Barcelona opens a youth residence-catch the live video-http://www.barcaloco.com/2011/10/opening-ceremony-of-la-masia-live-video/

Today sees the opening of La Masia also know as the youth academy of the most succefull club in the world, this where the best player from Barcelona were made

La Masia de Can Planes, usually shortened to La Masia,is the name given to FC Barcelona's training facilities located near the Camp Nou in the Les Corts district of Barcelona, and is often used to generically describe the youth academy of Barcelona.

The youth academy of Barcelona holds more than 300 young players, and has been praised since 2002 as one of the best in the world, being a significant factor in FC Barcelona's European success as well as the Spanish national team's success at the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In 2010, la Masia achieved a record breaking honor becoming the first youth academy to have trained all three finalists for the Ballon d'Or in one same year, with Andrés Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Xavi Hernández.^[