The best home grown talent of each club

[Excape Goat]

Who do you consider? They must also play some years for their club and became an icon for their clubs. We should not consider players who left the club early and never did anything. Why? I don't want this to be a list of great players and where they spent their junior football. We can just run down the top 100 players in the world and their junior rank. I don't think Baggio, Zidane or Maradona did much for their mother club(Note: Maradona was a product of Argentinos Juniors)


Brazil
Santos: Pele
EPL
Man Utd: George Best
La Liga
Real Madrid: Raul or Butragueño
Barcelona: Someday it will be Messi.
Serie A
Roma: Totti
AC Milan: Maldini or Baresi or Rivera. Rivera is not a home grown player.
Inter Milan: Mazzola???
Juventus: Del Piero???
Bundesliga
Bayern Munich: Beckenbauer

[Perú FC]

Perú

Universitario: Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández

[Dr. Know]

I don't think Baggio, Zidane or Maradona did much for their mother club(Note: Maradona was a product of Argentinos Juniors)


Maradona had scored 116 goals for Argentinos Juniors by the time he was 21. How is that not doing much for them?

[BandaSangre]

Argentina

Angel Labruna

Club: River Plate (1939-1959)

AFA Tournaments: 1941 1942 1945 1947 1952 1953 1955 1956 1957

Reinaldo Merlo

Club: River Plate (1969-1983)

Nacional 1975
Nacional 1977
Nacional 1979

Metropolitano 1975
Metropolitano 1979
Metropolitano 1980

Leonardo Astrada

Club: River Plate (1989-2003)

Primera Division 1989/1990

Apertura 1991
Apertura 1993
Apertura 1994
Apertura 1996
Apertura 1997
Apertura 1999

Clausura 1997
Clausura 2002
Clausura 2003

Libertadores 1996

Supercopa Sudamericana 1997

Ricardo Bochini

Club: Independiente (1972-1991)

Nacional 1977
Nacional 1978

Metropolitano 1983

Primera Division 1988/1989

Libertadores 1973
Libertadores 1974
Libertadores 1975
Libertadores 1984

Interamericana 1973
Interamericana 1974
Interamericana 1976

Intercontinental 1973
Intercontinental 1974

[Grinners89]

LIVERPOOL
Gerrard and Carragher...not bad ey?

[The_ChelseaSupporter]

For Chelsea it has to be John Terry.
As far as my plasticity knows, he's homegrown.

[Cassano]

Juventus: Del Piero???


Del Piero was not brought through the Juventus youth system, he went through the Padova youth system and then was bought by Juve.

You can make a case that Roberto Bettega was their best ever homegrown talent.

[Excape Goat]

Maradona had scored 116 goals for Argentinos Juniors by the time he was 21. How is that not doing much for them?


Sorry, I was unaware of hus number. I got confused becuase Maradona associated himself with Boca Juniors.

[ManchesterUtdFanatic]

These are not all home grown players, but they've been with a certain club for a while.

A.C. Milan: Paolo Maldini or Franco Baresi

Manchester United: Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes, Sir Bobby Charlton

Real Madrid: Alfredo Di Stefano

Ajax: Johan Cruijff

Pele of course for Santos and Diego Maradona for Napoli , even though he was only there for 6 years, he led them to two Serie A titles, Copa Italia and a UEFA Cup.

[Dr. Know]

Sorry, I was unaware of hus number. I got confused becuase Maradona associated himself with Boca Juniors.

Yes since he is a hardcore Boca fan and he won a league title with Boca which is something he never did with Argentinos Jr's. But he spent more time at Argentinos and scored more goals for them.

[celito]

Flamengo - Zico