What Happened To Barca's Academy | What Is Happening To La Masia | Is La Masia Dying?

Mezger and the club are more than a club, the value by which Barcelona aims to operate and Barcelona is without a doubt one of the largest clubs in the world and many would say it is the largest and with an honor, everything that includes 27 La Liga 5 Champions League 3 Club World Cups, as well as a record 30 Coppa delle lifted and much more, it's not difficult to see why, and in recent years their trophy winning rate has increased exponentially and a key element of This era of success has been the graduates of the Barcelona Academy La Masia. Barcelona, ​​like clubs such as iyx, have always prided themselves on the quality of their youth training and, as a result, have produced many of the game's best players in previous years.

It produced the first team, including Guillermo Amor Sergey bar Juan Francisco Carrasco and one of the best-known graduates, Pep Guardiola, and La Masia has had an even greater impact in recent years, being a major contributor to the recent explosion of trophies si We assume that Barcelona's recent peak has been from 2008, many of the influential players. are from La Masia like Valdés Puyol almost all position in recent years and La Masia's peak came at the 2010 Ballon d'Or ceremony. Messi won the award with Xavi and Iniesta in second and third place, meaning that for the first time the three best players The same club and all three had been trained and came through La Masia the same year that Spain won the 2010 World Cup and mine will be products of Amasya and in 2011, after After Dani Alves left due to injury, Montoya came in and Barcelona had 11 players who had all been in the Academy on the La Masia 11 pitch, everything was going well for the Academy, but this is where things started to go downhill for the Academy, there began to be a sharp decline in Academy graduates and in 2018 the verdict fell.

Heavy criticism for fielding an entire team without a single La Mesilla graduate for the first time in 16 years, it was clear that Lona had a problem and in this video we will see

what

is

happening

to La Masia just before that. Enjoy the video, hit the like button and subscribe to help support the channel. We will continue to upload football content throughout the offseason, so be a part of it anyway. Let's get into it when you look at Barcelona's current preferred 11. It may seem strange to suggest it. that they have some problem with their

academy

since it contains 5 for my

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players, however, considering that peak is a disaster and Busquets has been in the team for over a decade, Albert left the club at 16 years and had to be brought back, he started to I notice that only Roberto has undergone surgery recently and even he plays as a right back, which is not his preferred position, but still only Roberto has less than 30 of the players current La Mesilla players in the first eleven to further illustrate this point, this table reveals that In the year 2000, Barcelona debuted players who made significant contributions quite frequently, but since Alba made his debut in 2012, of the graduates who have made more than 50 appearances, only Rafinha makes the cut, who is a new graduate of La Mesilla in the last seven years, but to know more about

what

is potentially going wrong at La Masia we must understand its history and how its operation As with iyx, Johan Cruyff was a major factor in Barcelona taking the academy to such a high level. 1979, but it was not until Cruyff arrived as Barcelona coach in 1988 that La Maza moved to the next level, as he insisted that the club take the academy seriously and saw the importance of instilling a style of play that can be used since youth. reaching the first team this will mean that when a player makes his debut in the first team he will easily integrate into the team.

This style included that all teams should use the famous 433 possession, similar to the i-x and the Sporting Lisbon Academy. When training players Barcelona concentrates on the three P's, ball possession, ball position and pressing behind the ball, as you can see physique is not one of these three P's, in fact they don't even start training with weights in the academy up to 17. while other clubs tend to bring it around 14 or 15, such as the Arsenal environment, this may explain why the mace produces light and very technical players, its main focus is to develop skill with the ball, which is why they didn't even start 11 verse 11 training until age 13.

To give players more touches on the ball during their formative years, Barcelona tends to employ young coaches who are former players who can easily continue with Barcelona's DNA when Barcelona opened La Maza 360 in 2011, an improvement over the old La Masia, which had become too small and outdated, they expanded this desire by including other sports to help others in the city who have an interest. in them. The club now extends the holistic approach to developing its residential players to be part of the academy program across five different professional sports: football, basketball, futsal, handball and roller hockey. However, the main draw is the new focus on education, as they again encourage Plan B for players who won't make it;

In fact, you'd be surprised how little time they spend. playing soccer, a typical day in La Masia looks like this during the week, they get up at 6:45 am, have breakfast and leave the city school at 7:30 from 8 am to 2 pm. It's all about classes before returning to the club to eat, rest and attend the mandatory study group, this means that training is only hard from 7 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. but just like IX coaches keep track of the smallest details of each player, from injuries to morale to technical areas that need improvement, this allows them to monitor each player and every attribute of them that needs improvement and how is. improve over time this is the routine of an average La Mesilla player and they produced many great players this way and in 2014 Barcelona B finished third in the second division and would have been promoted if it were not illegal for the B team and the first team be in the same league and, in fact, Barcelona have had a magic graduate on every Ballon d'Or shortlist since 2004, a good return on the €10 million a year they spend on it, but then they started the first warning signs of problems appear.

When Barcelona did not hold on to its best products, there began to be a pattern where the table's prospects left Barcelona to advance in their development and in the end Barcelona would have to buy them back. This

happened

with Cesc Fàbregas, Gerard Piqué and Jordi Alba, and they left. Thiago Alcântara, who became one of the best central midfielders in the world, left and they couldn't buy him back at the same time that Barcelona had routinely fielded candidates to win the Golden Boy award, a best-of-one award. A player in Europe in 2019, only one of the twini on the short list had ever been to La Masia and he even left the Academy four years before this list was published.

There are quite a few problems, including the fact that only 1 in 10 graduate from La Maza. reach the Barcelona senior team and to make matters worse, Barcelona B were relegated from Second B despite having the highest budget in the league and while in the 2000s Barcelona debuted players who would become pillars on the international stage that began. to be a decrease in the quality of graduates, some of the graduates who came recently are Muniya Cuenca, Sandra and Adam in Ryouri. Now let's look at the reasons why Lamaze has dived. We started by looking for a possible key element that is seen around the The best academies around the world focus on process objectives rather than outcome objectives.

An outcome goal focuses on whether you won or lost. The score is all that matters. In contrast, a so-called process focuses on how you played, for example, was your pass good? A positioning that has improved lately, the accusation has been that Barcelona B has been focusing on results objectives, that is, whether they win or lose, and the accusation is that they began to focus on results objectives in order to compete with The Academy is the Madrid factory, this means that instead of focusing on incorporating youth players, they have begun to retain players who could have made the step up to the first team at Barcelona B between the ages of 20 and 20.

They have even started making more transfers at Barcelona B level, bringing in older players to help. They win more games, however this blocks the way for younger players, plus Fosile only loves to use former players to coach teams. However, does this lead to Barcelona employing some coaches as favors to former players who really aren't the best fit for the job? obviously as the game evolves so do training methods so some quarters have suggested that barcelona may insist on using methods that are obsolete this has had an effect on younger players abandoning the club many players looking to progress in their career they believe that there will be better places to develop their skills and we will have more playing time by going to a different club, in addition, young players looking at the first team would have difficulty seeing a potential gap in the lineup that is now already full with a world class player. who they have to move and then there is always the financial element, agents have started to take over the players are getting younger and as we all know agents are motivated by money, like Nina Rio, she is rumored to be in charge of young prospects like Javi Simmons.

Barcelona is asked if it can compete financially with other academies. Can they compete financially very easily? But do they want to compete? That's where the gray area is if Barcelona wants to attract players based on their reputation based on the player who wanted to come. to the club and improve by learning the culture of Barcelona, ​​but many young players see La Masia simply as a prestigious Academy to add to their CV, which would allow them to demand more money when they turn professional and with Barcelona they did not want to splurge too much . They have lost many Academy prospects this way They have recently lost Academy stars Eric García Adrián banned Manchester City in this way and bula and Navarro went to Monaco while Barcelona has always had ways of dealing with the talent drink from La Masia have a A large number of scouts began around the world to find the next great player, but in 2014 they were found guilty of violating transfer regulations and were found to have violated article 19 of the laws of the FIFA when hiring international players under 18 years of age.

As a result, they received a two-window transfer ban, but by appealing the ban they set the band back a year, allowing them to prepare for this and Barcelona signed players for 170 million, including Suárez Mathieu, the Marlin Rockets, played to Aegon and Douglas, however, this meant getting rid of many of their former La Masia players to accommodate this such as fàbregas Te'o kirkuk jonathan Cuenca dennis juarez delaffei you and valdez and at the same time the ban meant they could not complement the quality of the academy with new young people acquired to join the club which caused a generational gap between the golden era and the new young people and now has all these important players for 170 million blocked several parts of several youth players after years of criticizing the galactic approach Real Madrid lately Barcelona has an option for big money signings like Osmond and Ballet and Catina, instead of attracting youngsters, which indicates the change in Barcelona's approach and this change in transfer approach has also largely dictated by a political element.

Barcelona uses a board of directors system in which the president is elected to run the club for a cycle period during the new era where La Masia was at its peak Shewanella Porta was the president of the club and valued Barcelona's identity of bringing in players from the Academy and allocate more funds to the Academy also at that time pep guardiola had been boss of the B team and then promoted to the first team and naturally he knew the best young prospects to promote to the first team, but as the years went by years, Yosef became the new president and like any good president, he wanted to leave his mark where he governed and What if a May plan to do this was to sign quality players that fans would be excited about to help his campaign of re-election and that is exactly what Barcelona have done by bringing in big names to join their team?

All of these factors have led to the The decline of La Masia means thatThey will never produce Academy graduates for their first team. No, it's not like that. In fact, they have some promising youngsters waiting to buck this trend. The owner of the package has given Elena de Carla more than 20 tops. -Appearances in the team this year and with players like Ricky Puig and Oreo Busquets waiting in the wings combined with an aging squad, we may be about to witness magic bringing in a new generation and with iyx proving this year that academies are still a valuable resource.

It could only be a matter of time before La Masia 360 produces a new generation of its own and, in the worst case scenario, they could always solve their La Mesilla products at a profit, as they have done for the last 10 years, with more than One hundred twenty. seven million euros if you liked this video, give it a like and I would appreciate it if you would consider subscribing that's all for today and remember to keep it simple