BarcelonaBarselona

Club name: Futbol Club Barcelona

Team name: Barcelona

Country: Spain

City: Barselona

Year of foundation: 1899

About club:

Club’s own alumnus in core team: Victor Valdes (goalkeeper), Andrew Fontas (guard), Sergio Buskets (midfielder), Khavi Ernandes (midfielder), Tiagu Alkantara (midfielder), Isaac Kuanca (forward), Christian Telio (forward), Pedro Rodriguez (forward), Lionel Messi (forward)

About team: Barcelona U-17 team leads at the current championship of their age category. Four players, who will participate at the tournament dedicated to FC Spartak Moscow 90th anniversary, are members of Spain’s junior national team. These are: goalkeeper Balleste Lopes Paul, guards Riera and Kanadell Rodger, Kintilia Guash Xavier and Tarin Igon Rodrigo.

About Academy:

In Barcelona Academy teams the majority of young football players represent Catalonia and only 30% - other regions of Spain and other countries of the world.

Starting from the very early training stages the academy students do all exercises with the ball. Training sessions emphasize quality of doing exercises rather than quantity. At training sessions Barcelona 16-year-old guys are taught to play one-touch football.    

All Barcelona teams play according to 4-3-3 scheme to facilitate adaption when a football player is transferred to the core team.

Achievements:

Spain Champion: 1929, 1945, 1948, 1949, 1952, 1953, 1959, 1960, 1974, 1985, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011

Holder of Spain Cup: 1910, 1912, 1913, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1942, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1988, 1990, 1997, 1998, 2009

Holder of Spain Super Cup: 1983, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011

Holder of Champions League Cup: 1992, 2006, 2009, 2011

Holder of ECWC: 1979, 1982, 1989, 1997

Holder of Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1958, 1960, 1966

Holder of UEFA Super Cup: 1992, 1997, 2009, 2001

Winner of Club World Cup: 2009, 2011