By the numbers
There is almost no debate when it comes to Barcelona and Real Madrid in regards to the success of the academies, for the Catalans’ La Masia is rather clearly above the Merengues’ La Fabrica.
The one argument Los Blancos have in their favour on that front is the truth that they generate more earnings from their academy than Barcelona, but that is simply due to the fact that the Catalans do not sell their appealing prospects and pick to bank on them.
La Masia has been the backbone of Barcelona’s current reconstruct with players like Lamine Yamal, Gavi, Alejandro Balde, Pau Cubarsi and Fermin Lopez all practically normal in the group’s plans.
SPORT, nevertheless, have dived into the depth of the La Masia and La Fabrica debate in terms of the success of players in the staying first-division teams.
One-sided stats
As relayed by the outlet, 53 Barcelona academy products made appearances in the Spanish League in the recently concluded edition while just 30 previous Real Madrid academy students had that honour.
Additionally, 20 La Masia trainees started at least once in La Liga while that number stands at a paltry 14 for Los Blancos. In regards to goals scored ex-Barcelona academy talents lead with 79 goals while their arch-rivals’ potential customers just scored 33.
When one talks of impact in their moms and dad club, there are presently six Barcelona stars who are routine starters under Hansi Flick but just 2 who can declare to have such a safe and secure function at their mom club Real Madrid.
Further, the La Masia graduates in Barcelona have actually discovered the back of the net 29 times while La Fabrica graduates have only scored six times.
The players in the spotlight
La Masia provides. (Picture by David Ramos/Getty Images)
Inaki Pena, Cubarsi, Balde, Casado, Bernal, Gavi, Fermin, Yamal, Hector Fort, Eric Garcia, Dani Olmo, Ansu Fati, Sergi Dominguez, and Dani Rodriguez are the academy players to have actually played a league game for Barcelona this season.
Away from the club, Genuine Betis take pride in a very high strength of Barcelona academy stars with Marc Bartra, Sergi Altimira, Marc Roca and Rodri Sanchez having actually played in La Liga.
Nahuel Molina at Atletico Madrid, Oscar Mingueza and Ilaix Moriba at Celta Vigo, Ilias Akhomach and Arnau Sola at Villarreal, Peque Fernandez at Sevilla, Dani Cardenas and Ivan Balliu at Rayo Vallecano and Carles Perez at Getafe are other noteworthy names
Carles Alena at Alaves, Robert Navarro and Mateu Morey in Mallorca, Sergio Gomez and Take Kubo at Real Sociedad, Diego Lopez, Rafa Mir and Sergi Canos at Valencia and Arnau Martinez, Oriol Romeu, Abel Ruiz, Iker Almena at Girona add to the list.
Leganes’ Adri Altimira, Munir El Hadaddi and Enric Franquesa, Las Palmas’ Mika Marmol, Sandro Ramirez and Genuine Valladolid’s Raul Moro, Mamadou Sylla, Adam Aznou, Xavi Moreno and Arnau Rafus also spent time at La Masia.
Significantly, moreover, even Espanyol have a reasonable share of Barcelona Academy items regardless of all the noise they are making over Joan Garcia’s move. Javi Puado, Antonio Roca, Brian Olivan and Sergi Gomez, after all, are previous Barcelona players.