Last Sunday five players from La 21, the Perica football school, started in the derby against Barça. A fact that hides an enormous daily work effort that does not stop and that seeks to ensure that this number continues to grow over time. The snapshot reflects right now that 28% of first team players (7 players) have come out of the quarry. A number that the sports director Fran Garagarza and the youth football coordinator Jaume Mila work every day to grow.
“For us it is the jewel in the crown. “He is a fundamental pillar of the club and requires a lot of work every day,” said Garagarza during the presentation. This model, started since the arrival of the sports director two years ago, but revitalized with the arrival of Jaume Mila last March, seeks to recruit and train players who are fundamentally from Catalonia.
“Our priority is the Catalan player, due to culture, philosophy and sense of belonging.”
“It is very important to socialize the territory. Our priority is the Catalan player, due to culture, philosophy and sense of belonging. Age is not determining. Yes, it is important in the process,” explained Garagarza, who understands that the objective should be “to shorten deadlines in the projection towards the first team because we need and believe. There is material, there are wickers and a sports structure. The club invests in it,” he explained.
To this end, Espanyol has a large number of specialized areas, many of them innovative, for the support and development of the player in all their growth phases, such as the area of mental performance, player care, laboratory, or residence and studies. . “We want to improve the current situation in two or three years, without differentiating the category. For that, an enormous demand is needed, getting the processes and aligned professionals right,” said Garagarza, for whom it is essential that the player “live football. Play or live for football. If we don’t get them to experience football we won’t take steps to increase the percentage. We are demanding, but there is no other way.”
“We want to improve the current situation in two or three years, without differentiating the category.”
Right now Espanyol has 204 Catalan players (163 from Barcelona), 16 from abroad in their youth teams. “These 16 have to be differential, if they are not going to be differential we don’t have to have outside players,” explained Mutriku’s. “We want players to adapt to the game model, with their own identity. So that the boys’ processes are simpler. What footballer do I want for Espanyol, a specific profile, how do I accompany the player so that he grows, how do I accompany him to take care of his health and then evaluate him to see what impact he has had. They are not six-month processes. It is a model, maintain it over time, make mistakes and repeat,” Jaume Mila developed.
Finally, the sports director explained that they have training agreements with several teams in Barcelona and that they are working to avoid leaks by “offering them a model, top-level professionals, assuring them that they will improve as people. With an emotional area of 5 people. Analysis, medical service,” he concluded.
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