BSA Sports Announces Unique Soccer Tour to Brazil

Feb. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- BSA Sports (http://bsa-sports.com/) officially announces a new Brazilian Soccer Tour and partnership with Brazilian professional club Associação Atlética Ponte Preta, at the NSCAA National Convention in Baltimore on January, 15th 2011.

BSA Sports secures an important partnership with Ponte Preta offering American athletes the unique opportunity to experience the life of a professional soccer player. Associação Atlética Ponte Preta has a rich history in Brazilian soccer as the first professional soccer club of Brazil formed in 1900. Ponte Preta is well known for molding and nurturing young players and is considered a gold mine of young talent by recruiters from around the world. Ponte Preta has cultivated the likes of Luís Fabiano (currently playing for Sevilla Fútbol Club in Spain), Mineiro and three time World Cup (1978, 1982 & 1986) keeper Carlos Roberto Gallo, to mention a few. This new partnership with BSA Sports, now opens the doors to all American soccer players.

This unique soccer tour for American players is called, "Brazilian Soccer Experience," and it focuses on the true experience of a professional athlete. Most normal team soccer tours involve an American club team going to Brazil and playing with or against Brazilian squads. All the while visiting the country's main tourist destinations like "Christ on the mountain."

The "Brazilian Soccer Experience" is different and is very soccer orientated. It gives American soccer players the once in a lifetime opportunity to practice alongside Ponte Preta's professional squad.

American soccer players will be able to actually experience the day-to-day life of a professional living in Brazil. They will live with the team, eat with the team and train with the team. This is a very focused program giving American athletes a unique chance to train and be trained by Brazilian coaches. You will gain valuable experiences; contacts and most of all become a better player!
To see more about our tours visit: http://bsa-sports.com/us/our-services/soccer-tours-to-bra...

"The experiences that I gained through BSA Sports were something that I'm going to carry with me for the rest of my life.

The players and coaching staff that I was training with everyday were very warm and accepting, something that I didn't expect but was more relieved to discover. I would encourage anyone who is serious about playing soccer to test themselves in this environment; I'm definitely a better player because of it.” - Marek Urbanski, December 2010.

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BSA Sports offers several soccer tours for team, individual athletes or coaches wanting to train in Brazil. BSA Sports Is the official partner of the first and oldest professional club in Brazil, Associação Atlética Ponte Preta.

BSA Sports (www.bsa-sports.com) was officially formed in 2010, and is a subsidiary of Body & Soul Adventures (www.bodysouladventures.com) which has been doing soccer and physical activity tours for over ten years. Body & Soul Adventures is a top resort located in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. BSA Sports was created by Michael Mitchell; a collegiate and semipro soccer player from Chico State University. Mitchell has lived in Brazil for more than 15 years, and has transformed Body & Soul Adventures resort into one of Brazil's top location for physical activity, and winning "World Travel Award" in 2004.