La Masia
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Key facts
- Alternative names
- La Masia
- Location
- Barcelona , Spain
- Completed
- 1702 ; 324 years ago ( 1702 )
- Renovated
- 1966 ; 60 years ago ( 1966 )
- Owner
- FC Barcelona
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Encyclopedic overview
La Masia de Can Planes, usually shortened to La Masia ( Catalan pronunciation: [lə məˈzi.ə]; English: "The Farmhouse"), is FC Barcelona's youth academy. It includes more than 300 young players and has been an instrumental factor in Barcelona's European success, producing several world class players and is considered the best youth system in world football.
In 2010, La Masia became the first youth academy to have trained all three finalists for the Ballon d'Or in a single year: Lionel Messi, Andrés Iniesta and Xavi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Masia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.