INIESTA CONFIDENT

Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta has said that he is extremely confident that the future of the club will be as bright as it is right now. Iniesta has said that one of the reasons that he predicts bright future for Barcelona is due to the current crop of youngsters at the academy. The Barcelona academy has always been well known for producing excellent talent. However, the age of Iniesta and Lionel Messi has proved to be a sensational one indeed. Even after all the success they have achieved in the last four seasons, a large part of the first team of Barcelona is comprised of the players from the youth system.

The new Barcelona manager Tito Vilanova also looks like a manager who will stand by this policy of looking towards the youth academy first before entering into the transfer market. Iniesta was once a product of the same the Barcelona youth academy alongside the likes of Cesc Fabregas and Lionel Messi. He was the player of the tournament at the Euro 2012, and is one of the favourites to lift the FIFA Ballon d’Or award this season. If Iniesta wins this award, then it would mean that a Barcelona youth teams player has won the award in four consecutive seasons.

“The club is guaranteed its future in different positions. The most important thing for the younger players is for them to feel comfortable with the senior players. The players coming up should feel happy that they are joining a group of players who were once in the same situation that they are in now. What matters most is that you have to be confident in yourself, know that you are going to have to get through some difficult situations where you’ll need to have faith in what you can do,” said Iniesta.