From Arizona to the Ciutat Esportiva

As in earlier years, three gamers from Barça Academy Residency Arizona have been coaching with the Barça youth groups to see how they’re creating when it comes to efficiency and angle. The kids who have been particularly chosen this 12 months by the US-based coaches are Graham Ford, Makai Wells and Jorge Padilla. All of them have been concerned in final 12 months’s MLS playoffs, a contest that’s getting stronger and stronger yearly. 

Three large guarantees

Graham Ford is coaching with the U16A staff, having already impressed when he was right here final 12 months on a coaching camp. This left-footed central midfielder is a superb staff participant, adept at maintaining possession, recovering balls and studying the sport usually. 

Makai Wells is figuring out with the identical U16A squad, and that is his first ever go to to Barcelona. The appropriate winger is nice on the passing sport and particularly robust in one-on-one conditions, having solely entered Barça Academy Professional Arizona final 12 months. 

In the meantime, Jorge Padilla is enjoying with the U19B staff, and can also be on the Ciutat Esportiva for the primary time after 4 years on the Arizona middle. Padilla was excellent within the MLS U16 playoffs, and that is among the essential explanation why he has been despatched to Europe to study from gamers of an analogous age. A right-sided midfielder, he is robust within the deal with and performs a really direct sort of soccer that incessantly will get him concerned in attacking performs. He’s additionally extraordinarily devoted, and his hard-working nature is one other of the primary explanation why he has been rewarded with this journey to Barcelona. 

About Barça Residency Academy USA

Barça Residency Arizona is the one such program that Barça is working in North America for the time being, and opened its doorways in 2017. There are FC Barcelona coaches primarily based onsite to make sure the proper switch of the Barça coaching methodology. Positioned at Casa Grande, it has eight soccer fields, a research middle related to Arizona State College and is the one Barça Academy to have a staff in MLS Subsequent, the main youth league in america of America.