With
a tiny handful of teams scrambling to sign the world's best players, there is a growing gap between the few, like Barça, with enough money to compete at the highest level, and the masses below them.
Though the children probably didn't know the academic purpose, they were even given challenges in engineering and physics — competing to see which
team could build the highest tower out
of toothpicks and gumdrops, and constructing an aluminum - foil boat to be tested against the other
teams» vessels with
handfuls of tiny toy bears as passengers.