The quarry of Real Madrid andThis is on everyone’s lips due to the fact that the availability of youth players in the first team is scarce. However, a study of CIES He questions that because this football observatory has conducted a study on the minutes teams are giving their youth players this season and Real Madrid is fourth with 36.3%.
The first of the five major leagues in Europe is the Athletic Club, with 68.9%, while Ukrainians from Dinamo Kiev (82.9%) have the highest proportion in absolute terms and Colombians from Envigado (67.8%) among non-European clubs.
Behind the Athletic is Olympique Lyonnais (45.6%) and Real Sociedad (45.4%) to complete the podium. Osasuna and Valencia are sixth and seventh, while the Barcelona It is ninth with 29.1%. Las Palmas closes the top 10, with 29%.
CIES Last October, it published a study on the number of youth players playing in one of the five major European leagues. According to this study, Real Madrid tops the ranking with 44 players spread across the five major leagues. Barcelona follows the classification with 40 players. The criteria followed by CIES are the same established by UEFA to classify youth footballers, that is, players who have been at a club for at least three seasons between the ages of 15 and 21.
Source: La Verdad
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