The dimly lit, studiously grey lecture room carries the feel of a sixth-form block in a suburban high-school. On the opposite side of the street, about the width of a football pitch away, stands a typical Aldi supermarket, intensifying the acute sense of suburban normality. But this is no conventional school environment.
This is the heart of La Masia 2.0, Barcelona’s modern incarnation of the famous residential farmhouse that helped nurture the finest generation of footballers the club has ever seen. The place where Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernández, Carles Puyol, Andrés Iniesta and the rest of the tiki-taka brigade were schooled in the art of strangling the opposition with relentlessly mesmeric ball-hogging manoeuvres.
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