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| July 12, 2009 - ELKO, NV | |||||
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The Elko Soccer Club, in partnership with Força! Soccer Tours, completed their June/July 2009 tour that brought their girls u12, u14, and u16 teams to the Basque region on both sides of the Spanish-French border. The Elko Soccer Club is located in the northeast Nevada town of Elko which has strong ties through their immigrant population to the Basque culture in the northeast of Spain. This is the club's 2nd soccer tour to Spain with Força! Soccer Tours. |
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Basque Region The Elko SC group began their tour with 2 days in Pamplona in the Navarra region of Spain. While in Pamplona the group took in many of the key historical and cultural sights. They visited the Plaza del Toros, and walked the route of the city's world-famous running of the bulls. The group made a short tour of the nearby city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, where the Elko teams also played matches with the teams of a quality girls club, followed by dinner and social time with the locals.
Next the Elko group
transfer over the Pyrenees mountains to the French side of Basque
country for a 2-day stay in the small historic city of Pau.
The group enjoyed especially the outdoor dining in the quaint
streets in the area of the famous Château, birthplace of Henry IV.
Here the Elko teams played matches, this time with the
well-developed regional selections for the Pyrénées-Atlantiques,
again followed by a dinner social. |
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Donosti Cup The Elko group transferred to San Sebastián, the base for the remaining 7 days of their tour. The Elko teams had time for just 1 training session before launching into the busy match schedules for the 3 teams in the Donosti Cup tournament. The teams enjoyed the well-organized tournament with its good competition, international opponents, and terrific venues, including the start-of-the-art complex of professional club Real Sociedad. Free-time between matches was relished with frequent short walks to the perfect beaches of San Sebastián. The group also enjoyed a half-day outing back over the border into the famous seaside city of Biarritz, France. Some in the group made excursions to Bilbao, host to the famous Guggenheim museum, and back to Pamplona to experience first-hand the running of the bulls. All enjoyed the beautiful architecture, friendly people, and the unparalleled eating experience, for which the famous Basque city of San Sebastián is well known. |
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