Thursday

Another busy day.  We started at 7:00,  first was tactical theory and that ran over until we were to go watch the 1st team practice.  It was awesome,  They walked right past us and each was totally polite and all greeted us.  Some of these buys are making $30 million a year and all were pleasant.  They trained 2 times today and the one we watched was an hour.  They worked hard and also laughed and teased each other during practice.  It was really fun to watch.  Sven Goran Erikson, the mexican national team (ex-england national team) coach sat next to us during the session.  Most all the ex-players all speak 3 to 5 languages.  After that excitement we went back to watch the 7 yr train at the soccer school.  We watched and participated for an hour or so and the headed back to the academy to watch and learn more.  We finally returned about 10:30 and went to dinner and saw the 8 year old barca team from dubai, UAE (team is full of all nationalities, kind of a all star team) that is staying in our hotel.  All these young men are totally polite and travel around the world playing in tournaments representing Barca.  The european football world is amazing.  It is not a sport, it is their life.

p.s. We were not allowed to have camera's at the 1st team practice, but I accidentally snapped a couple with camera by my hip so you could see

Ciao