Tuesday, December 12, 2017

The Flight Home to California and a Few Final Photos from the Week


Monday, December 11, 2017:

Finally, it was time to head home to California but not before one final early morning walk about Texcoco before boarding the 8:00 a.m. shuttle to Mexico City's Benito Juarez International Airport . . .

City Hall was all spruced up for
the Christmas Holidays

Cool Aztec influenced stained glass

Tuesday is the Feast of the
Virgin of Guadalupe

Texcoco's brightly lit arcade

Aztec Poet Emperor
Netzahualcoyotl

 The FirstInn's wall ad about
our home the past week

The morning constitutional out of the way, it was time to say adios to more teammates and fellow coaches as nine of us boarded the shuttle for the hour ride to the airport.

Due to the shuttle times, I was
about four and a half hours early

Breakfast and coffee helped fill in the time.

 We did indeed take off on time

 It was a smooth flight and it was
good to be home

As always, it was straight to Cronies
after flying into LAX

This U19 Europe Warriors experience made it 11 EuroBall coaching experiences (Italy 2008 & 2009, Sweden 2010, 2016 & 2017, Switzerland 2012, France 2012-13, Spain 2015 & 2016 and Europe Warriors twice in 2017).

It will become an even dozen when I head back to Italy to coach the mighty Varese Skorpions in 2018.

Now for some last random photos from this past week, thanks to Sue Valdivia for all of these shots.

Coach Danny Tam

Offensive Huddle

WHEE!

Crazy Spaniards

OC Erick Pérez

Oskar Wypych (Poland) kicking a PAT

Having Fun

 Coach Danny Tam
leading a water aerobics class

Photo Bombing is fun

Setting up the Field Goal unit

Coaches Tobias Fuchs, Danny Tam
and Mauricio Jaworski

Charging through the
Chapingo pool water

 Impromptu Coaching Staff Meeting

With LB Joe Christian from the UK

Tacos and Coaches at Chapingo

Head Coach Bart Iaccarino

Nice Hands Oskar!

"Hmm, should I get two tacos or just a
huarache after this practice?"

Mugging for the camera

No take downs

WR Coach Gustavo Rosso needs to
work on his DL stance

Universidad Autónoma Chapingo
Toros Salvajes

Coach Preston Bailey

Not only passionate for football, he is passionate for life!

The Pit

RB Eudald Sabater from Spain

QB/Holder Narcis Bach from Spain

Well, Catalunya to be a bit more precise.

Manuel Schabel from Austria
at Center

 Fighting for the ball

#55 Jørgen "Beefcake" Sørå Gulbrandsen
from Norway

Coaches Mauricio Jaworski and
Preston Bailey make for a lot of
fun on and off the field

Two extremely live wires!

DC Michael Wood

Care to dance? 

 The Pride of Murcia, Spain
Alberto Onofre Martinez Talavera

 Our Offensive Line

Joey Fuentes from Spain and
Levi Brock from the UK pulling on air

Finally, I got this picture taken at the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo on Tuesday, the morning after we left Texcoco.

BRRRRRRR!

Thank goodness we got out of Mexico just in the nick of time!

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