Juan Larios, another left-back from La Masia who reached the elite

The list of left-backs trained at La Masia and scattered around the world continues to grow. Juan Larios, an 18-year-old Sevillian born in Tomares, is the latest example. On Friday he made his Premier League debut with a Southampton shirt in a 1-0 loss against Aston Villa. He played the entire second half.

Barça signed the promising defender in 2016, when he was 12 years old. is derived from Sevillewhere he played between 2011 and 2016. As a Barça player he showed signs of his immense projection, always as a left-back, and at La Masia he made friends Gavi, also from Seville from Los Palacios, who arrived a year earlier in 2015, in his case in the past of Betis. They were both born in 2004.

as a cadet, Larios He is already competing in Barça’s Juvenil B and, despite a serious injury, Barça strongly believed in his chances to reach the first team and his first contract as a professional, when he turned 16 on January 12, 2020, he will be high. . But City of Manchester seduce her and decided to change the scene. After two seasons in the lower category of the English club, in the last days of the market he signed for Southampton, who paid 7 million euros for him. He is concentrated in the Spanish Under-19 team with the Barça players Ilias and Aleix Garrido, his former teammates in Barça base football, after being internaiconal with other categories within.

In addition to Jordi Alba and Alejandro Baldeboth in the current Barça squad, there are several left-backs trained at La Masia, sometimes transferred over the years, playing for European clubs such as Sergio Gomez (Manchester City), Alex Grimaldo (Benfica), Marc Cucurella (Chelsea), Alex Moreno (Bethys), John Miranda (Bethys), Jose Marsa (Sporting of Portugal), Arnau Sola (on loan from Almería to Murcia), Martin Villa (Andorra), Xavi Quintilla (Portuguese Santa Clara after playing for Villarreal and Norwich) o Brian Olive (Spanish).