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Best football academies: Benfica at the top - CIES Football Observatory

As every year, the CIES Football Observatory has identified the clubs having trained* the players currently active in 49 leagues around the world to establish a ranking of the clubs with the best academies. The 518th Weekly Post presents the top 100 according to a training index taking into account the number of players trained, the level of the clubs they played for last year and the official game minutes played over the same period. As last y…
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The Barça does not stop making talent. The ten players formed in the quarry that are in the first team have been added in recent weeks Dro, Jofre Torrents or Toni Fernández, who have debuted in LaLiga this season. La Masia’s good doing places it as the second best football academy in the world, only behind that of Benfica, according to data from the CIES. The study classifies the quarries according to the number of players formed, the level of t…

The CIES has classified the training centres of the whole world. The publication of this one was made today and the Paris Saint-Germain is the first French club to appear in it. The International Centre for Sport Studies (CIES) regularly publishes studies on sport and football. Each year, the entity ranks the best training centres in the world and this is done on Wednesday, October 22. The training clubs are "defined as the first teams in which …

This Wednesday, the Observatory of Football CIES published its latest study. It is about the training centres, in order to estimate the best performances given the development of young players in professional football. Paris Saint-Germain arrives in 19th place."As every year, the CIES Football Observatory has identified the clubs that have trained players currently active in 49 leagues around the world in order to establish a ranking of clubs wi…

The Academy of Valencia CF is the third in Spain with more players trained competing in professional football according to the Report n°518 of the CIES Football Observatory that analyzes the formation clubs from all over the world. Valencia CF has 38 players trained in the Academy VCF competing in the main leagues of the world according to this Report of the CIES, which on this occasion uses as main reference 49 leagues of different points of th…

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