Imagine if you and a group of teammates got a chance to play baseball against Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice and Bill Lee, or hockey against Bobby Orr, Gerry Cheevers, and Phil Esposito. Now imagine if you got to play these games at places where you grew up watching your heroes, like Fenway Park or the old Boston Garden. And now imagine that those players would return the favor and visit an athletic venue close to where you live for a tournament against you and your teammates.That, in a paragraph, is the dream of Lynn businessman Spiros Tourkakis, who plans to achieve this in soccer.Tourkakis is the president of the Lynn-based Boston Braves Football Club (FC), a team of senior soccer players. (Tourkakis, a Lynnfield resident with degrees from UMass, Suffolk, and MIT, is also the team’s goalie.) When not managing East Coast Seafood, an Alley Street business, Tourkakis is working to realize his twin missions: continuing to play against teams of former soccer stars abroad, and planning a World Cup for senior soccer players. Tourkakis has Manning Field in Lynn on his list of possible hosts for World Cup matches. The team plays today at Manning Field (6:30 p.m.) against senior players from the Greek squad Pierikos.The senior soccer circuitTourkakis, 52, is a tall, bespectacled man whose energy probably benefits him in front of the net. He has played soccer since he was 44, mostly as a goalie.He defines senior soccer as being for players over 35, the same number as the amount of players on the Braves’ roster. Seven countries are represented among the Braves membership. Ninety-five percent of the players live in the Boston area. When the Braves travel abroad, half of the roster makes the trip. Tourkakis created the team in 2001.”It’s a fulfillment,” he said. “It gives us an opportunity to travel and go to places we’ve never been in otherwise. We’d never have been to Russia or Brazil if not because of that. It’s a fun thing to do.”Also, it was what he described as a lack of organized opportunities in soccer that motivated him to create one of his own.”Although there are activities in senior golf and tennis, there’s not much in senior soccer,” he said. He said that a need exists for “somebody to take it and make something better. Whether it is us or somebody else is unknown.”In New England, there is an Over-the-Hill League with 200 teams for players 35 and up, but, Tourkakis said, “initially there was no activity that could bring (senior soccer players) together worldwide.”Tense times abroadAbout a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Tourkakis and a group of fellow senior soccer players flew to Greece for a tournament. (It was a homecoming of sorts for Tourkakis, who was born in Athens and moved to the US in 1978.) The terrorist attacks impacted both the tournament, which was nearly cancelled, and the Braves’ roster.”Most of the team members quit” after 9/11, Tourkakis said. “We had to reach out to communities north of Boston. It was a patchwork job. At the time, it was very difficult.”Tourkakis seems like a persistent man. He brought the Braves to Greece during a time when many people feared flying. His plans didn’t stop with the tournament. Instead, they increased to seeking out contacts with representatives of top international teams to see if the Braves could play against their former stars. These teams included Manchester United in England, Juventus in Italy, and Real Madrid in Spain.”It was extremely hard in the beginning,” Tourkakis said, summarizing a team’s response as “You don’t know us.” He added, “They think we wanted to use them, make money off them. We were an unknown bunch of players.”However, he said, “We were persuasive. Sometimes we went to visit, meet them in person.”Persistence seems to have brought results. The team website, bostonbraves.net, mentions subsequent trips to Greece to play veterans from Sparta and Panathinaikos in 2002, to the United Kingdom to meet and play past stars from Manchester Unit