Best team to develop players

[Pennywise]

The university of Neuchàtel and Franche-Comtè have from France football confirmed that Real Madrid have developed 54 players from their academy who are professional footballers today.

Metz is actually 2nd with 29 players while Barca have 24.



Almería: Cobeño, Corona, Negredo, Pulido.
Atl. Madrid: Jurado, Mista.
Barcelona: Eto´o.
Betis: Fernando, Rivera, Zamora.
Deportivo: Riki
Espanyol: Casilla, Luis García, Valdo.
Getafe: Belenguer, De la Red, Granero, Sousa, Tena.
Mallorca: Valero, Dorado.
Murcia: Mejía
Osasuna: Corrales, Javi García, Juanfran, Portillo.
Racing: César Navas, Jordi López.
Real Madrid: Balboa, Casillas, Codina, Guti, Raúl, Soldado, Torres.
Recreativo: Guerrero.
Valencia: Cañizares, Mata, Mora.
Villarreal: Diego López.
Valladolid: Borja, Capdevila, Cifuentes, García Calvo, Marcos, Víctor.
Zaragoza: Pavón, Paredes.

Internationalt:
Liverpool: Arbeloa.
Inter: Cambiasso.
Ajax: Urzaiz.
Olympiakos: Raúl Bravo.
Mouscron: Palencia

[Podolski]

what about bojan, dos santos, puyol for barca? or did they join to late?
Kind of suprising tbh.

[Pennywise]

What about them? You mentioned four out of 24 now...

[Sven]

But don't Barce have most home grown players in there squad in la liga?

Certainly top 4-6 teams.

[Pennywise]

I'm not sure.

They have Valdez, Puyol, Xavi and Iniesta at least....while Dos Santos and Bojan may got there too late..?

Madrid have Casillas, Torres, Guti, Raul, Codina, Balboa and Soldado + a couple on loan to Getafe.

[Podolski]

It says:
Barcelona: Eto´o.

why aren't the rest named? what is that list meant to show

[Pennywise]

I think you misunderstand now. This is players Real Madrid have developed in their youth academy and almost all clubs in La Liga have players from Real Madrid.

Barcelona: Samuel Eto'o (who is developed in Real Madrid)

That list is just players Madrid have developed and where they're playing now.

[Mighty T.A.L.]

I see.

[Robinho4Ever]

It's the first time I know that Canizares is a product of Real Madrid's academy !!! That's nice !!

Many talented keepers are products of Real Madrid's academy (Cobeno, Casillas, Canizares, Codina, Diego Lopez ...........)

[lionel]

1. how much time did eto'o spend in madrid? or do they consider loans?

2. all of the midfielders in the Spain U17 that won the WC are barcelona youth players that in the next seasons are supposed to become famous... while I don't know how many players real madrid had in the team but non of the cracks was a real madrid player. (the big star - TEKO - is an atletico madrid player).

3. in terms of quality... are real madrid better than barcelona? (I mean players coming out of the youth department)

4. home players playing in barcelona: Messi (6 years in catalunya already), Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Bojan, Giovani(can be considered as he came from the youth team), valdez, jorquera.
6 starters compared to real's 3 (casillas, guti & raul).

[The Rule]

Originally Posted by lionel

4. home players playing in barcelona: Messi (6 years in catalunya already), Xavi, Iniesta, Puyol, Bojan, Giovani(can be considered as he came from the youth team), valdez, jorquera.
6 starters compared to real's 3 (casillas, guti & raul).

Eh, Bojan, Dos Santos and Jorquera aren't starters. So, 5 starters. Only 1 of whom(Messi) would make the Madrid 11.

[Pat Murphy]

I'm probably biased but I'd probably think Xavi, Iniesta and also Puyol could get into the Madrid starting XI although they wouldn't want to

Metz 2nd is suprising but Barcelona's generation cycle started about a year or 2 ago and many more youth players are going to start coming from Barcelona over the next few years.

It would be interesting to compare quality between the 2 youth academy's, it would definately be close.

[Robinho4Ever]

Originally Posted by lionel

2. all of the midfielders in the Spain U17 that won the WC are barcelona youth players that in the next seasons are supposed to become famous

I don't agree with you ....
Maybe you didn't hear about Gerardo Bruna...

Gerardo Bruna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[The Rule]

And he, thankfully, is a Liverpool now.

Puyol wouldn't make the Real team over Cannavaro. Xavi or Iniesta might possibly make the team over Guti. Would require a change of formation though.

[Mighty T.A.L.]

How many appearances did Arbeloa get for Real Madrid? None?