an itinerary catering for a particular special interest.
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No details of meals or accommodation are included in the itineraries as it would be your decision, at the planning stage, as to what is included. You would decide whether your tour included all meals, just Bed and Breakfast, or Bed and Breakfast plus some lunches or dinners at certain points on the itinerary. Similarly you would decide what standard of accommodation you wanted to use.
 
The itineraries detailed are deliberately short ones. It is intended to give a flavour, an outline, of an itinerary.  If you have more time, then extra time can be built into each stop on the itinerary, and additional places of interest and overnight stops can be added. Lengthening the itinerary, to 10 days or two weeks, for example, and adding further night-stops will enrich your journey; shown below is just a brief skeletal itinerary as a basis for discussion and more detailed planning.
 
Turkey – 8 days :–

1. Fly Bodrum, board gulet.

2. Bodrum: morning training session; afternoon visit castle, then sail 

3. Morning training session; mid-day cruise, with lunch aboard or barbecue on the beach, and swim stop en route.

4.Morning 5 a side competition, then sail, with lunch en route and afternoon swim stops.

5. Morning training session, then afternoon 5 a side competition against local teams. Dinner with local team members.

6. Morning training session, then sail, with lunch stop in a quiet bay en route, to Bodrum.

7. Morning training session, afternoon match against local team. Evening, dinner in local restaurant, or evening cruise with beach barbecue, with local team.

8. Fly London.

Spain – 8 days: –

1. Fly Malaga, transfer to hotel along coast.

2. Morning training session; afternoon excursion.

3. Morning training session, afternoon relax by pool or play golf.

4. Morning training session; afternoon competition against local team. Dinner with local team.

5. Drive to Granada; afternoon city tour.

6. Morning training session, afternoon excursion to Alpujarras mountain region, or Mount Mulhacen.

7. Morning training session; afternoon competition against local team. Dinner with local team members.

8. Fly London.

Brasil – 8 days: –

1. Fly Rio.

2 Arrive Rio; day at rest, visit the beaches.

3. Morning training session; afternoon tour of Rio.

4. Morning training session; afternoon match against local team; dinner with local team.

5. Fly to Salvador; afternoon tour.

6. Morning training session; afternoon match against local  team. Dinner with local team.

7. Relax on the beach, or visit nearby island. Evening fly via Rio to London.

8. Arrive London.
 

Portugal - 4 days: -

1. Fly to Lisbon; transfer to Estoril; warm-up 5-a-side competition.

2. Match against first local team; non-players city tour of Lisbon.

3. Match against second local team; non=players visit to Sintra. Dinner with local teams.

4. Morning 5-a-side knockout against both local teams; lunch and prize-giving; eveing transfer to Lisbon for flight to UK.
 

Mexico - 8 days: -

1. fly Mexico City.

2. Mexico City tour; attend game at Aztec Stadium.

3. Visit Xochimilco Floating Gardens; light training at private sports club.

4. Visit Teotihuacan; training session.

5. Visit of southern Mexico city; training session.

6. Visit UNAM University city; friendship game against a local team. Farewell dinner.

7. Depart for UK.

8. Arrive UK.