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Flagship offering

Amini Beyond the Game

Football. Brazil. Beyond the Game.

Brazilian football is more than something you watch or play. It is a culture, a community, an identity, an industry, an art form and a powerful way of connecting people.

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The central idea

Football is bigger than the game.

Amini Beyond the Game is an Amini Football Management platform for international football experiences in Brazil, bringing together football, cultural immersion, international encounter and human development. From Football Abroad to immersive football excursions and the residential Scholar-Athlete Brazil Program, Beyond the Game creates different ways to encounter Brazilian football — on the pitch, in the stands, within communities and beyond the game itself.

Football + Brazil + International Encounter + Culture + Development

Three experiences

Three distinct ways into Brazilian football.

Young players competing in a small-sided match on a Brazilian court

01PLAY

Beyond the Game — Football Abroad

7–10 days
6–25 participants
From US$2,300 pp

Football-first. Train. Play. Compete. Experience Brazilian football from within the game.

A football-first experience in São Paulo for ambitious young players, primarily aged 16–22. Training, technical and tactical development, small-sided football and futsal, competition and Brazilian football immersion — alongside cultural encounter, personal development, exposure to football environments and the exploration of careers beyond playing.

Come and play Brazilian football.

Developmental, not a recruitment or trial programme. Exposure and education, not recruitment — no trials, contracts, recruitment or placement are offered or implied.

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Brazilian supporters filling a stadium terrace at night

02EXPERIENCE

Beyond the Game — Immersion Excursion

10–12 days
6–16 participants
From US$2,800 pp

Matches. Stadiums. Supporters. Culture. Brazilian football experienced from the inside and beyond the pitch.

An immersive Brazilian football experience for people who love football but do not necessarily want to play competitively. Professional matches, stadiums, supporter culture, football history, clubs and football institutions, Brazilian football communities — with Brazilian food, samba, football heritage, recreational football and futevôlei. Based in São Paulo, with potential Rio de Janeiro experiences.

Come and experience Brazilian football.

Deliberately experiential — not an academic course, football academy or social-impact programme.

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03PLAY. LIVE. LEARN. CHANGE.

Beyond the Game — Scholar-Athlete Brazil Program

2 weeks
6–25 participants
From US$3,000 pp

A residential international student-athlete experience combining football, culture, inquiry, community and positive action.

The most intellectually ambitious programme in the Beyond the Game family. Participants play football, live together, experience Brazil, learn through inquiry and engage in intercultural encounter — exploring football as culture, art, social institution and vehicle for human development, engaging with communities and developing participant-led Football for Change projects.

Play. Live. Learn. Change.

The Scholar-Athlete Brazil Program is owned and delivered by Amini Football Management. Amini is in the early stages of seeking endorsement from an international education institution; the programme is not currently endorsed or accredited by any such institution.

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Safeguarding & supervision

Under-18s are supervised at all times.

Chaperones and Amini staff are consistently present for under-18s travelling alone — during travel, training, activities and in accommodation and lodgings.
In any mixed group, under-18s are accommodated and grouped separately from over-18s and adults.
Supervision arrangements, staffing ratios and accommodation details are confirmed with parents, guardians and institutions before travel.

What makes it different

Beyond the Game is not simply one thing.

It is an integrated Amini experience combining football, Brazil, culture, international encounter and human development. The three programmes simply offer different ways into that experience.

A football camp
A tourism package
A conventional football tour
An academic course
Football + Brazil + Culture + Encounter + Human Development

Within the Amini ecosystem

Connected to Consulting & Institutional — but its own family.

Amini's consulting and institutional work includes football camps, international tours, institutional programmes, developmental football experiences and consulting for clubs, academies and schools.

Beyond the Game is different because it is a defined Amini-owned programme family, with its own identity, programme architecture and international participant experience — a flagship Amini experience supported by the organisation's wider expertise in football development, international programming and institutional programming.

Explore what Amini does

Go beyond the game.

Whether you want to play Brazilian football, experience its culture from the inside, or explore what football can teach us about ourselves and the world, there is a way into the game.

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Full programme detail lives in the official brochure at beyondthegame.aminifootball.com