A day at the garden

We've been very lucky staying at Talabart's hostel this year. A part from the magnificent food and rooms that we could enjoy every single day, we had a great garden with a swimming pool, basketball net, volleyball net and table tennis tables.
Probably the most wanted and used by the students was the table tennis tables. Always playing Up to 7 points games, a huge number of kids used to wait for his time to play. Even this writer can't remember any lost game, I have to admit that the level of the students was excellent and expects a lot improve for next year making the Table Tennis Tournament 2010 one of the major contests of next year campus. Keep on practising kids, keep on playing...

Olympic Games

The firts weekend we had a very nice time, as we went on a excursion to the mountain house, we went rafting and we had our Olympic Games. There were several games the students had to play as dodgeball, bag races, scoring hability and the row. As you can see in the picture, the kids made a big effort to win every single game the get the points for the final classification. The blue team, leaded by Víctor was the winner of the row game. We have to say that this Olympic day left very nice pictures to remember. Can't wait for next summer and our new games!

Junior Golden Boot 2009

Ramon Isern has been our top scorer 2009. Leading since the league started the top scorers classification he has been the most regular scorer, scoring at least 1 goal in almost all the games. Exceptional was his match against the Canarinha team, in which he scored the 4 goals of his team. Next year he will be senior student, therefore he is going to have to work the double if he wants to have the same success as this year. Congratulations Ramon!

Fin del Campus 2009

Hoy ha terminado la segunda edición del Campus FCStage. Han sido dos semanas fantásticas de mucho fútbol, mucho inglés y muchas risas. Desde el blog queremos agradecer a todos los alumnos por su actitud y comportamiento ejemplar que nos han valido las felicitaciones del alcalde de Les Emilio Medán. Mañana empezamos a pensar ya en el campus del próximo año dónde os esperamos a todos con muchas más sorpresas y novedades.

Goalkeeper Trainings

By Guille Termis
I'm Guille and I'm the goalkeeper of FC Stage Junior.
My training is difficult but I'm very happy with my coach, Rivera. My exercise are to block balls and aren't very difficult. I played with Javier Torras before but he has got an injury and he doesn't play so he went to his home. Now I have got another boy who I train with, his name is Alex Mercadé.
After a break, we play tournament and is very interesting because the teams are very good.

Plannig Fin de Semana Junior

Hola a todos,
El campus ya se acaba y aquellos padres y madres que subirán a recoger a sus hijos, estarán ansiosos por saber que les tenemos preparado. El sábado por la tarde se harán las presentaciones de inglés por grupos de nivel. Cada alumno ha realizado su equipo ideal de fútbol y nos expondrán cuales son las características de sus jugadores favoritos. Por la noche nos reuniremos todos los alumnos en el jardín para pasar juntos la última noche. Por la mañana del domingo nos encontraremos todos en el campo de futbol de Les. Allí y por espacio de 1 hora y media los alumnos realizarán una exhibición de fútbol en un circuito especialmente preparado para la ocasión. Acto seguido, después de pasar por la ducha, se realizará en el jardín del hotel la entrega de premios a los alumnos. Sobre las 14:00h los alumnos y monitores de FCStage comerán juntos por última vez antes de subir al autocar que nos llevará de vuelta a Barcelona. La hora prevista de llegada a Barcelona es a las 20:00h.

Table Tennis Tournament

By Javi Domingo and Rafa Claveria
Last night we played a table tennis torunament. It was in pairs and the match were to 15 points, but the final was to 21 points. We were 16 players and 8 pairs for the tournament. The judge were Jaime, Pollo, Baró and Rivera that they do it very well. Some matches were interesting but some others were very boring. We won the tennis table tournament (Javi Domingo and Rafa Claveria) against Guille Termis and Jordi Balcelll, the match was easy for us. I hope next year will win the tournament other time. The important is to participate, no fights and no discutions.

Football training

By Xavi Mañé
As you know, this weeks we have been playing football every day except on the weekends when we practice other activities. We have been playing football in Les' pitch. This football pitch is better than Vielha's one. The grass is very good for doing tackle! In the morning on this football pitch we do training and in the afternoon a championship.
At the football's training we are divided into 4 groups by ages. All this groups practice a lot of exercises in where we learn to control the ball, pass the ball properly, to do shoots better, heading the ball...
In the championship we are divided into five teams of diferent ages and levels in order to make the games equalate. This championship starts with a mini league and the firts four are qualified for the semi finals.
All these make our kills improve. We take adavantage. And all this together with my friends and coaches make this campus very good.

A night at the mountain

By Javi Vela and Rafa Claveria
On Friday evening we went with a car to a mountain's house. When we arrived we putted the bags and the sleepy bags into the house. At night time the group leaders gave us a picnic, after that we explained some funny stories and some jokes. After one hour we went to sleep. The next morning we woke up and had brakfast, then we walked down through the mountain and we went to do the rafting activity.

First Junior Tournament FC Stage 2009

by Alex Torras
First day
Today the match is FC Stage vs MVP Team, they draw 1-1, the goalers are Javichu for FC Stage and the assistant Mateo Bores and for MVP Team scores Navarro.
Then, the second match play The CSI vs Champions Team which is my team. Champions Team won 1-0 and the scorer was Alex Fleta and the assistan Rafa Claveria.
Second day
Now play The CSI vs MVP Team, Ramon Isern scores three goals and MVP Team won 3-0.
Later play FC Stage vs Champions Team, that they draw 2-2!. Javi Domingo scores two goals for FC Stage and for Champions team score Rafa Claveria and I, Rafa assists me.
Semi-final 1
MVP Team vs FC Stage. They draw 0-0 but in the penalties won MVP Team and is in the final!
Semi-final 2
Champions Team vs CSI Team. For Champions Team score Rafa Claveria and for CSI Team Ignasi Castillo. We draw 1-1 but in the penalties I shot to the post and we loose. Now the final is MVP Team vs CSI Team!!!
Final
The Final is MVP Team vs FC Stage!
Tortras scores the first goal assist by Navarro. Then Navarro pass to Tortras, he shots and it is goal! Later Ramon Isern scores assist by Tortras. The match is finished with a 3-0.
MVP is the winner of the tournament!!!!
Third and Fourth position match
FC Stage vs Champions Team, my team loose 2-1. Mateo Cmapins scores assist by Javi Domingo and then Javi Domingo scores for his team, FC Stage. I score for Champions Team.

That experience is very exciting and funny.
1-MVP Team
2-CSI Team
3-FC Stage
4-Champions Team

English lessons

by Alex Mercadé
This week in English lessons we are doing an oral exposition of our Dream Team. My Dream Team is: Goalkeeper is Iker Casillas because he is Spanish and is a good goalkeeper; in the left back there is Sylvinho because he stops playing this year, in the right back there is Dani Alves because he shoot very strong, in the center back I choose Carles Puyol because he shoots very well with his head and Rio Ferdinand because he is a good player; on the left center I have Andres Iniesta because he scored a goal against Chelsea, on the right center there is Franck Ribery because he runs a lot, on the half center there is Cesc Fabregas because he scored a penalty against Italy; on the wingers there are Titi Henry because is my favourite player and Messi because is the best football player and the center forward is David Villa because he is a good striker.
This exposition we are going to explain to the familiea the last day.

A Senior point of view

By Ernest Benedito
After the success of the FCStage 2008, it has grown up quitly. Right now we are in Les, the new village where it's made FCS. I think that here it's better than in Vielha, because it's smaller and we are rear from anywhere. Here there is a football pitch, the Les' school, where we do English class, a supermarket and the hotel and residence.
Because of the success of the fist generation of FCS, the number of people has been multiplied by three, so we have been divided in two groups: Junior and Senior. Everyday the seniors do three hours of english where we have improved a lot the language because the teachers try to combine english with football. We do another three hours of football where we enjoy a lot learning new things and tricks. Finally we have a tournament at the end where we do the best of us to win it.

Día de fotos

Ayer durante todo el día se realizó la sesion fotográfica FCStage Campus 2009. Por la mañana se hizo la fotografía del grupo Junior (foto) y durante una hora se retrató a los alumnos mientras realizaban los diferentes ejercicios de regate y pase.

Por la tarde, ya con el grupo Senior, se hicieron las fotos de grupo y de los alumnos realizando disparos a portería y piruetas varias. Esperamos disponer de la fotos pronto para poder disfrutar de ellas.

Sunny para todos

Desde el blog queremos agradecer a uno de nuestros colaboradores: Sunny Delight. El lunes recibimos muchisímos zumos variados en diferentes formatos para el disfrute de nuestros alumnos. Hasta que se agoten las existencias, los estudiantes de FCStage podrán saborear todos sus variados sabores y sus últimos productos que seguro que nos darán más fuerza para recuperarnos de los entrenos y de las clases de inglés. Una vez más ¡muchas gracias Sunny!

My favorite day in the stage

By Pablo Navarro and Alex Merca

My favourite day starts when going to football stadium. This day Jaime said the groups of the training sessions. The coaches are: Quique, Jaime, Jorge, Nacho, Jordi and Jordi. This day the coach was Jaime. We started doing a "rondo" and later we went to the swimming pool with the towel for one hour, later we went to lunch.
And later we had a class ofEenglish. Our teacher is Charles. While we were in class rained a lot. And for this reason we didn't do the tournament. So we did it the next day. And finally we played a table tennis tournament and we went to bed.

Junior Table Tennis Tournament

Monday evening all the Junior students took part of the Table Tennis Tournament. After the draw, the KO games started. The students played 11 points games. The level of the players was excellent and we reached moments of high level table tennis in wich the group leaders were extremely surprised. After 22 individual games we arrived to the semi final matches. On the left side there was an apassionant game between Rafa Claveria and Balcells, with a final victory for Balcells. On the right side, Campins and JP played another extraordinary game. Only one of them could go through the final and it was Campins who achived his target. The Final was not a deception and the game beetwen Balcells and Campins was watched by all the campus students and group leaders. The victory was for Balcells, but Campins had a brilliant rush of points that left him very close to be the Championship. In general lines, we all had a great time together. We hope we will be able to play another tournament during the next few days.

¡Primer día del Campus 2009!

Después de un viaje de 4 horas y media, sobre las 19:30 de la tarde llegábamos a Les. Después del reparto de las habitaciones y de saborear la primera cena (tortilla de patatas, pollo y helado) nos reunimos cada uno con su grupo para dar un paseo por el pueblo. Antes de ir a dormir se hizo el reparto de las camisetas y bolsa de FCStage. En un abrir y cerrar de ojos, los alumnos ya estaban dormidos y descansando después de un largo día.

Hoy por la mañana han empezado las clases de inglés y los entrenos. El grupo Senior han tenido la oportunidad de conocer a Keith, Charles y Richard, los profesores nativos que tendrán durante los próximos días. Según Keith, director de la academia, ha sido una muy buena toma de contacto.

Por su lado los Juniors se han estrenado con un intenso entreno de 3 horas con todo tipo de ejercicios individuales y colectivos para acabar con un concurso de lanzamiento de penalties. Antes de comer hemos ido a por los bañadores y nos hemos dado el primer baño en un piscina bastante fresca.

Ahora los estudiantes ya han comido. Los Seniors están en el campo de fútbol y los Juniors en las clases de inglés. ¡Esperamos contar cómo les ha ido en breve!