Seixal, Portugal

The view from any office at Benfica’s practice facility here is of full-size, carefully manicured soccer fields in all directions. The club adds more of them any time it gets the chance, as if it were building a golf course one hole at a time.

But staring out at an expanse of 10 pitches here, the director of Benfica’s youth academy shakes his head. It’s still not enough.

“To be honest, we are struggling,” said Pedro Marques.

This is what happens when 10 different teams, from promising preteens to the top side in the Portuguese pros, need space to train every day. It’s also what happens when your country is one of the best pound-for-pound producers of soccer talent in the world.