La Masia is the heart of young people in Barcelona, next to the stadium Camp Nou. It was founded in 1979 and now used for the young players have had to leave their families in Barcelona, both sporting and intellectual sense developed in the train.
Apparently have a total of about 260 young players to learn their trade here - Ninety percent of them are Spanish and over 50 percent of the Catalans. Indeed, the current team Barca have 12 first teamPlayers who come from academia.
There are several young people who have lived in La Masia, so that the first team to go play like Josep 'Pep Guardiola' (school years 1984-90), Ivan De la Peña (1991-94), Carles Puyol (1994 - 98), Andres Iniesta (1996-2001), Victor Valdes (1996-2000) and Lionel Messi (2000-04).
Pep was considered as the biggest product is La Masia. A charismatic player, 43 caps for Spain and won a gold medal in 1992Barcelona Olympic Games. He led the team to six national titles, one European Cup in 1992 and two Spanish Cups.
Puyol, a native Catalan, is the captain of the club and the current direction in his 250th game for the club.
But not all graduates of La Masia based in Barcelona and some have gone to other teams to advance their careers.
This sort have de la Pena, Luis Garcia, Jose Manuel Reina, Mikel Arteta, Gerard Pique, Cesc Fabregas and AlbertLuque.
Fabregas, Catalan, has been Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes that better paid and better future to Arsenal, and has been shown, joined Arsenal as a boy of 16 years, in September 2003.
Pique was also seized by Sir Alex Ferguson to strengthen his team. It 's a defender who is not only good for his defensive skills, but also gets forward and scores.
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