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Barcelona fields a team made up completely of products of its youth academy

Stuart_the_Red
Stuart_the_Red Posts: 1,854
in Other Football and Sports
I read this and was quite impressed:

dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2238539/Barcelona-field-La-Masia-team-time-La-Liga-game--does-Premier-League-compare.html

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  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,925
    bloody immigrants, coming over here and taking our footballers jobs
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    "300 hopefuls from all around the world"' therein lies the truth.
  • Red_Raver
    Red_Raver Posts: 467
    In the list of the homegrown Championship players at the bottom of the article, they only list Solly and Green for us. What about Wagstaff and Lawrie Wilson?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Haynes?
  • Dizzle
    Dizzle Posts: 5,190
    Wagstaff hasnt made an appearance in the Champ for us yet has he? That might be why
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    I personally do not consider Haynes, Green and Wilson in the same manner as Solly and Wagstaff as 'academy products'.

    They've been in the academy but the 'product' is a mixture of us plus whatever other professional experience they've had at Dagenham, Ipswich, Stevenage etc.

    Plus we had to buy them.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,386
    The dream.
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,286
    re-write the rules, half of your 18 man squad have to be homegrown players, starting in 2015-16. That'll force teams to nurture youth more
  • RugbyAddick
    RugbyAddick Posts: 2,081
    Red_Raver said:

    In the list of the homegrown Championship players at the bottom of the article, they only list Solly and Green for us. What about Wagstaff and Lawrie Wilson?

    They weren't playing on Saturday. Solly started and Green came off the bench.
  • matt896
    matt896 Posts: 557
    Think it's taken from the match day squad from the weekend

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  • stackitsteve
    stackitsteve Posts: 12,105
    I think the players listed (only Green and Solly for us) are the players that played this weekend.
    That is the main point behind the story, that Barcas 11 that played in the one game were all home grown players, so that would explain the missing Wilson and Haynes etc.

    I see somewhere that the best any english league team could manage this week was Crewe who had 7 academy products on the pitch.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Celtic won the European cup with a team that was from within 5 miles of the ground apart from one bloke from 30 miles away. Imagine how much half English edinburger Rod Stewart would have wept at that.
  • Richard J
    Richard J Posts: 8,033
    I see Fabregas was included as home grown,on that basis Green,Haynes and Wilson would count as Addicks.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    Lionel Messi that famous Catalan...
  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    How wonderful to have this said about us one day, Charlton Athletic today played an entire team eminating from the Barcelona youth programme.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,372
    Team full of Dannys.
  • DRAddick
    DRAddick Posts: 3,588

    Barcelona have the same youth policy as Arsenal. Spend Millions buying the best young talent from elsewhere then say they're home grown.
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    DRAddick said:


    Barcelona have the same youth policy as Arsenal. Spend Millions buying the best young talent from elsewhere then say they're home grown.

    That is what I was getting at in my earlier post. Plus of course Barcelona have the pick of more or less every Catalan who can kick a ball straight, the equivalent would be if Arsenal were the only team in London...

  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,127
    Frightening stuff here. A weekly roundup of the best goals from the Barcelona youth teams. lazyfootball.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/top-5-fcb-youth-goals-from-week-of-11412/

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