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Midway via his first season at FC Barcelona, supervisor Hansi Flick has embraced the custom of blooding younger gamers from La Masia, having handed debuts and first-team breakthroughs to a number of academy skills already.
Whether or not as a consequence of monetary constraints or the distinctive high quality of the gamers, the German tactician has persistently relied on La Masia since his arrival at Barcelona.
Flick’s love for La Masia
As highlighted by Mundo Deportivo, Flick’s Barcelona beginning lineups in all competitions are recurrently stuffed with gamers from the La Masia academy.
He has proven no hesitation in giving them alternatives, and in some circumstances, he has helped them make a reputation for themselves when the second arose.
Underneath Flick’s administration, Marc Bernal, Sergi Dominguez, Dani Olmo, Andres Cuenca, and Toni Fernandez have all made their debuts.
Some even rely Gerard Martin and Pau Victor to be a part of the academy, as they’ve featured for Barça Atletic of their first seasons on the membership in 2023/24.
On common, Flick has fielded 5 academy gamers per match. He initially began with 4: Pau Cubarsi, Alejandro Balde, Bernal, and Lamine Yamal. Nevertheless, crew circumstances have pushed him to rely extra on the youth expertise at his disposal.
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The damage to Marc-Andre ter Stegen, which led to Inaki Pena’s promotion, the signing of Olmo, and Gavi’s restoration, have all been essential in growing the variety of academy gamers in his lineups, with the determine rising to 6 and even seven.
The interval with essentially the most academy graduates on the pitch occurred throughout the matches in opposition to Alaves, Sevilla, Bayern Munich, and Actual Madrid, the place Flick persistently fielded six academy gamers, and the Espanyol recreation, which noticed the quantity rise to seven (Pena, Fort, Cubarsi Balde, Casado, Lamine, and Olmo).
It’s also true that Flick prefers a set core of gamers, which has led to repeated line-ups, and Hector Fort has not but managed to interrupt into the beginning XI with Jules Kounde taking part in nearly each recreation at right-back.
The technical resolution to exchange Pena with Wojciech Szczesny in some video games of late has lowered the academy illustration barely.
However with Cubarsi, Balde, Casado, Gavi/Olmo, and Lamine recurrently within the crew, the presence of La Masia graduates stays safe, a lot to the delight of Barcelona supporters.
