In recent years, Flamengo has not only established itself as one of the largest and most important teams in all of Brazil, but has also managed to build, based on a very well-worked training project, one of the most important and profitable quarries. from the entire American continent.
The Swiss entity specialized in sports studies, the CIES Football Observatory, recently published a report on the most profitable quarries in the entire world and, surprisingly, Mengão‘s is the thirteenth in the general ranking and the best of all in the ranking of football teams. out of Europe.
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Flamengo leads the ranking of South Americans with the most profitable quarry, River Plate follows closely
This study, which has been carried out taking data from the sales of the teams’ youth players between 2014 and 2023, only takes into consideration footballers who have spent at least three years between the age of 15 and 21 in their respective youth teams. .
In the ranking of South American teams, Flamengo is the undisputed leader in this area.
The Rio team made a total of 27 sales between these years, generating an economic return of 66 million euros between 2014 and 2018 and another of 162 million euros between 2019 and 2023.
With these data, it is implied that Mengão received around 228 million euros in transfers from youth players in these 10 years, but the total figure could be lower due to inflation. In general, this gives Flamengo a winning percentage of 71%, thus leading the ranking.
A little further down and with equally impressive data appears the Argentine club River Plate. Núñez’s team generated close to 223 million euros in homegrown sales in the same period of time, all with a profit percentage of 64%. Palmeiras completes the TOP-3 with 171 million euros of profit.
