“La Masia has shown throughout Barcelona’s history that it is the quickest and safest way to create ready-made players for the club — and it’s been forgotten sometimes,” they said.

In the aftermath of the Blaugrana’s 2-1 UCL triumph over Inter Milan in December, a first ever at the San Siro, official social media accounts were awash with the “Made in La Masia” slogan.

For all the bright-eyed self promotion and talk of “Made in La Masia”, FC Barcelona sometimes have a funny way of showing that they are proud of their world-famous academy and trust the fruits ...

Just over three years after moving in, Yamal made his debut against Real Betis. "Lamine, they put him in La Masia. Why? Because with the coaches there was someone who could model his way ...