USA Soccer Tour 2011

Special Thanks goes to the P.E staff at Salesian College (my school) for putting so much time and effort into this trip and making it possible!

Thanks also goes to Me vs Hero for letting me use their song.

Unfortunately due to my dad, there isn't much footage of the games, if i get anymore i'll upload it.

On the 7th July 2011, my secondary school (high school) flew out from London Heathrow airport to San Francisco International Airport on what was sure to be the trip of a lifetime. The P.E teachers at my school spend over 2 years planning for this trip and after months of planning and ordering new kit for every student going on the tour, the time had finally arrived.

We took off from London at 13:00 on the 7th July and arrived in San Francisco 15:50.

For 6 days, we stayed at a hotel in San Francisco called the Hotel Carlton. The hotel was a 5-10 minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge, which we ran across on our second day, and Golden Gate Bridge park, our training pitches for our 2 training sessions. (Unfortunately i did not have my camera to film the training pitches or any training sessions.)

During the 6 days we were out there we took part in various activities such as getting a tour of Alcatraz, visiting Pier 39, watching the San Francisco Giants play against the New York Mets, Rocket Boat ride, dinner at the Hard Rock Café etc. We played 2 games in San Francisco, one against a team ironically called Juventus, who we drew 1-1 with, and another against a team called Walnut Creek, who we beat 2-0.

After the 6 days in SF, we moved further South of California and stayed at Pismo Beach in a Best Western on Route 1, for 2 days, which gave every room in the hotel a sea view balcony. At Pismo we played another team called the Arroyo Grande who we beat 3-0.

After 2 days in Pismo, we carried on south to our final 7 day stop in LA where we stayed at the Sportsmens Lodge Hotel. In LA, like San Francisco, we took part in many activities such as going to Raging Waters Water Park, shopping at Westfields, tour of the Home Depot Center, White Water Rafting, tour of Hollywood and a day at Six flags Magic Mountain theme park, etc. In LA we played 2 games against Long Beach FC, who we beat 1-0, and Moorpark, who we unfortunately lost 1-0 to after a contravertial refereeing decision and a shot that agonisingly hit the bar which kept us from equalising and staying unbeaten in the US of A.

All in all the tour was a success and we returned home to the UK on Thursday 21st July 2011 very brown and exhausted from what was the tour of a lifetime.

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[prestonz2good4u]

How long did it take to edit this?

[thatissport]

@prestonz2good4u about 5 days

[ussoccerfan95]

what game did you guys see, it looked like chivas vs houston?

Nice video also!

[thatissport]

@ussoccerfan95 chivas vs new york red bulls, it was a pretty boring game..

thanks :)

[ManCityFan1988]

like the vid - didnt you know the greatest team in the World were in LA too ? beat Galaxy yesterday-! lol but you knew that !

[thatissport]

@ManCityFan1988 yeah i did but they got tickets to a different game by accident so we didn't get to see it!

[ManCityFan1988]

@thatissport oh well im sure City will be back next year !

[cheezface94]

@ussoccerfan95 Chiovas vs NY Red Bulls :)

[BrodieCousins23]

Good work Harry, some fantastic memories!

[manurockdavid]

some great memories :)))))))

[hihat7]

ahaha Dave @ 1:01 Great video baz! very jealous indeed!!

[ussoccerfan95]

@thatissport haha yeah that was a boring game!

[fcdaley]

Nice video man!

[multifootballmania]

that looks like a class trip!