
The word “enjoy” stood out both in the note and underlined was that of “pin” and indicated there was also the expression “non -selfish”, unusual appreciation faithful disciple of the legendary Oriol Tort that gives its name to the FC Barcelona formation center. Gil’s gaze had located a seven -year driver who always made the best decision and whose name was Lamine Yamal. The diagnosis invited a rapid performance of the team of technicians who in 2014 formed the organization’s base soccer organization chart.
The coordinator Òscar Hernández was quickly activated once contrasted the impact caused by Lamine and sent an urgent email to Marc Serra while informed of Chief Albert Puig, later replaced by Jordi Roura and Aureli Altimira. Hernández warned about the urgency of formalizing a test and the subsequent signing of that promise born in 2007 and that at that time was on a trip “to the country of origin of her parents” – Milky and Equatorial Guinea – before the collaboration agreement between the CF La Torreta and Espanyol was formalized, which could involve a serious setback for the incorporation of Lamine. The boy immediately joined Barça and that document has acquired a value similar to the napkin that endorsed the Messi contract in 2000.
The Messi-Mamine link would be formalized a few years later, in 2008, when the Argentine anointed the Catalan in the newspaper’s solidarity calendar Sport. An iconic photo by Joan Montfort showed how the Argentine bathed a five -month -old baby born in Esplugues de Llobregat, who would lose fear in the Rocafonda neighborhood of Mataró and show his talent in the turret of the Vallès rock. Lamine’s trajectory would be faster even than Messi’s since her arrival at Barça in 2014 and especially from the promises league played in New York in 2019. The Catalans defeated Madrid in the final 6-1. A triumph that marked a challenging and ambitious generation, that of 2007, with talents such as Lamine, Pau Cubarsí and Marc Bernal, headline with Flick until it was injured in August in Vallecas.
The three are very significant players of the quarry to which Marc Casadó, Balde and Fermín (2003) have joined; Gavi (2004); Héctor Fort (2006); Eric García (2002); Dani Olmo (1998) or Ansu Fati and Gerard Martín (2002). There is surely a more prepared and daring club in the uptake and formation than Barcelona. There are children who arrive at the Masia with 6 or 7 years, they start in football 7 and debut in the League with 15 and 16. The last one has been Lamine, the flag of the Flick team along with Pedri, hired at the 18 years of the UD Las Palmas after the mediation of the technical secretary Ramon Planas. It may not be accidental that the leadership of both has emerged the season in which there has been no more signing than Olmo’s. The two participate at the end of the same football solfeo that is taught in the Masia.
The scouts look for players who have initiative, know how to generate superiorities, they are outlined and turned to gain space and time with oriented, mentally very fast so that the speed of the ball is equally high, players with good taste, as it was written in their day in the Methodology area of FC Barcelona. The ideologist was Cruyff. There was a before and after Johan. Although the quarry had always been a referential in the Barca Club, linked to teams such as industrial Spain, Condal or Barcelona Atlètic and figures such as Poszony, Llorens, Boter, Tort or Laureano Ruíz, base football did not transcend as a power supply source of the professional staff until Cruyff sat on the bench of the Camp Nou and built the soccer masia from players as a love and mile.
In the drip of past times, years of Rexach, Martí Filosia, Pujol and Fusté, or later of red, clos and Calderé, there were times in which the presence of players from the lower teams was very noticeable as it was found with the Dream Team or the fifth of the Pelat. The summit was reached in 2011 when the golden ball podium was formed by Messi, Iniesta and Xavi. The master of ceremonies was Guardiola. There was even a day, on November 25, 2012, in which Tito Vilanova ended up aligning in the field of Levante a team with 11 quarries: Valdés; Montoya, Piqué, Puyol, Alba; Xavi, Busquets, Cesc; Pedro, Messi and Iniesta. The commitment to the Masia as Academy and Residence has been more regular and solvent than a signing policy stigmatized by the bad investments made after the outputs of Figo or Neymar.
The loss lasted until there was no money, Koeman and Xavi opted for Pedri and Lamine and Flick created a team that has won the league, the cup, the Super Cup and has stayed in the semifinals of the Champions League. “We talk about a generation with a great competitive capacity at the group level,” argues Albert Puig, Coordinator of Barca Base Football from 2010 to 2014. David Fernández, an experienced Scouting That for six years he has been working for the Bayer Leverkusen, he considers that the sign of distinction is “its ability to understand and read the game collectively; they put the good of the group before their individual talent”, an observation that induces to think that its framework of expression par excellence is the current Barça. “They think as a team and have a winning mentality,” says Fernández.
“They are uncomplexed that have thrown the door of the costumes,” says Miquel Puig, who was director of the Masia (2021-2023). “They have grown up in a very professional environment and that has given them a lot of security in the field, so that today they do the same as 10 years ago. Perhaps where they found more difficulties it has been in the outside world and in the management of those things that were outside their natural habitat such as social networks; they are more exposed than the previous generations,” Puig ends. Óscar Hernández insists on the “Youth and the disappointment character” of a generation born at the Montjuïc stadium. The goal was no longer in the Camp Nou as was the case with the originals of the Masia de Can Plans (1979) that has been ambushed by the works of the Barça stadium.
“They played without fear against Madrid after being eliminated from the Champions League. They quickly forget the disappointments, adversity if they motivate them and are prepared to face the greatest challenges,” Hernández insists. “The boys do not feel the pressure,” they subscribe from the sports city. The majority of payroll technicians are silent and defends respect for the group directed by Alexanco. It is not well seen that a coach attributes to be the godfather of a player and less if he is a figure like Lamine. “They work as a family and feel protagonists on the television set on which the field has become. Already trained in the positional game, they have adapted to the vertigo proposed by a brave technician because they are hungry for titles,” says one of Barça’s most veteran coaches.
So much is their voracity that they no longer think of the subsidiary, which is in descent positions, but they aspire to climb from the youth, which has completed a stellar season with the conquest of the youth league. “Another good generation is coming, to the cadet there are excellent promises,” they warn in Barça “A new Lamine? We would be wrong as much as we were wrong when we wanted to look for a substitute for Neymar or Messi. It is not the policy of Barça base football.” Arteta already said it: “(La Masia) is the most unique environment I have seen in my life; the most competitive, the most inspiring. And probably the most professional I saw in any club or academia that replicates the atmosphere of the first team at 14 or 15 years.” Lamine is 17 and enjoys the same as when I had seven in the turret or 12 in New York on the day of 6-1 to Madrid.
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