Calgary West Soccer Club is pleased to announce a new partnership with Fragata Futebol Clube, based in Pelotas, RS, Brazil. Fragata Futebol Clube was established by Emerson Ferreira da Rosa. Fragata Futebol Clube aims to encourage sport activities among children and teenagers in the South region of the State of Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil and offer a career choice to new generations.

CWSC and Fragata have entered into an agreement to support each other's training programs through:

1. CWSC- Fragata Summer Camps to be held in Calgary with the participation of Emerson and Fragata Futebol coaching staff.

2. Fragata Summer Camps (individual and team based) to be held at the beautiful training facilities in Pelotas.

3. Residential training for CWSC individual players to live and train with Fragata U13, U15 and U17 boys teams, (and soon to be girls program). CWSC players can stay for 1 to 12 months or longer and access scouting opportunities for professional play in Brazil.  Please see Brandon's experiences as he embarks on his training program with Fragata.

4. Tournaments in Brazil with access to to professional scouting opportunities.

5. World Cup 2014 - CWSC hopes to coordinate with Fragata, a Brazil World Cup 2014 Educational Tour with access to Brazilian National and potentially England National Training sessions, World Cup games, and more.

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Émerson Ferreira da Rosa – known as Émerson – was born in Pelotas, on April 4, 1976.

He began playing at Grêmio where he was one of the highlights of the team and won the 1995 Copa Libertadores, the 1996 South American Recopa, the 1996 Brazilian Championship, among other titles.

After a great period at Grêmio, in 1997, Emerson moved to Germany to play at Bayer Leverkusen. He played at the German team up to the year of 2000, then moving to Italy.

After Romario was dismissed from the Brazilian Squad in the 1998 World Cup, Emerson was called up to substitute him. He took Brazilian Squad’s jersey number 11, despite being a midfielder and not a forward as Romario.

In 2000, Émerson signed with AS Roma, where, in 2001, he won the Scudetto and the Italian Super Cup. His performance called the attention of Juventus and Real Madrid. Roma wanted to sell him to Real Madrid, but Emerson chose to sign with Juventus. He was sold for approximately 15 million Euros.

To see Emerson's full history, trajectories and titles, please see the Fragata website.