What is the Real Madrid youth system like? How many teams are there? Thank you!

La Fabrica, the place where successive generations of Real Madrid's youth training elite such as the Real Madrid Five Eagles grew up, reached its zenith in the 1980 Copa del Rey final when Real Madrid played Castilla. It was considered the best youth camp in Spain and the world until recent years when it was eclipsed by the aura of La Masia. While people send songs of praise to the Barcelona youth system, they should not assume that the other side has done anything wrong; on the contrary, the current white youth camp is still functioning well.

La Fabrica is headquartered in Valdebebas, which has the biggest and best sports infrastructure in Madrid and the world. On its 1.2 million square meters of land (roughly three times the size of the Vatican), the most prominent are the 10 soccer fields, which alternate between natural and artificial turf (a similar situation to the Bernabeu). Each pitch has a grandstand, and in the center of them is the 6,000-seat Alfredo D'Aguilera Stadium. Di? Stefano Stadium. At the center of all the stadiums in Soccer City, there is a huge T-shaped building. Apart from the area dedicated to the first team, the head of the T-shaped building is the beating heart of the La Fabricaine de Meringue. It houses the locker rooms of all 13 ladder teams, with a locker for each youth player, a large gym, several meeting rooms and classrooms for discussing tactics, a greenhouse planted with natural turf, technical offices for the lower ladder teams (including those of Ramón Martínez, the head of youth training, and Castilla's president, Alberto Giráldez) The state-of-the-art medical laboratory TEC Real Madrid, the cafeteria restaurant, the laundry, and a number of other facilities that make the daily lives of the players, coaches, trainers, managers and families who live here easier.

The interior of La Fabrica is divided into three zones: the first is for the benjamines, alevines, infantiles and cadetes, which are the underage players; the second is for the youth teams (juveniles), Real Madrid's C-team, and the Castilla; and the third, where the referees and the visiting locker rooms are located, is far from the above two zones . In this way, whoever, from Benjamin to the first team players and staff, wants to enter this area, must enter with identification. No one from outside can enter this area unless you are a Real Madrid player. Visiting players, local media and fans are not allowed to enter the above area, it is a standard that must be adhered to.