The ex-Barcelona president hoped for a world beating team full of youth academy players and the dream looks close to being fulfilled.
Joan Laporta was one of the first who coined the idea amongst Les Cules that one day they will have a team made up entirely of La Masia academy graduates.
Laporta hoped that one of them will have the crown of the best player in the world, while the rest of his teammates make up the best team in the world.
Four years since his ousting from the board room in acrimonious conditions, the said dream is now closer to fulfilment. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lionel-Messi-c22296 is considered not only the best player amongst his contemporaries but one of the greatest the world has ever seen.
Young Messi is coached by another La Masia graduate in the form of Pep Guardiola, who currently enjoys the rank of the best manager in the world. The retired Spanish international has won 13 out of the 16 competitions he has sent his team out and looks to
add to his tally come the end of May.
The duo are not the only players to have come through the youth ranks of the fabled ‘Farmhouse’. In Barcelona’s latest outing in La Liga against Getafe at the Camp Nou, the mixture of the starting eleven raised eyebrows across the footballing world.
As many as ten players have come through Barcelona’s youth ranks. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexis-Sánchez-c4979 was the only player not to have an association with the Catalan club earlier in the development stage of his career.
It is the second time under Pep Guardiola’s tautology that such a resounding number of home players have taken the pitch from the get go.
Back in December, Guardiola sent out a squad of 10 La Masia players and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dani-Alves-c9869 to complement them in their Copa del Rey knockout fixture against L'Hospitalet.
The result of the match was a phenomenal proof of the quality coming from the juvenile sides of the European champions. At the full time whistle, Guardiola welcomed his players back into the dressing room with the score board reading 9-0.
With six matches remaining in La Liga, Les Cules will pray that the home grown players continue to spur on La Blaugrana to title success.
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