Edu Bayer for The New York Times
MADRID — It is not just the jerseys, the deep blue and the blood red, that make the players instantly recognizable as representatives of Barcelona’s fabled youth system.
It is the way they play, too, how they have been imbued with the soccer club’s style. It shows in the results this season: 30 games played, 30 games won, a scarcely probable 329 goals scored in a league largely consisting of neighborhood teams from Catalonia.
There is only one aspect in which this team can be marked as different from all the other Barcelona sides brimming with hopefuls who wear that famous jersey, who dream of following in the footsteps of Xavi Hernández and Gerard Piqué and Andrés Iniesta and all the rest.