News Archives - 2007

The Augsburg College men's soccer team will travel to Buenos Aires, Argentina for an 11-day training and competition trip in early August.

Twenty-seven players, along with five Augsburg staff members and several parents and family members, will travel to Buenos Aires from Aug. 3-14. Team members raised money for the past year to pay for the trip, the first international trip in the Augsburg men's soccer team's history.

"This will be an invaluable experience for our guys, not only because they will get a chance to experience some of the best soccer in the world, but because we have 27 current players in our program that will be training together two weeks before our season begins," said Augsburg head coach Greg Holker.

The soccer players will train at the CEFAR Academy (Centro Entrenamiento Futbol Alto Rendimiento/Center for High Performance Football Training), a private training facility, and play five games against local club competition. In addition, the Augsburg group will tour the city of Buenos Aires, attend a professional soccer match, and tour the training facilities of Boca Juniors, one of the top teams in Argentine professional soccer.

The tour is being organized through Harvard Sports Management Group, Inc., an international sports tourism company.

Read the full story and follow the Auggie men's soccer team's trip to Argentina at: www.augsburg.edu/athletics