#UEFA Youth League

[peligrosapop]

Barca’s Juvenil A Uefa Youth League team won against the Porto one. 0-2 with goals from Marc Guiu and Angel Alarcón (who just came back from injury). They are both strikers, good strikers from La Masia?!!!!! I might faint. Big game from CB Cubarsi who is earning a lot of hype.

!Felicidad! ¡Vamos equipo!

[soomovic]

Andrey Arshavin, Arsenal v Barcelona 2011.

[realmadridnews]

Real Madrid U19 - VfB Stuttgart U19 1:0

scorer: 1:0, Yanez 32'

Real Madrid U19: Alvaro Gonzalez; Fortea, Aguado, Valdepenas, Liberto (80' Casas), Roberto Martin (57' Izan), Duiran (80' Melvin), David, Mascaro (57' Fortuny), Yanez, Aimar (71' Barroso)

VfB Stuttgart: Hellstern; Spalt, Agzikara (68' Scott), Catovic (78' Knezevic), Janijic, Di Benedetto (68' Luers), Korkut, Azevedo (56' Hajdini), Penna, Raimund (68' Tsigkas), Bujupi

[fortheredbullboys-blog]

I really love the UEFA Youth League

Because it’s not only about the competition

It’s very educational

You get to learn about other teams academy, how

did they do recent years, what young players are

promoted, what the team have done to protect

the rights of these young men, any technology or

equipment they update, any junior coaches doing

well, etc.

[srdyoungstars]

Les SRD Young Stars ont eu le plaisir de participer le 22 avril 2023 à Nyon au UEFA Young League Social Programme. Voici une magnifique vidéo de cette belle journée.

[katelynnwrites]

friends to enemies to friends again

[anditwentlikethis]

Porém contudo onde é que estão o Rodrigo e o Mateus? Eu tou-me a passar ELES PRECISAM DE MINUTOS NA EQUIPA A

[didalexiabreakupwitholgayet]

idk if this is way too much to ask of you 😅 but can we have more info on the barça b babies? 🫶🏼I’ve only focused on the women’s team since getting into football last summer and don’t know much about them and their team, stats, injuries etc.

so some basics: the first team squad for barça currently has 21 players, but you can use players from the reserve team for first team matches. it's a great way to give more experience to the b players who have potential and a way to have more squad rotation.

the main b girlies for us this year have been vicky lópez, martína fernández, giulia dragoni, and lucía corrales. and the b team has been a very successful feeder into the first team!

per uefa rules: players who are 16 years of age or older by the end of the calendar year when the match is played are eligible to play. each club is responsible for submitting to uefa an A list of players (list A) and a B list of players (list B). no club may have more than 25 players on list A during the season. (there are even more detailed rules that you can read on the uefa link above).

la masia has a reputation for a reason, and there are protocols in place to make sure that the b girlies are not doubling up on practices and their health is monitored. that's why barça tracks biometrics for all our players, so that they are not overworked or overconditioned. and the b girls play mostly for the b team, except for some matches against lower ranked opponents or as subs. so it's not like they are all playing 90+ minutes against first team real madrid on saturday and then have to do another 90+ minutes against a b team opponent on sunday. now of course, there is an epidemic of injuries in women's football with no easy answers, and sadly that's affecting b team girls too.

so i won't go through all the barça b players, but here are some who have shown great potential:

vicky lópez - she's 17 years old and is one of the regular subs for the barça first team. and she already has two caps with the spanish national team. she's one of alexia's daughters and has a lot of flair as an attacking midfielder. also, her mom passed away when she was 11 (another way she relates to alexia in losing a parent when young), and the goal celebration above is to honour her mum.

giulia dragoni - another 17 year old wizard in the midfielder and has earned 8 caps for italy and went to the world cup last summer! it looks like giulia will be loaned to roma's first team next season, which will be a great move for her and i think she has the potential to be a regular starter there before coming back to barça. she was the youngest non-spanish player to make her debut for the first team.

lucía corrales - she's an 18 year old winger and has been a force for barça and the spain youth teams and has scored some important goals in important matches for them. mundo deportivo has described her as the heir to mariona and you can see some shades of her in the way lucía plays.

martina fernández - she's a 19 year old defender and captain of the b girlies and the spain u23 squad. she was part of the first class of female students to be in residence at la masia. she's training to be one of the cb successors to mapi and paredes. also, she's a brainiac and studies biomedical sciences and works in a lab in her free time!

ariana arias - ari is a 20 year old striker who came over from real madrid, if you can believe it! she has spoken out about suffering from harassment and psychological abuse while at real madrid! and last year was the top scorer of the primera federación (b league). she's had two goals for the first team so far.

ona baradad - ona is a 20 year old forward who already has multiple caps for the first team, having debuted back in 2021. she ruptured her acl last year but has recently returned to play. she has a lot of explosive and dynamic quality.

txell font - she's the sister of gemma font and is an even better gk in my opinion! she's also recently injured but has so much potential. barça really churn out some of the best gks around!

honourable mentions: martine fenger (norwegian national who some say have the potential to be better than ada!); onyeka gamero (one of the nominees for young player of the year in usa). emilia szymczak (17 year old who nows plays for poland national team).

anyway, this is just a start! can't wait to see more from them in the future!

[peligrosapop]

Youth Champions League is also coming to Porto, Masia kids I’m excited to see play : Cristo (Gavi’s Cristo), Cubarsi (CB coming up who is insane), Pau Prim, Marc Giui , Angel Alarcón’s comeback after injury, Darvich (he’s still adapting but he’s good) and Hector Fort. Posible surprises: Dani R & Guille. Som-hi, boys!

[thingsonmymindiwanttosay]

Fernando Torres during Atletico Madrid vs Porto UEFA Youth League | November 1st, 2022

[realmadridnews]

Real Madrid U19 - RB Leipzig U19

Juvenil A advanced to the quarterfinal of the UEFA Youth League!

scorers: 1:0, Gonzalo Garcia 24'

2:0, Perea 81'

Real Madrid U19: Quetglas; Fortea, Joan Martinez, Ramon, Yusi; Moran (88' Moreno), Perea (88' Alvarez), Palacios (83' Fortuny); Gonzalo Garcia (88' Duran), De Llanos (58' Mesonero), Iker Bravo

RB Leipzig U19: Schlieck; Hennig, Lenz (78' Sachse), Koss (70' Kuhnhardt); Schossler (58' Masanka), Bohm (78' Boog), Schierack, Onuoha, Jatta; Eduardo

[fortheredbullboys-blog]

UEFA Youth League 2002/03/16

[anass-ibrahimovic]

Zlatan Ibrahimović during the UEFA Youth League match between AC milan and Liverpool FC at Centro Sportivo Vismara on September 17, 2024 in Milan.

[fuckyeahsernando]

Fernando Torres’ Atleti U19 are through to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Youth League and will face AC Milan. ❤️🤍

[sevynchaos]

Real Madrid bids farewell to Nacho after spending 23 years at the club.

Statement below:

Real Madrid announces that our captain Nacho has taken the decision to ene his career as a Real Madrid player.

Real Madrid would like to thank and express our appreciation to Nacho, one of the club’s biggest legends.

In 2001, Nacho joined Real Madrid at the age of 10 years old, and has played throughout the youth academy until he made his first team debut in 2012. He has since defended our jersey for 12 seasons during one of the most successful periods in the history of Real Madrid. In that time he has played 364 games and won 26 trophies: 6 European Cups, 5 Club World Cup, 4 European Super Cups, 4 Spanish Leagues, 2 Copa del Rey and 5 Spanish Super Cup.

He also won the Under-21s European Championship and the Nations League with the Spanish National Team, and is currently playing in the 2024 UEFA European Championship in Germany.

Nacho brings to an end of his career at Real Madrid having been the captain who lifted La Decimoquinta at Wembley, and as one of only 5 players to have won 6 European Cups in the history of football and with the most trophies in the history of our club.

Every Real Madrid fan is extremely proud of one of the most legendary youth academy graduates in our history.

Real Madrid president, Florentino Perez said: “since be arrived at our youth academy as a child, Nacho has been an example to everyone and has earned his affection, recognition and admiration of everyone at Real Madrid. Real Madrid is and will always be his home.”

Real Madrid would like to wish him and his family the best of luck in this new chapter of his life.”

[bongaboi]

Olympiakos: 2024 UEFA Europa Conference League Winners

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Setting off wild celebrations in Athens, Olympiakos won Greece’s first European club title by beating Fiorentina 1-0 with a goal in extra time of the Europa Conference League final on Wednesday.

Ayoub El Kaabi provided the dramatic ending, diving to nudge in a last-gasp goal in the second period of extra time, with fans erupting in celebration after a lengthy wait for a VAR check for offside.

“Praise be to God, we promised our supporters we’d do this today and we did it,” El Kaabi said.

The Morocco striker – who finished as the competition’s top scorer – struck in the 116th minute of the match and dropped to his knees as he waited to see if the goal would stand after he had met a cross from Santiago Hezze.

The goal decided a game that had looked destined for a penalty shootout following an energetic but largely risk-free encounter at AEK Arena, and condemned Fiorentina and its coach Vincenzo Italiano to a second straight defeat in the final of the Europa Conference League after losing last year to West Ham.

“We created chances and had the opportunity to lift the cup but unfortunately it didn’t happy – I’m sorry,” Italiano said. “In Europe it’s not an easy thing to get this far and lose.”

Olympiakos coach Jose Luis Mendilibar secured a second straight European title after winning the Europa League with Sevilla last season.

“It’s an honor to have made all these people happy, I feel immense joy and happiness to have made people feel this way and I dedicate it to them,” Mendilibar said.

“We have achieved something that our club has never achieved before. We will celebrate it and celebrate it the way we should. Then we will start working on what comes next.” Tens of thousands of Olympiakos fans joined boisterous celebrations across the Greek capital after attending outdoor viewing parties. Youths held up lit flares in the port city of Piraeus, near Athens, where the team is based.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described Olympiakos as “a true legend,” adding in an online post: “Olympiakos has won the Europa Conference League and made history! A sensational night for the club itself, but also for Greek football as a whole.”

The third-tier European club competition took place amid a massive security operation, with some 5,000 police officers forming concentric cordons around a northern area of the capital – amid Europe-wide security concerns this summer for major sporting events including the Paris Olympics and European soccer championship in Germany.

The final was briefly marred by scuffles between Fiorentina fans inside the stadium and riot police next to them.

Although the visitors dominated the early stages of the final, Fiorentina goalkeeper Pietro Terracciano kept his team in the game with two impressive fingertip saves to block on-target shots from Daniel Podence in the fourth minute and Stevan Jovetic in the sixth minute of extra time.

El Kaabi, who scored a total of 11 goals in the competition, had been largely sidelined in the match by Fiorentina’s unyielding four-man defense.

Olympiakos players celebrated with 15,000 fans after the game, some holding their young children as golden confetti was fired into the air around the awards podium.

“It’s the best emotion I’ve felt so far in my career,” defender Panagiotis Retsos said. “I’ve had a lot of ups-and-downs but I’m very, very happy to be here.”