Tahuichi Sport Activities

National Activities

The Tahuichi Academy has regular daily course in two shifts; during the mornings and during the afternoons, as well as special courses during summer and winter school vacations. Tahuichi hosts 3.000 children between the ages of 3 through 19 years old, of which 2.500 receive full scholarship (free of cost) and the rest pay only $us 10.- per month. Its categories are:

National and Local Tournaments and Events

• City League Tournament participation of 17 teams from the Tahuichi Academy in its categories U-10 to U-19 in the local Asociacion Cruceña de Futbol Tournament.

• Inter-Category Tournaments are promoted through out the whole year ,stimulating the children to improve their potential in theses tournaments which draw great parental participation as well.

• National Tournaments are attended in the categories U-12 through U-19

• National Tours are organized taking Tahuichi Select Teams through out Bolivia promoting Sport Yes – Drugs NO.

International Activities

International Annual Competition

Social Cultural Activities National

• Free Medical and Dental Assistance to children
• Nutritional program for Select Teams
• Weekly T.V. and radio program “Pelota de Trapo”. See Tahuichi Multimedia.
• International Fare in Santa Cruz-Bolivia
• Sport and Social Anniversary Week in May
• English Scholarship Programs Santa Cruz-Bolivia
• Educational, psychological and motivational conferences, group dynamics
• Christmas Party and Official Tahuichi Christmas Card contest for children

International

• Assistance to the Congress of “Children of the Earth”, United Nations Vienna, Austria 1994
• Assistance to the Conference Sport Against Drugs – International Olympic Committee Rome, Italy 1996
• Tahuichi representation as “Ambassador of American Youth” of the Organization of American States (OAS) for the “Cumbre de las Americas” in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
• Latin-American and Caribbean Youth Congress, OAS-Mexico 1993
• World Youth Leadership Training Summit in New York, USA 1995
• 1st World Youth Drug Prevention Forum (BANFF-Canada) 1998
• Meeting on Sports for the Prevention of Drugs Abuse, Rome – Italy 2001 (UNDCP)

Latin American Society on Youth Sport Medicine

The Latin American Society on Youth Sport Medicine presided by Dr. Jorge Flores A., organized the First World Medical Seminar of Youth Sport in 1996 with the participation of doctors of each of the participating teams in the Mundialito Tahuichi “Paz y Unidad”. Different aspects regarding the “young athlete” were analyzed during this seminar such as: prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, arterial tension and auto esteem involving the young athlete.

Statistics

Tahuichi in Kilometers

Air 1,390,000
Train 62,000
Sea 8,020
Bus 94,000

Total 1.554.020 Km.

• Times around the world: 39

Tahuichi Performance Statistics

See historical review of disputed tournaments

National Select Team Players

In the Bolivian Professional Soccer League more than 200 Tahuichis have played in almost all the national soccer clubs as well as several national select teams: