From Lamine to Guiu: The academy players who have played under Xavi in 2023

In the middle of a quite irregular season of the FC Barcelona, again appears the Barcelona quarry has showed like a hope for the first team. And it is that Xavi Hernández has finding in several canteranos splits of the goal that does not finish to find, or at least of this intensity that so much has asked to the team when finishing the party in front of the Almería the past Wednesday.

Precisely after this duel arrived the friendly that has contested the Barça to close year in Dallas in front of the America of Mexico, a party that finish in defeat (2-3), but that had two goleadores canteranos: Lamine Yamal and Marc Guiu. To the equal that in the last days, some member of the Farm has appeared to mark and try take out to the team of the sea of doubts in which it finds from does more than two months.

Already Xavi aimed after the friendly in Dallas that "there are footballers that does not touch them by age and are in the first team. 16, 17, 18, 19 years, is very soon for them, is a lot of responsibility. But it is what touches by the economic situation of the club", aimed. If we take into account this profile of footballer, added to Sergi Roberto, Oriol Romeu or Iñaki Crag, the Barça has had on the field this season until 18 footballers that have gone through the Masia.

Of course that the list lead it canteranos consolidated in the first team like Balde, Gavi and Araujo, but to them already is necessary to add to Lamine Yamal. The extreme, beside his three mates, already has surpassed the 1.000 minutes between the 24 official parties contested by the club this season between LaLiga and Champions League.

Participations increasingly important of the Masia

Very near it positions Fermín that happened quickly to be debutante this campaign to participate in 17 parties, with 712 minutes, a situation something similar for Iñaki Crag, the one who by the injury of Ter Stegen already has completing 7 meetings. From there the list continues to case of players more 'punctual', but that like the case of Marc Guiu has been more than determinant with two goals in the 44 minutes played in alone 3 parties. Besides, the forward of 17 years also annotated in the friendly in front of the America the morning of this Friday.

The others two footballers of the filial that have had minutes have been Marc Casadó, with 22 minutes in two parties of Champions, and Héctor Fort, with 60 minutes in the duel of the Champions League in Amberes. To them also they add him players that have been necessary to complete announcements, like the goalkeepers Astralaga (23 parties), Diego Kochen (9) and Yaakobishvili (1), besides Pau Cubarsí (8), Unai Hernández (4), Aleix Garrido (3), Pau Prim (1), Pau Víctor (1) and Alarcón (1).