Youth Sports Academy La Masia is a youth sports academy in Barcelona,
Spain. The school mixes football training with
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academic lessons and creative / intelligent
subjects, like art and music. Footballers with a lot
of talent / good looks have studied there, like
Lionel Messi and Gerard Piqué, but people there
say that it isn't a 3'fame / style school. The school
wants to help its students to be skilful / egotistical
and 'lucky / independent. Students there usually
have their feet on the ground and don't have big
'egos / strengths. It isn't a large school and people
feel ʼlucky / courageous if they can study there.