Second Barça Academy in Mexico

Second Barça Academy in Mexico

Querétaro will the home for the new blaugrana centre for football

From the month of September, Mexico will have a second Barça Academy. The new centre will be in the city of Querétaro and follows the opening of the first Barça Academy in the country in January 2020 in Mexico City. Querétaro is some 200 kilometres north-east of the nation's capital  and is a city with a long footballing tradition. 

From 15 July a camp will take place at the academy as a way of attracting participants ahead of the month of September. Queretáro has held regular campuses since 2017 in partnership with local organisation Catalunya Sports and now it has been decided to take a step forward and create a permanent Barça Academy in the town. 

The students at the Barça Academy Querétaro will train on two excellent full size grass pitches at the Cumbres International School Queretaro.

27 permanent Barça Academy projects around the world

Barça Academy is a football school model for young boys and girls which is owned by FC Barcelona. It has as its main objective the desire to give all round training to its students. This model, exported around the world, is intended to extend the Barça brand and share its working philosophy and Club values with the rest of the world. 

The schools have their own model, based on the Barça methodology used from the youth teams to the first team: a creative, attacking style and the promotion of values such as respect, modesty, effort, ambition and team work with proven results. 

Currently, there FC Barcelona has 27 Barça Academy projects around the world. There are divided up into the Barça Escola Barcelona, the Barça Academy Pro which are managed by the Club both on and off the field with two sites in the US in Miami and New York; the Barça Residency Academy Arizona (US), which also caters for the players' academic needs and the 23 Barça Academy sites around the world. 

More than 80 clinics and 200 camps

The Barça Academy Clinics are training programmes for groups which allow you to feel like a Barça player and enjoy the exclusive opportunity to train at the FC Barcelona official facilities. This year more than 80 will take place. Barça also has a presence in more than 46 countries thanks to the camps which take place around the world to extend the Barça brand and share its working philosophy and Club values with the rest of the world. 

 

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