Attending the Football Matches
Included in the the Football
enthusiasts tour of South America, is entry to two top division National League
(or similar) club matches, one in each of Brazil and Argentina. We book
preferential seating for you in these games and you are accompanied to the
match by a local guide who will ensure your safety and
comfort, and explain about the football clubs participating, their famous players
and tell you many interesting annecdotes.
Click here to see the matches featured on each Football Adventures tour date.
Argentina
The football match you will
attend in Buenos Aires will typically be a national league game. In
Argentina there are two national football league competitions each year called
Clausura and Apertura. The Clausura runs in the first half of the year and the
Apertura during the second half. We will take you to, what we expect to be, the
most interesting game of the round. The most famous soccer clubs in Argentina
are Boca Juniors, River Plate, and to a lesser extent Racing Club, Independiente, San Lorenzo, and Velez Sarsfield. We usually go for either a Boca Juniors or River Plate home game.
The River Plate football stadium, Estadio Monumental, is the largest
football stadium in Argentina and also used for Argentine national team matches, when
they play at home. The Boca Juniors stadium is called 'La Bombonera'
(the chocolate box), because of its unique shape, colourful appearance, and steep
sided stands. The most intense rivalry is between these two clubs - Boca Juniors and
River Plate. A Boca v River clash is known as a superclásico and has grown to
legendary proportions.
Brazil
In Brazil we will
typically take you to a national league game in Rio, featuring one or more of the most
famous Rio football teams - Vasco da Gama, Flamengo, Fluminense, and Botafogo. The
clasic local derby in Rio is a game between Flamengo and Fluminense -
called a 'Flu-Fla'. Because of the huge interest generated in this clash it is usually
played in the biggest football stadium possible, being the 110,000 capacity
Maracana, that was built for the 1958 Football World Cup.
Special Games
Occasionally we are able to
take you to a fixture in an alternative top level competition, such as a World
Cup Qualifier, Copa Libertadores (the South American
equivalent of the Champions League), Copa America, Copa Sudamericana, or a
Recopa Sudamericana game. Generally theses football games are scheduled at
shorter notice and it is more difficult for us to program and sell a tour in
advance in these circumstances. However, we will offer tours involving such matches and
these may involve a slight change in itinerary and/or price.
