Real Sociedad and Zubieta have always been a great player factory. Both those who reach the first team and reach the elite, and those who do not, always find a good place in professional or semi-professional football.
Today, the prestigious CIES Football Observatory rates the San Sebastian entity as the eighth best club in the world for producing footballers for the five major leagues, ahead of only Manchester City, Ajax and Bayern. Next to nothing.
CIES bases the ranking on the first club where the player plays at least three seasons between the ages of 15 and 21. Based on that, they give Real a score of 29.6 for a total of 24 players, where 16 are currently in the club. In fact, it is the leading club in terms of having the most players of this type in the squad, ahead of Athletic (13) and Barcelona (12).
Source: La Verdad
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