CA Osasuna cantera
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| Full name | Club Atlético Osasuna |
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| Ground |
Tajonar Facilities, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain |
| Capacity | 4,000 |
| Chairman | Luis Sabalza |
| Coach | David García |
| League | División de Honor |
| 201516 | División de Honor, Gr. 2, 4th |
| Website | Club home page |
The cantera (quarry) of Spanish professional football club CA Osasuna is the organisation's youth academy, developing players from childhood through to the integration of the best prospects into the adult teams.
The final category within the youth structure is the Juvenil A (Basque: Gazteak A) under-18/19 team which represents the club in national competition. The successful graduates then usually move to the club's affiliated team for younger players, CD Iruña, or to the reserve team, Osasuna B which are also considered part of the cantera due to being stages in progression towards the senior team, albeit competing in the adult league system.
The academy is based at the club training complex, Tajonar, which is often the name used informally to refer to the system itself.
The top football clubs in the Spanish leagues generally place great importance in developing their cantera to promote the players from within or sell to other clubs as a source of revenue, and Osasuna is no exception. Their youth recruitment network is focused around their home region of Navarre and there are collaboration agreements in place with the small clubs in the region.
Navarre has a population of just 640,000, a small catchment zone for an elite football club, and additionally Osasuna faces a battle for some of the region’s talented young players due to the presence of Athletic Bilbao, whose Basque-only player recruitment policy includes Navarre in its definition. They have an affiliate team (UDC Txantrea) in Pamplona, and several promising players who might otherwise have been expected to join Osasuna, the closest major club to their home towns (such as Iraizoz, Gurpegui, Llorente, San José and Muniain) were recruited by Athletic instead.
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