Barcelona boss has spoken out that winning a competition with home-grown players carries more value than winning it with bought talent.
Barcelona boss was pleased to find the result he was looking for, against Levante, as he fielded an entire team who had spent a time of their youth development at La Masia.
The Catalans had started the game with 10 La Masia recruits and were forced to replace the only player who did not belong to the home-grown category, Brazilian http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dani-Alves-c9869, as he picked up a hamstring injury.
Martin Montoya was thrown into action to replace the former Sevilla defender, completing an amazing feat of all 11 players on the pitch, trained by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 themselves.
The Barcelona boss was very pleased with this situation and took out time to have a jibe believed to be directed towards http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 and Real Madrid who hardly come out in trust of their academy talents.
At the weekend’s fixtures, Valencia coach Pellegrini fielded a side that only contained 1 academy product and the outcome resulted in a 4-0 thrashing by the hands of Malaga.
Vilanova was also of the opinion that winning a title with a set of your own graduates carries much more recognition than winning a trophy with bought talent.
“What other clubs do is not of my concern. Yet, I think that there is more merit given to winning titles and the Champions League with seven or eight home-grown players, as Barcelona have done in these recent years.”
The Barcelona boss also said that the players produced by Barcelona are very talented and that is the reason that they have been given the chance to perform at the biggest stage.
“They are selected for the team because we formed them and they are good, if we did not win we would not merit selecting them. If other teams do not do it then it is because they think they have other options to win.
“This is an honour and a pride of this club, of all the Coaches at this club.”
Barcelona face Alaves in their upcoming Copa match and hold a 3-0 aggregate lead from the first leg. Vilanova hinted that the team sheet would have a much different look than the side that played against Levante.
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