Soccer Clinic in Buenos Aires, Argentina (+ Optional Spanish Lessons)

  Argentina

• Buenos Aires: 
Buenos Aires

Dates: Every month

Description: The clinic offered by Mente Argentina includes the 4 parts we consider essential for a complete football clinic.

Professional Training:
Mente Argentina offers you a personalized training program by providing permanent contact with sports experts, coaches, physical trainers, nutritionists and physical therapists. The training will cover techniques and strategies, and has been designed to help you improve both your physical and technical skills. The program will cover (as regards individual and collective techniques) the following variants focusing on those areas that you wish to improve.

Individual Techniques:
- Leading and kicking
- Passing and catching from different positions.
- Leading and kicking at the goal
- Headers with both parietals.
- Tackles, removals, feints (different fixed moves will be practiced)
- Specific exercises according to the position of the player.
- Throw ins, corner kicks, free kicks, penalty kicks.

Collective Techniques:
- Exercises in reduced spaces (8x4m - 5x2m - 4x2m)
- Air moves both in defense and attack
- Attack to last line defenders
- Balance between defense and attack lines
- Several moves in reduced spaces.
- Informal football

Football Tour:

Mente Argentina will make you enjoy the best games from local and international championships which will be held during your stay. Such tours will include transfers by bus and privileged seats at the stadium. All this will allow you to enjoy the Argentine football fully. A guide of Mente Argentina will be always with you to assist you at anytime. Once the game is over we will drop you off at your hotel or apartment.

Tours around different Stadiums in Buenos Aires:

You will visit the main Argentine Stadiums and you will have access to the stands (stalls, preference seats), the pitch, the press room and the changing rooms! The program also includes a visit to the Museum of Boca Juniors.

River Plate Stadium:
A guide specialized in Argentine football will go with you to visit the stadium that was the venue for the 1978 World Cup. Currently, it is the local stadium of the Argentine National Team and the stadium where River Plate plays home games. River Plate, having achieved 32 local championships and gained international prestige after winning the Libertadores Cup of America twice, the Intercontinental Cup once and the Interamerican Cup once, is currently the top champion of the Argentine Football League.

Boca Juniors Stadium:
You will also have the chance to visit the legendary stadium known as La Bombonera, home of Boca Juniors team and which has Diego Maradona as its main symbol. Boca Juniors has become champion of the local league in 22 opportunities and internationally speaking, it has won the Libertadores Cup of America 5 times, the Intercontinental Cup 3 times, the South American Cup twice and the South American Recup 3 times. Boca Juniors is currently the team which has obtained more international cups in the country.

City Tour:
Mente Argentina offers as part of the program several activities which will allow you to take the most of your stay in Buenos Aires.

Highlights: Do you want to learn or improve your Spanish? (optional)

Mente Argentina offers you the possibility to combine your program with Spanish lessons. In this way, you will be able to learn or improve your Spanish while enjoying a unique experience in Buenos Aires.

Lessons take 4 hours and are delivered from Monday to Friday at the MA Spanish School in reduced groups of up to 8 students. These group classes will be combined with individual lessons so that you can reinforce your weaknesses and we can answer your inquiries in a one on one meeting.

Spanish School's teachers are highly qualified and have a vast experience in teaching Spanish as a second language. Therefore, the classes will be interactive and above all enjoyable!

The classes can be attended both in the morning and the afternoon, so they will not overlap with the activities of your program.

Cost in US$: Please inquire for more information

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Argentina Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 6/12

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment

Mente Argentina's Mission Statement: Mente Argentina is a company whose main objective is to offer opportunities to visit Argentina in a unique and different way. We believe that Argentina is a wonderful country. Therefore, we try to meet the needs of those who decide to visit the country by giving them the chance to be protagonists of an amazing experience and by offering programs through which they can acquire new knowledge on a particular subject and at the same time have fun. Come to visit Argentina, do what you enjoy doing most and go through this unforgettable experience together with Mente Argentina.

Year Founded: 2002