The Catalan youth academy has produced World Cup winners, Champions League heroes and a five-time Ballon d'Or icon Football academies exist at almost every club, particularly at the elite level, but ...

When Lionel Messi arrived at La Masia as a young teenager, he was small, reserved and had jaw-dropping talent. Maybe not much has changed since those early chapters on FC Barcelona's famed academy ...

Barcelona’s young star, Lamine Yamal, has recently made an incredible gesture that has touched many people at the club’s famed La Masia academy, reports Mundo Deportivo. In a heartwarming move, Yamal ...

Barcelona’s La Masia academy stands as a testament to football excellence, having produced some of the best players in modern football. From luminaries like Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernandez, Andres ...

When Claudia Riumallo Pineda wakes up, it does not take her long to know where she is. From her bedroom window she can see the Johan Cruyff Stadium inside Barcelona's Ciutat Esportiva training ground, ...

It's hard to imagine any American kids playing at the level that you'll see in this week's Overtime feature on La Masia, the youth academy that feeds pro players to what's arguably the best soccer ...

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of La Masia, the residence at the Ciutat Esportiva, opened in 2011, has changed its image. The Oriol Tort Training Center has been modernised so that the residents ...

Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne, Bologna, Stanford, Harvard.. there can be a lively debate there. In football, none: the leading academy of the king of sport on the planet is called La Masia, evidence ...

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of the L.A. Times soccer newsletter. I’m Kevin Baxter, the Times’ soccer writer. We begin this week in Spain, where La Liga was shut out of the Champions ...