Inside La Masia: How Barcelona's future stars live Barcelona What are the secrets to the academy's success?

Barcelona's star-studded list of graduates from La Masia is longer than most clubs can boast from their youth academies.

Lionel Messi, Carles Puyol, Andres Iniesta, Xavi, Pep Guardiola, Sergio Busquets and so many more have come through to represent the Catalan club and lead them to great success.

It's a real football school, one that's recognised for its excellence all over the planet and even Forbes magazine has recognised it as the best in the world.

But La Masia is more than just a place where youngsters learn to play football.

It's a home where people are developed and it's a home for a number of kids whose families live a fair distance away.

The club have reformed their residence, which houses 84 athletes.

"It used to be like a hospital," they've said.

Now you walk through that same door, but feel a very different warmer and football-centred atmosphere.

Inside, you find a huge photo of Messi, Iniesta and Xavi from when they were the top three players in the running for the 2010 Ballon d'Or.

The picture's placement is no mistake.

The club say it's there as evidence of how far hard work can take you and anyone who comes in sees that before anything else.

On the floor of the hallway there's artificial grass and there are photos of the 84 players who live in La Masia as well.

Posters with buzzwords like effort, teamwork, ambition, humility and respect are all visible.

"Together we're strong," reads a sign that each kid sees when they leave their room.

Academy players get a chance in the first team at the Camp Nou and they want their youngsters to know that.

That's why there's another picture hanging of the XI who played against Levante in 2012 - all of whom were academy graduates.

Good grades are essential and the players have to have a knowledge of finance, communication, marketing or management, because they're all skills elite athletes need.

The words are chosen with care too.

There's talk of creating and not destroying, and recovering the ball rather than stealing it.

Rivals are described as opponents instead of enemies and words like battle, war and fight are nowhere to be seen.

Instead, the expressions used highlight the values of the sport in order to avoid selfishness and to instead breed empathy.

At 23:00, WiFi is turned off and the players go to sleep and nobody is ever allowed to ignore the basic rules of coexistence.