In Spain, the two clubs focus very heavily on young players: in Catalonia they produce them at home and in Madrid they snatch them up for millions around the world. The result? The podium of the best Under 20s is shared by them. And among the top ten, three are blancos and two blaugrana
In the end we always return there, to the old adage that has accompanied Barcelona and Real Madrid for years when talking about and comparing the training aspect of the two great La Liga clubs: cantera vs cartera. That is, nursery versus wallet. On the one hand, the famous Blaugrana school which for years, in regular waves and with truly stratospheric peaks of excellence, has been churning out talents who land in the first team and transform it into a first virtuous and then successful model; on the other, the economic firepower represented by the Casa Blanca, which if it sees a promising young man goes and buys him.