Big-5 Weekly Post n°72 - U20 players
The 72nd issue of the CIES Football Observatory Big-5 Weekly Post presents the data on minutes played since the start of the season by players born on or after 1.1.1994. U20 footballers played the most in France (26,337 minutes), while they played the least in Italy (13,992 minutes).
The U20 footballer who played the most league minutes so far is Matthias Ginter (Freiburg), followed by Saúl Ñíguez (Rayo Vallecano) and Luke Shaw (Southampton). Four other U20 footballers played for more than 2,000 minutes: Aymeric Laporte (Athletic Bilbao), Issiaga Sylla (Toulouse), Morgan Sanson (Montpellier) and Hakan Çalhano?lu (Hamburg).
The most fielded U20 player in Italy is Ibrahima Mbaye (Livorno). The tenth most employed U20 player was only fielded for 270 minutes in Italy. This figure is 1,115 in Germany, 1,028 in France, 790 in England and 437 in Spain.
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