“Flick has done actual magic”

Jordi Ferrón is a La Masia graduate who left the club in the early 2000s to play for Rayo Vallecano and Real Zaragoza. He has been the manager of Kobe’s women’s football team in Japan, an adventure he has decided to end in order to be with his family back home. In a recent interview with Flashscore, Ferrón spoke about his experience at La Masia and also about the current Barcelona side, on route to the La Liga title after a brilliant El Clásico win.

I’ve said it from the start; I think what Flick has done is a miracle. It’s a miracle. What Flick has done is magic”, says and ecstatic Ferrón. “Now we are used to it, but this Barcelona is competing, and defeating, a Madrid full of Galácticos, and I think it’s magic. It’s magic”. Jordi Ferrón speaks very highly of Flick’s work, “The work Flick has done has been incredible from the start. When I started watching the preseason games, right after I arrived, Barça was facing a huge financial problem and had a more kids from Barça B. And you saw them competing in the first games and I thought, “What’s this?” How did this man manage to motivate and get the players to believe in him the way they do? A tremendous job by Flick. A tremendous job. I think it was the gamble Barcelona needed.”

About his years in La Masía, the former player explains that “as a child in La Masía, as a youth footballer, as a youth player, you obviously grow up with different values ​​than at other clubs. They try to instill respect in you, and you have very good coaches, very good trainers”, and Ferrón analyzes Barça’s academy nowadays, “I think that’s been improving a lot more and more. I remember back then that La Masía was a benchmark and a way of life, including the residence, which attracted many more players. Many players in youth football chose to come to Barcelona because they were raised at La Masía, where they were monitored and looked after very well.”Barcelona needed. To go with a surefire coach. But I don’t think anyone thought or imagined it would turn out so well.