Last month the NYCFC Academy, namely the club's U13/U14 team, took part in the XXI Mundialito Tahuichi Paz Y Unidad 2016 tournament which took place in Bolivia. The tournament consisted of teams like Millionarios FC (Colombia), Pachuca (Mexico), Danubio (Uruguay), Olimpia (Paraguay), Tahuichi (Bolivia), Florida (Bolivia), Everton FC (Chile) to name a few.
The team played a total of five games in a span of 8 days. In the group stage, they played against Florida (Bolivia) L 2-1, Millonarios FC (Colombia) D 1-1 and Menedy (Guatemala) W 5-0. The next stage of the tournament had the team facing the host team, Academia Tahuichi.