On 25/11 of 2012 for the first time in history, all 11 players who were on the field with 'Blaugrana', in the match between Barcelona and Levante, for LaLiga were 'products' of Masia On April 20, 2018, Against Real Sociedad, Barça finished 11th without a member of the academy, for the first time in 16 years.
Masia is the Barcelona academy that has been the operating model for most today - with Ajax the exception. Masia hasn't been a player for years.
Operating template
The first Masia ('farmhouse') was located at a point reminiscent of the children who hosted the target: next to the Camp Nou. After the invitations were given to the boys who stood out the 15 'spies' of the team all over Spain, plus the 10 that exist in the rest of the world, the trials took place. Those who excelled won one place. Pep Guardiola came in third.
The first students emerged in 1979, with the small house, brick-built, in the traditional Catalan style that doesn't catch your eye, was originally created to accommodate those who built the Camp Nou. Then he had the club's headquarters and in 1979 he became a hostel for young players living outside Barcelona. Jaume Amat was the one who gave the idea to become an academy, so that the DNA of the historical organism could be taught first (for years it was true that Johan Cruyff had made the proposal). Players such as Thiago Alcantara, Sergi Roberto, Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez, Carles Puyol, Cesc Fabrica Rebecca, Pace and Luis have all slept and dreamed of their future with the Blaugrana in Masia's rooms. Some were classmates, in addition to teammates. Companions. They became 'brothers'.
In 2010 Masia became the first academy to have three finalists in the 'Golden Ball' in the same year (Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Xavi). In June 2011 he had to be transferred to a larger space, in the training center of the organization.
For the past eight years, Masia has been home to 60 players this season. Ten in the 'farmhouse' and the rest in the training facilities. A total of 300 children and 24 coaches are employed, while there are another 56 employees (from cooks to psychologists). To reduce costs, the organization has partnerships with 15 local clubs to train players who have not passed the exams. 'Barça' gives money and advice on training and technique. He has also invested in a school program in Mexico (five) and Egypt (one), where those who enter receive academic training, in addition to the work they do in football.
Qualifying Test
The youngest age one can enter the academy is 6 years. Each season, more than 1000 children, ages 6 to 8, undergo classification tests. The 200 best are selected. Until the boys 'close' 16 they only do ball training. After 16, they deal with their physical condition, as they try to move from one category to another in the meantime.
Obviously, the objective was always for Masia to 'get' players for the first team.
What happened? You know all is well, some time. In this case, there was a downpour, with experts saying the team's inability to get rid of the talents, lend them somewhere well, and then get them ready. According to the plan, 10% goes to the first team every year, 40% goes out on loan and the rest stay free to create room for new talent.
Tito Football
While Ajax kept all the players in the small teams, at 18 - so that everyone has time to participate and development opportunities - Barcelona had 26 in Juvenil B (U18), 22 in Juvenil A (U19) and 24 in the second team. . So he was canceling a lot of talent - he didn't trust it. Also, the priority (we have to 'make' players) has been replaced ('we have to win').
Tito Football's 'What went wrong' pointed out that the 'tiki-taka' generation was fortunate to emerge in the club's era with 'poor' results and therefore with lower demands and competitors - in the first team - who were not very strong. , because the teams were not very good. When you have a good team, it will be difficult to experiment and even more difficult to take risks with the use of new players.
He added that the times have changed and so many new talents have left, because they got more money from elsewhere, as well as that Masia does not 'play' alone. Many large organizations have built their academies to its standards. Its people are behind the one opened by Manchester City in 2014 (worth 220 million euros), while they entered the 'picture' and the agents to check who goes where - against the right supply guarantee that an academic student will stay in the club her when she grows up. A team has denied this give and take. It's Ajax.
Newly led by Patrick Clifford with the administrators finding that he also served the need for a symbol that had to be held accountable.
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