World Football

Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . This is my selection of a 25 member all-time team for players who graduated from Barcelona's academy (La Masia, or The Farmhouse).  The number 25 was chosen because it is the official squad size for the Champions' League. Catalonia All-Time Team ,  Barcelona All-Time Team Barcelona All-Time Team for Spanish Players Barcelona Dutch Best XI Dutch-German Rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona . Real Madrid Castilla Academy All-Time Team Sporting CP Academy All-Time Team La Masia de Can Planes, usually shortened to La Masia (Catalan pronunciation: [lə məˈzi.ə]; English: "The Farmhouse") is a term used for FC Barcelona's youth academy. It  has been in operation since 1979 and has graduated numerous footballers into Barcelona’s first team.  "The player who has passed through La Masia has something different to the rest, it's a plus that only comes from having competed in a Barcelona shirt from the time you...

Manchester United FA Youth Cup winners 1992 Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . M anchester United All-Time Team Manchester United Greatest All-Time Team under Sir Alex.  Manchester United Greatest All-Time Team under Sir Busby Manchester United All-Time team for British isles (excluding England) Manchester United All-Time Team for English Players   Manchester United All-Time Team for Foreign Players Barcelona "La Masia" Academy Greatest All-Time team Real Madrid Castilla Academy All-Time Team Sporting CP Academy All-Time Team Manchester United F.C. Reserves and Academy is also known as Manchester United Football Club Under-23s.  Over the years, youth football in England has been reorganised.  Many names have been used for the academy's team due to rule changes.  For this blog, I would call it the "reserve" or "youth" team. Manchester United's academy is one of the best in Europe.  Over the years, it has produced all-timers such a...

1980 UEFA Cup Please also see my   All-Time World Cup Team Index . Bayern Munich ,  Borussia Dortmund , Borussia Mönchengladbach ,  Schalke 04 ,  Werder Bremen, Hamburger SV ,  Kaiserslautern ,  Bayer Leverkusen , Wolfsburg FC Koln ,  VfB Stuttgart ,  Western German regional  Eintracht Frankfurt was founded in 1899 and have won one German championship, five DFB-Pokals and one UEFA Cup. Since 1925, their stadium has been the Waldstadion, which was renamed Commerzbank-Arena in 2005. The origins of the side go back to a pair of football clubs founded in 1899: Frankfurter Fußball-Club Viktoria von 1899 – regarded as the "original" football side in the club's history – and Frankfurter Fußball-Club Kickers von 1899. Both clubs were founding members of the new Nordkreis-Liga in 1909. These two teams merged in May 1911 to become Frankfurter Fußball Verein (Kickers-Viktoria), an instant success, taking three league titles from 1912 to 1914 in the Nord...