The reasons behind Barca’s success

For a team to win six trophies in a single season is a remarkable success in football today since it takes a lot of hard work and consistency to win even one major title, let alone six. A lot of time will pass until a team can repeat what Barcelona have just done with Pep Guardiola and his players until then carrying the title of the greatest team that ever played. Reasons for this success are numerous and they span from club’s impressive youth academy, across amazing players to Josep Guardiola who made all this possible.

Even the birds know Barcelona were the team that played the best football last season and that they thoroughly deserve all the honours, and they owe it all to club’s strategy. The Camp Nou outfit puts a big emphasis on their youth academy that produces a lot of quality players for the first team set-up and it is a real triumph of football to see a team where key positions are occupied by home grown players win all major trophies in a single season. It is no wonder that Victor Valdes, Gerard Pique, Carles Puyol, Xavi, Andres Iniesta and Sergio Busquets are such a great players when we know they have come through the ranks of famous La Macia youth academy. Even Leo Messi can be regarded as home grown player since he arrived at Barca when he was just 13.

It is not only football skills that players learn at La Macia but they are also taught how to cope with the pressures of modern football and how to become good persons above all. You will never hear a Barca player complaining for being benched or criticizing his coach or a teammate and that is what makes this team so special. Another big quality is the fact that even when Guardiola is missing key players like Iniesta or Messi, the results don’t suffer since their replacements know exactly how this team work and what is wanted from them. Barca have their own style of play and every player that steps into the starting line-up is asked to adapt to it rather than vice versa.

For all those reasons Barcelona are one of the most supported teams in the world and they manage to stay at the top despite not investing large sums of money for buying new players like, say, Real Madrid. The Catalans only buy players when they don’t have a home grown player in that position capable of doing the job, which is really rare. Every single season we see very talented youngsters coming through the ranks and making the step to first team football without any problems, which gives the team a big advantage over their rivals. For all these reasons, Barca are the big club, if not the biggest in the world, and I can only see them going from strength to strength.