Burgos: Our Football Adventure

by Albert Garcia

A group of children and adults from a London school travel to Burgos, Spain, for a three-day football tournament. Despite a shaky start with luggage that's falling apart, the group arrive in Spain without further hiccups. The accommodation isn't exactly five-star but it does the job. Their days are filled with football matches, and the odd trip to the infirmary, and their evenings are spent exploring the nearby town. As the tour comes to its final stretch an uncanny twist of unfortunate events at the airport adds more than football talk to their stay. Little do they know that this is where their adventure really begins.

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 1, 2016

About the author

Albert J. Garcia is a native of Northern California. He grew up on a walnut orchard near Red Bluff, and much of his work has a connection to the valley. He graduated from California State University, Chico, and the University of Montana. He is the author of a book of poetry, Rainshadow: Poems, published by Copper Beech Press, and of a textbook, Digging in: Literature for Developing Writers.

His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Laurel Review, Poetry East, Mid-American Review, Yankee, The North American Review, and other journals. Among his awards, he has received an Emerging Artists Fellowship from the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission.

A former naturalist at Lassen Volcanic National Park, Garcia currently lives in the rural community of Wilton, California, with his wife and three children. He has taught community college English for 22 years, and serves as dean of the Language and Literature Division at Sacramento State City College.