On April 12th, 2010 in the Opinion section of el Periodico, an article titled “The paradigm of Barca” was written. The article was written a day after El Clasico between FC Barca and Real Madrid in Madrid’s home stadium. The win by FC Barca all but clinched up La Liga and the article looks into how each team has been built so differently. The writer states that “Bara is the depositary of a new paradigm football which is insufficeient to pull the checkbook and improvise a galaxy”. The way that this current Barca team has been built is completely unlike that of Real Madrid’s whose reputation is to open up the checkbook and spend what they need to so they can bring in the top players of the world. Yet this current Barca team led by possibly the best futbol player in the Lionel Messi, has grown up together. Messi and many of the other current Barca players started playing together at a young age and went through the Barca growing up phase together. The way this team is built gives hope to other clubs to prove that in order to win you don’t always need to go out and spend the most money. Yes, Barca does have one of the highest payrolls of any team in any sport in the world, but the simple paradigm of getting this players at a younger age and grooming them together has proved to be a success as FC Barca is coming off the first six championship season in the history of futbol.
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