Walter Obregón is a former Racing and Junior player who decided a little less than a year ago to take a professional trip to Canada. He is the coach of Manitoba FC, a team in USL League Two, the largest pre-professional men's soccer league in North America.

Obregón is currently in the country as coordinator of a women's training center that will play several friendly matches, where Córdoba will stop. The academy is called 1v1 Futbol Dreams and is based in the city of Winnipeg. It also functions as a sort of career for the team Obregón coaches.

They arrived in the country a few days ago and their first stop was Buenos Aires. “It’s not every day that a team from the other side of the world comes to discover our culture. Many came accompanied by their parents. We are a delegation of nearly 40 people. I hope they take the best of our country and see how we live football,” Obregón told Mundo D.

“They wanted to know our football and our culture, so that everyone had it on a pedestal and that Argentina was highly appreciated. We visited typical places in Buenos Aires, such as the Caminito, La Boca, the Obelisk”, he added.

They played a match against Lanús and another yesterday against the Argentine under-17 team, which ended with a 2-0 victory for the Albiceleste. “The girls became national champions of Canada, in a tournament that is played every year in different regions of the country and then qualify for the final rounds. As a reward and for the experience of being in the land of world champions, this trip was offered,” said the Cordovan.

This Thursday the delegation arrived in Cordoba and three very interesting matches await them, since they will face Talleres, Belgrano and Instituto. The match program will be as follows: Friday at 6:00 p.m. with Talleres, Monday with Belgrano at 2:00 p.m. preliminary to the first class match and Wednesday with Instituto at 4:00 p.m. at La Agustina.

Although the category is reserved for under-17s, Córdoba teams can include players aged 18 or 19, Obregón said. “They have been working for a long time, these are Concacaf projects which date back several years. In South America, work with small businesses is much more recent; today it is more important here. In Canada, they start very young in the academies and have been playing together for a long time, with selection projects,” she said.

“Physically, there is an advantage among the Canadians, technically they are good, but they lack this pasture, which is also among the Argentines or the Brazilians. Sometimes, they compensate for a physical disadvantage in this way,” he added.