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Barca's approach to young players is admirable but incorrect

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Barcelona are renowned for their development of young players.
Barcelona are renowned for their development of young players.

FC Barcelona have become renowned for their outstanding youth development, but Junaid Benjamin questions whether that really is the case.

Football is a sport that has become notorious for chewing young players up before spitting them back into the real world, destroying their dreams of one day playing at the highest levels. Sometimes they are deemed to just not be good enough to earn a spot in the club's first team while on other occasions it could be due to the club's mishandling of the starlets.  

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