The effect of the U21 rule »Superliga has three young players in the top 20 in Europe at two age categories!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 20:22 / Updated Wednesday, April 16, 2025 20:26
According to the analysis published by the statisticians from Cies Football Observatory, David Miculescu (Fcsb) and Carlos Mora (Craiova University) took a place in the first 20 players born in 2001 with the most matches played from the beginning. And Andrei Borza He is also leading in the category of footballers born in 2005.
Swiss specialists have taken into account All young people in European football who came to the world at the earliest in 2001 and who have gathered the most presence on the senior team in official matches until April 14. The mentioned source made up 20 rankings for seven categories, starting with 2001 and ending with 2007 or later.
The presence of three representatives from Romanian football and who still evolve in the internal championship is a beneficial consequence of the rule to oblige clubs to always have at least one U21 player in the field. The groups noted by such CIES are the FCSB champion, occupying the third place Craiova and Rapid Bucharest.
Miculescu and Carlos Mora, on #17 and #20 in the 2001 category
In section 2001, David Miculescu is on the 17th position. His striker Fcsb It has 258 matches played from the age of 16.4 years (annual average 50.9)! The leader is Rodrygo (real madrid), with 379 parties (debut at 16.8 years and average 34.1! And three places below is another “ambassador” of the Superligion: Carlos Mora (Craiova University), with 253 presence (average 49, debut at 18.9 years).
Miculescu and Mora, in Craiova University – FCSB, Stage #4 of the play -off/ photo: Cristi Preda (GSP)
The podium of the Hierarchy of the Swiss is completed by Takefusa Kubo (Real Sociedad), with 326 parties (average annually and 15.9 years in debut), and Jason Knight (Bristol City), with 303 parties (average 53.2 matches/year and onset at 18.5 years).
Interestingly, under Miculescu there are names such as Santiago Gimenez (Milan), with 256 games (average 34.1, debut at 16.3 years). Then Ves Noah Chilvers (Ross County), with 254 meles (annual average of 41.6 and start at 18).
Borza is the 11th, between the Turks Arda Guler and Kenan Yildiz!
The other age category at which we have a player in the study of Cies Football Observatory is those with 2005 in the identity card. Even higher than Miculescu. It's about Andrei Borza.
Andrei Borza Photo: Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
59.7It is the annual average of the matches that Lamine Yamal has played from its debut in Barcelona produced at the age of 15.8. Reached 117 in total. And his colleague Pau Cubarsi has an average of 59 (93 in total).
The left defender from Rapid has 116 matches (on average 39.3 / year), debuting at 16.5 years. and is in the 11th place. Immediately behind the Real Madrid star, Arda Guler, (117), an annual average of 32 parties (the same, debutant at 16.5 years).
Following Borza are Kenan Yildiz (Juventus), another Turkish international, with 111 matches (annual average of 47.8, debut at 17.6 years). Leader is Vitor Roque (Barcelona), with 155 matches (average of 44.3, debut at 16.6 years).
Then Vin Antonio Nusa (RB Leipzig, 147 appearances and average 37.9) and Malick Fofana, FCSB's former opponent in the Europa Reague finals. The Lyonese has 142 parties played from the debut produced at the age of 17.3 (average 51.8/year). Desire two (PSG) is on 4, with 141 games.
