Soccer Training For International Play

Play On The Team Whose Vision Is To Play In The Intercontinental Cup

Are you good, really good? Do you want to play professionally but don't have the contacts you need? Have you finished college or reached your playing potential where you are? Would you like a chance to move to MLS but there is no pathway to follow? MLS is recruiting in Honduras all the time. Come to Honduras and play and get the support you need to move to MLS or even to Europe.

Playing professional is very different from college. MLS players are being recruited worldwide. That means that you will be challenged by players like Beckham and Zidane. Coming from college in the USA will just not prepare you for the rough, tough world of world class professional soccer MLS is becoming. You need seasoning in a different soccer tradition.

Come to Honduras and gain the experience you need in Latin American Run and Gun soccer. It's a no mercy, take no prisoners approach to playing soccer that can prepare you for the world of international soccer. It's tough, it's rough and it will either make you or break you. It all depends on what is in you.

Come to Honduras and gain the experience you need in Latin American Run and Gun soccer. It's a no mercy, take no prisoners approach to playing soccer that can prepare you for the world of international soccer. It's tough, it's rough and it will either make you or break you. It all depends on what is in you.

You will play against Honduran players with legs of iron. Many of them have never been trained. What they learned they learned in the villages and in the streets. They are hungry for the ball and for the chance to show the world what they can do. Soccer is the only way they have to make it. The play all out and they play to win. You will master the same style of play or you just won't make the cut to professional play.

Honduran Players Develop In The Same Hard School As Pele

There were no soccer moms, no SUVs, no travel teams. No fruit and juice at halftime. No coaching supporting them. No parents giving them high fives. Most of the time their parents do not bother to come and see them play. No one taught them anything. They watched their fellows take the ball and decided they could do that too. They played with bottles, with plastic bags, whatever. Cleats? Only a dream. Many play barefoot, in rubber boots and torn sneakers. But they play. They learn. And they play well. No one helps them. It's sink or swim, fish or cut bait.

Only A Few Make It To Official Teams Like Atletico Lenca

Only a few were good enough to make it to be on a team. The Liga Mayor Esperanzana? No, they play in their communities, on field of pure mud (See Some Young Players On A Mud Field). When you grown up playing on this type of field, you learn to play in a hard school. The players that rise here are the result of natural selection. That's how Pele developed. No help, no coaching, no support. They simply surfaced from the farmlands of these mountains, playing soccer after walking up and down hills all day in their fields. Some walk 3 hours to get to these muddy fields, play two full 90 minute games, they walk another 3 hours up and down the mountain to go home. In the dark. Without a flashlight. They play all out. It's no holds barred. Are you up to it? Can you play alongside these tough mountain boys? If you can play here and win you can play soccer anywhere in the world.

YOU'LL NEVER GET ANOTHER CHANCE LIKE THIS ONE ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD

What You Get
Membership On A Team Of the Liga Mayor Esperanzana- the official league being developed in Honduras for players over 16 years old

Guaranteed to play every game when fit

Sport related medical care at low cost

Two uniforms

Official carnet from FENAFUTH

Official membership in Liga de las Comunidades

Intibucana entitling you to play against burocratic teams throughout Honduras

Training in Honduran Run and Gun Soccer

A marketing program for your soccer career

Opportunity to serve as a trainee volunteer coach

Support in Moving to Professional team in Honduras
Room and board

At end of year - try out for Atletico Esperanzano the second division professional team in Honduras
Lifetime marketing assistance for possible movement to MLS or Europe depending on your talent and how you develop over this year

A marketing video you can use

Your own webpage where photos of your play and stats will be kept weekly

Your cost for the above package is US10,500, half down in advance and the second half when you receive your official carnet from LCI.

Requirements

Must have US or Canadian passport

Must be between 16 and 35 years old

Must present health and physical fitness certificate

You will receive a 3 months visa free when entering - every three months you must travel to Costa Rica or the US/Canada to renew the visa

What you need to bring

sleeping bag
four pairs of cleats
four pairs of tennis shoes
used balls, cleats and uniforms for donation to mountain children

Spending money - $150 per month or more

When to Begin Your Participation

You may begin at any time of the year. The Liga de las Comunidades Intibucana plays all year round so you are guaranteed to play throughout the year.
Atletico Lenca is your ticket To The World Wide Soccer Community.

You Can Play With Atletico Lenca. Want To Play With Us For One To Eight Weeks And See If You Are Good Enough? Think You Are Good Enough To Share Our Dream Of The Intercontinental Cup? See Photos Of How Atletico Lenca Joined With An African Team In The 2004 Torneo Internacional Intibucana in Honduras.

Atletico Lenca Will Train Players in Lenca Mountain Endurance Running

The Sport Of Lenca Mountain Endurance

Are you as strong as the Ancient Lencas who ran up and down hills and then fought off the guns of the Spanish with their bows and arrows and spears?
The Spanish were on horseback and the Lencas on foot. Yet they won against the Spanish. They had a form of endurance that is legendary.

We are developing the sport of Lenca Mountain Endurance here based on the strength and stamina of these legendary warrior.

Participants will wear specially designed Mountain Endurance Training clothing. Lenca Mountain

Endurance will involve the following:

a warm up based on our Mountain Conditioning Protocol

mountain obstacle course

running on flats 400 yards
sprint uphill 100 yards
jumping streams

running up and down hills 10 minutes

low angle 4

middle angle 3

high angle 2

pulling small log 3

pulling large log 2

spear throwing at end of run 5

warm down

Your training will enable you to participate in the monthly Lenca Mountain Endurance Event and qualify for the international.

Atletico Lenca Has Just Begun To Grow

Atletico Lenca is a soccer team located in La Esperanza, Honduras. It is a relatively new team in Honduras and is made up mostly of Lenca Indians and mestizos. The Lencas are legendary for their endurance. Campesinos may walk for two to three hours up and down hill, play in one or more game of 90 minutes and then walk back home.

Atletico Lenca is from a country of only 6 million people and there are probably about 100,000 people in the area from which Atletico Lenca is drawn.
Our Goals Are No Less Than To Win The Intercontinental Cup!

How Will You Be Accepted Into This Soccer Culture?
We guarantee you can join Atletico Lenca and at least on burocratic team You can also play in the Plaza Lempira and Coliseo Lenca indoor soccer teams. To break into these soccer worlds without invitation would be be impossible for you as a North American. But because Dr. Carol Cross is so connected in soccer in Intibuca and is half owner of athletic Lenca and work extensively with the Burocratic leagues, i can guarantee you opportunities to play and practice very day.

In addition, you will spend three mornings per week my Play With Pain training session. As a personal student of Dr. Cross, you will be able to be a full participant in the soccer community in Intibuca.