La Masia: The History of Barcelona’s Academy

La Masia: The history of Barcelona’s academy.

Barcelona’s modern success has been achieved via a unique native style. The primacy of attacking, possession-based football remains the club’s hallmark and their most distinguishable characteristic.
Barcelona have also become synonymous with academy production, developing players not just fit for first team use, but who are also bred to perpetuate that on-field identity. La Masia, the club’s youth academy, lies at its heart.

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[froote]

11 youth academy players i cant even do that in fifa

[bernardmoussa]

Such an amazing team. Only one man can stop them: Ernesto Valverde

[Colby_-_IRL_and_title_fights]

Whatever you think of Barcelonas willingness to spend you must respect their ability to find and nurture talent

[stijnbos]

Awesome as always! Maybe you could do an Ajax academy history too? Would love to see that!

[seven]

Messi, Xavi, Iniesta - no other academy will ever produce such legendary world class players. Not even Barca themselves can repeat that.

[sebastianelytron]

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[lemlem]

That 2010/11 Barcelona team may be the greatest team of all time, certainly the best I've seen in my lifetime.

[rover__sh_ot]

After seeing Lamin Yamal's performance and impact at young age I can say this is best academy which never disappoints

[schnitzelfilmmaker]

As a Bayern fan, no matter how much I enjoy winning - actually destroying teams, at the same time I feel pretty bad for Barcelona. They are European royalty with us and Madrid, so I hope they will return to the top, and it'll be even better if there's a lot of La Masia players leading the way.

[anansistirade]

As life long Barca fan this warms my heart, great story Tito

[reyeseuropeos]

Back in the day, my father told me, Zidane once told in a statement that he when was a young guy used to think one couldn't be the best without graduating from LaMasia. That's the respect la masia had and still has. Just see some their young ones rn like Balde, Gavi, Araujo. Great for barca

[tonigeorg]

This is the best football channel no doubt about it. No clickbaits and original content

[theoammonmusic]

Who would win: 100 years of history, tradition, and success

Or: One Ernesto boy

[r_odyy]

La Masia really exceeded my expectations, Ansu Fati is a beast at the age of 16 , goals and assists at his first match, People really underestimate La Masia's potential

[nbayoungblood]

Not gonna lie, been anticipating this video for a minute

[btb]

There has been a lot of publicity about the Barcelona golden generation and Manchester United’s ‘Fergie’s fledglings’ but there has never been really any coverage of the 90s Liverpool academy graduates.

McManaman, Fowler, Owen, Carragher and Gerrard all essentially came through their youth system in the space of a few years. Obviously they didn’t have the same success but the level of talent that came out together is amazing and worth highlighting.

[C_.]

Amazing, and today we have Fati, Araújo, Gavi, Pedri, Nico, Eric García, Puig. A real machine of talents.

[miftekharabir]

It's really rare and amazing that an academy produced such talented and skillful players at the same era/generation. I think even Barca can't repeat that now.

[Carl-zkhl]

Ansu Fati will not be the second coming of Messi.

He’ll be the first Fati

[Jalerbo]

This is why I love Barcelona, VISCA BARCA!! a por la champions esta temporada carajo!!