La Masia to Academia Sporting - the 10 most famous football youth academies in the world

Before Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and the rest of the world's elite players begin winning trophies, they've all got to start somewhere, with all three modern greats coming through some of the game's finest youth academies.

Messi was a product of Barcelona's much vaunted La Masia, Ronaldo came through the Academia Sporting in his native Portugal, and Neymar was fast-tracked to glory through Santos in South America.

But just which clubs can lay claim to having produced the finest number of players in their academy system? Goal takes a look over the record of some of the most respected birthing grounds in the last 30 years of footballing history.