The Land of the Champions Football Tour

Join our soccer-obsessed guides into the ultimate tour for soccer enthusiasts!

In this tour we'll dive deep into the soccer madness. We'll start our day at Retiro, discovering the link between the immigration of the 1800s and the arrival of futbol to Argentina. You'll learn how we became so obsessed with football and talk about the relationship of this sport with politics, gender, and rituals accross Argentina. 

Then, we will visit the Bombonera Stadium, if available, the mythical arena were players like Maradona, Riquelme and Palermo played, before heading to Nuñez to check out the stadium of Boca's arch-nemesis: River Plate.

We will finish the day at off-the-beaten path La Paternal, where we'll walk around the area of the Argentinos Jrs Stadium to learn about the origins of the legendary player Maradona, before heading to Maradona's first house, where he lived with his family while he played for Argentinos. We'll talk about this legendary left-footed prodigy exploring his life as a football player, his personal life and its controversied and finally, the massive mourning experiences by his death, and immortalized in the many murals and tributes to him in the area.