24 hours at FC Barcelona’s Academy

The boys and girls that grow up at the FC Barcelona Masia have very busy days. This video, screened on Thursday at the presentation of the Club’s new model for youth football, shows a day in the life at the Oriol Tort Training Centre: from the moment that the young athletes wake up, following them on the school bus, going back for lunch at the Masia, doing classes before training, having dinner and then going to bed.

Throughout its history, la Masia has never stopped expanding and a number of its former residents have gone on to have a huge impact at the Club. These have included the likes of Guillermo Amor, Pep Guardiola, Tito Vilanova, Jordi Roura, Sergi Barjuan, Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernández, as well as players that are still in the first team now, like Andrés Iniesta, Leo Messi and Sergi Roberto. All of that has helped to make La Masia a leading centre on a worldwide level.

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[poeperdhe]

The kid with the afro curls will become a big player..mark my words

[ahuevoanthony]

YouTube Recommended WHY? 😫

Here after Xavi Simmons left Barca for PSG
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[rachelliz]

Xavi Simons...curly haired little kid...he's made it big now! 💯

[khylkhyl]

Lets wait 5-6 years and watch this again

[rashidameyaw]

This is the definition of academy football. Barca is forever

[odinesenwad]

Oh God these guys are FÙCKING living a good life

[advikk]

Worldclass. This is indeed one of the best ways for players to get into the Barca first team and play in the Barca way.

[stefanslab]

If you dont have tests and homework at that school then this is my dream

[vsldrihaj]

1:52 Juan Miranda. Future first team LB

[joep]

just imagine the joy of knowing a superstar like Messi, who was on the front cover of a fifa game, came through that same system.

[killazfnm]

It’s a tough and hard life to go through as a kid, but if you’re willing to sacrifice, it will be worth it, mark my words.

[Chito]

Can you just imagine waking up and having a camera crew record you

[rosecolouredglasses]

Like a nicer gentler version of Chinese and former Soviet athletic camps.

[infoforu]

It turned out that their school was in a different location.
Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩.

[devante]

Hopefully my son can make it into the academy and become a professional one day.

[tylermorris]

This doesn't seem much different from a normal kids life to be honest, sure they have state of the art facilities, chefs, transportation, and coaching but look at it this way, Most kids wake up early eat breakfast go to school have recess/lunch/pe then go to some kind of after school activities. I was expecting something more like wake up eat individual technique training school video analysis team train sleep repeat. Futbol is my job now but even at their age I was fitting in multiple training sessions everyday while going to a ghetto school even for public school standards. Barca academy is as top notch as you can get and gives you unrivaled exposure but if you can't get over there or afford an academy close don't worry at all about it you can get literally as good as you want to be just by being self motivated to get out there and train!

[jakethedog]

I wish I went to this academy rather than public high school

[dreamplaysfortnite]

100 players join the academy and only 5% make it.
Don’t work to please the fans or the coach, work hard to please yourself, professional level isn’t easy and it never will be. So work hard⚽️🙌🏼🔥

[nowaarbutres]

Let’s wait 8-2 years and watch this again

[larshansen]

Who's here when they lose 8-2 to bayern