FC Barcelona B faced Alcorcón this weekend in a match that went down to the wire. While Barça B looked to solidify their eighth position in the league table, the visitors, tied in third place with Villarreal and Almería (65 points), were keen to secure a position in the play-offs for promotion to the Primera División.
This is a translation of an article originally found in sports daily El Mundo Deportivo. You can find the original article here. Some information has been added to give a clearer view of the player.
One of the few pearls in the academy that came from the Eto’o Foundation in Cameroon is Joseph Fabrice Ondoa Ebogo, mostly known as Fabrice Ondoa. The Cameroonian, born in Yaoundé on December 24, 1995 is the most promising goalkeeper currently in the academy.
Barça B central defender Sergi Gómez Solà will this afternoon sign a contract that will renew his stay with the club until 2015.
FC Barcelona has just reported that the club has agreed terms with Gerard Deulofeu (19) to extend the B team player’s contract until June 2017. The young winger has been watched by several English clubs, including Liverpool and Manchester City, and his new buyout clause of 35 million euros is a clear message from Barcelona to the rest of Europe that La Masia’s best are not for sale.
FC Barcelona faced Segunda División leaders Elche CF in Alicante on Friday evening. The youngsters played in the nearly sold out Martínez Valero stadium. Elche will be promoted to the Primera División next season for the first time since 1989, so Eusebio’s side were to face tough opposition. Besides the strength of the opposition, Eusebio also had to start the match without Sergi Roberto and Carles Planas, who picked up injuries against Lugo last week. This resulted in playing time for Portuguese defender Edgar Ié and midfielder Javi Espinosa.
Sergi Samper has today put a signature to a new contract that will bind him to FC Barcelona until the summer of 2017.
This is a translation of an article originally found in sports daily El Mundo Deportivo. You can find the original article here. Some information has been added to give a clearer view of the player.
Rodrigo Tarín Higon, born in 1996 in Chiva (Valencia), is the starting centre back of FC Barcelona Juvenil B and the captain of the Spain U-17 national team. The defender started his career at Valencia CF before moving to Barça at the start of this season.
FC Barcelona B players Sergi Roberto and Carles Planas both picked up injuries after the match against Lugo this past weekend (2-2).
In an interview with El Mundo Deportivo‘s Oriol Domenèch, Isaac Cuenca discussed his season, his future at the club, and the possible future of other Barcelona youngsters.
With speculation abounding over who will stay and go this summer, another question often slips through the cracks, a problem specific to FC Barcelona: who will get promoted from Barça B? Every year, a couple of the club’s youngsters are given first team contracts and a chance to prove their worth. Last year, Cuenca, Fontàs, and Thiago joined the team. This year it was Dos Santos, Tello, Bartra, and Montoya. Next year, likely candidates for promotion are center-back Marc Muniesa, whose season was disrupted by a severe muscle tear this fall, midfielders Sergi Roberto and Rafinha Alcântara, and winger Gerard Deulofeu, crown prince of La Masia. Read on after the break to find out what challenges these youngsters might face in their development.
A respectful minute’s silence preceded the game between FC Barcelona B and Real Murcia in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Boston. Once the game got underway, we were treated to the ‘Gerard Deulofeu Show’.
FC Barcelona’s U17 squad clinched the Spartak Cup in Moscow, Russia this week. The team enjoyed a successful campaign despite the absence of Munir El Haddadi and other second year Juvenil B players.
For the second away game in a row Barça B were greeted by a very disappointing crowd as they strode purposefully onto the pitch. Were Eusebio Sacristan’s young stars losing their popular appeal?
Eusebio Sacristan’s young side went into this match on the back of three successive defeats and were without talisman Gerard Deulofeu, on first team duty, for the visit of Mirandes.
It was grey and overcast in Huelva and that may go some way to explaining the sparse crowd at the Nuevo Columbino for the visit of Barça B.
It’s not only FC Barcelona’s first team that is looking for a new goalkeeper. According to Mundo Deportivo, the number one transfer target for FC Barcelona B next summer is Villarreal B goalkeeper Adrián Ortolà (19).
Unlike the freezing temperatures elsewhere, the Miniestadi was bathed in evening sunshine this Saturday for the match between FC Barcelona B and Huesca. Shirt sleeves were the order of the day for the 5,011 supporters as Barça’s Luis Alberto and Jean-Marie Dongou got proceedings underway.
Six FC Barcelona players were selected to play for the U-21 side of Spain in friendlies against Norway U-21 and Russia U-21. Left back Carles Planas was called up earlier, but he picked up a minor injury days before the game. Tonight was the first match of the friendlies before the U-21 Championships which will be held in Israel this June.
This match started in the best possible way for Eusebio Sacristan’s young team…..but ended in a disappointingly familiar fashion.
FC Barcelona’s Juvenil A team did not miss its chance to win the League championship. Yesterday, after thrashing Cornellà (3-0) at the Ciutat Esportiva, they won the División de Honor title. The boys in the team coached by Jordi Vinyals completed the championship with an excellent stats record, only one defeat, and have sealed their league win with five games left to play. Congratulations blaugrana boys!
Once again Eusebio Sacristan will be livid with the manner in which his young Barça side gave away this game. Third place in the table beckoned for the victors of this match-up between Las Palmas and FC Barcelona B, yet Barça’s achilles heel (at all levels of the club) – defending from set pieces – would haunt them in the dying seconds of this game.
Barça’s Juvenil A side has chance of winning the league title tomorrow if they beat tenth placed Cornellà at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper this Sunday. FC Barcelona announced on the official site that the match will be live streamed in Castillian, Catalan and English on FC Barcelona’s official YouTube channel at 12 PM CET.
FC Barcelona today stated on the club website that left back Alejandro Grimaldo, who suffered a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament and the lateral collateral ligament in the right knee, has successfully undergone surgery on Friday.
Every week at totalBarca, we bring you results of top seven youth sides at La Masia: the Juvenil A, Juvenil B, Cadet A, Cadet B, Infantil A, Infantil B and Alevin A sides. We also name the Man of the Match (MOM) performer for each category.
FC Barcelona’s Juvenil A side has waved goodbye to the NextGen Series tournament after a painful loss against Chelsea. Jordi Vinyals’ team played against a ten-man Chelsea team during the whole second half, but they wouldn’t find luck in the final third of the field.
Sadly this game will be remembered for the horrific knee injury sustained by Barça’s 17-year-old left back Alex Grimaldo rather than for the football.
Hércules arrived at the Miniestadi looking to prolong Barça’s three game losing streak. The visitors themselves have had an indifferent season and it is easy to forget that just two and a half years ago, this was a team, promoted from the Segunda Division, that inflicted a Camp Nou defeat on Pep Guardiola’s La Liga champions.
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