>Athletic Bilbao uses exclusively Basque players and has never

>>65083144
they are quite liberal who is a basque and not tho
dont buy all the bs they propagand, at the end they arent much better than any other professional sports club

>>65083231
>better
>implying not signing players somehow makes a club better

it's very unique anf somehow they do it so well. I don't know if anyone can replicate it

>>65083472
I replicated my DNA in your momma's snatch.

doubt it would work anywhere else other than spain because of strong regional identity

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>haven't won a trophy since the mid 80's

sounds like the spurs of unemployment land

The whole city is very football-obsessed, it's how they keep up with the recruiting.

>you now remember Joseba Etxeberría

Chivas from Mexico only has Mexican players (theyve taken some liberties) and never been relegated. Although this season it is a real possibility that they could go down

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>>65083577
>city
they can be from anywhere in these regions

>>65083621
I mean the city of Bilbao, not the whole Basque Country.

>>65083583
compare Mexico with this tiny bit of land >>65083621

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>>65083518
but they won one this year

>inb4 supercopa is a meme

>>65083144
racist club

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>the people of Bilbao

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>>65083654
how are they racist senpai?

>muh culture
nah, that's just plain racism

>>65083660
>>65083678
Literally born in Bilbao and his name is Iñaki, he's as Basque as it gets

>>65083231
No they aren't

You either have to:

a) Be from the Basque country
b) If you have Basque ancestry you can also be permitted, like that one Venezuelan player

Virtually all of their players are 100% Basque who were born in raised in BC. Then that one black player Inaki Williams was also born there. That doesn't seem like a liberal interpretation to me.

Also, the fact that they're able to remain competitive while solely consisting of players that they train and produce themselves is exceptional in this era where money runs everything and buying foreign players is the way to do things. Implement the same policy at the other 'big clubs' and see how long they remain being the elite.

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>>65083648
Chivas and Bilbao have a few things in common

>>65083695
that's why I asked, if they let a black player in and consider him a fellow Basque, how are they racists?
>racism
>a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

>>65083757
why is Arda Turan in the front?

>>65083768
racism has a very different definition in this day and age

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Athletic also has a good anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYc5tQ85Ps8

>>65083144
>or is it just because the region is good?

is it good, though? more like consistently average.

>>65083815
then, in which way would you say they are racists? Against Spaniards?

>>65083144
>Would training only local players work for other clubs as well?
Well, it would be great for South American football if all Europeans clubs did this. We would actually have great leagues.

>>65083842
They are a strong team. Going to San Mamés is one of the few challenges Barça and Madrid always face in La Liga

>>65083768
Gringos are still buttblasted that the meheecans from chivas usa told them to fuck of from the team if they had no latin american in them.

I think the whole idea was bound to fail from the beginning, as usa is fucking pc land, and everybody has to love everybody. I mean, can you imagine a based team from alabama that only accepts 'bama boys?
>inb4 liberals cry muh racism

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>>65083144
>and has never been relegated from La Liga
They've been close a few times, really close. They've been doing pretty good these last 5 years though.

>tfw no north american sports franchises adopt Athletic Bilbo strategy

It would be a good solution for Nordiques du Québec, for example

>>65083893

Not to mention all the basques that aren't playing in Bibao.

Plenty of Basques in Osasuna and Real Sociedad, and bigger clubs like XabiAlonso, Javi Martinez, LLorente, Ruffier, I probably forget some

It's because they steal the best young players from Osasuna and Real Sociedad

>>65083950
Ander Herrera too

>>65083897

The reason Chivas USA failed is because Americans don't want to support a team called Chivas USA. Sounds way too spic. The league was looking for every excuse to fold the franchise.

>>65083951
And Eibar?

>>65083897
I'm just so grateful I'm not American, seeing your media, your internet, your PC, how people get so offended... I'm just glad I don't live in a multi-racial country and I don't have to put up with all that shit.

>>65083951
*It's because them and Real Soc. steal the best young players from Osasuna, Eibar and the likes.
FTFY

>>65083982
Eibar were nothing a few years ago, nothing to steal from them

>>65083982

Eibar was a literally who team until a couple of seasons ago

They did get a young David Silva and Xabi Alonso on loan though

>>65084022
Eibar has always been a consistent 2º division team except for a few years they slipped to 2º division B.
For teams with lower economic power poaching on second division players is a main survival tactic.

>>65083815
Nationalist fits more than racist. Just like with Shitvas.

>>65084094
Why are whites so triggered by political correctness?

>>65083983

yeah you just fight among yourselves while your economy goes to shit

>>65083933
literally impossible with commie NA leagues

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>>65084114
better than putting up with pc bullshit. I'm a Catalan independentist anyway, so the fight among ourselves is kind of my job

>>65083977
Well, to start Chivas Usa wante to create an identity within the pocho community of LA, but what they did not have in mind was the fact that second generation are mostly interested in chicano shit like the raiders and copying nigger culture. It was never going to work wtih fucking pochos.

>>65084234

>Catalan independentist

oh god, the most deluded people in europe

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should i bandwagon this team?

thanks m8s

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>>65084421

>>65084421
I thought that was fans of English Football

B I X E N T E

L I Z A R A Z U

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>>65083144
GORA JULEN

>>65084461

Basque are glorious Celts so if you have any Celt blood it isn't technically bandwagoning since Basque soil is >our soil

If you are a dirty Anglo then don't even reply to my post.

>>65084837
>basques
>celts

fucking americans jesus christ

>>65084837
do you pronounce "Celt" as "Kelt" or as "Selt"? And "Celtic"?

also

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_Basques

>>65084837
Basques aren't celts. Basques are the only people in Iberian peninsula who survived to romans.

>>65084903
>>65084952

Google it you fucking poor ass Indians. I'm not going to waste my time explaining genetic groups to you jungle fucks

>>65084998

You're an idiot. The only Spanish people who have a clam to being Celtic are the Galicians and even then that's dubious.

>>65084998
They're part of their own genetic group you mong, they've literally been inbreeding for centuries without outside contact until the romans attacked them.

>>65085033

Google it, Mahmoud.

>>65085050
actually, they are genetically very close to the rest of iberia. what they have conserved from pre-roman times is the language

>>65083897
>>65083977
>chivas usa

I always thought this team was sponsored by Chivas Regal, sorta like the New York Red Bulls

>>65085145
Nah, they aren't. The rest of Iberia is literally a mix of moors, iberians, goths, etc.
Basques were never conquered so they didn't really mix with the rest of the iberian population, the moors and the rest of the invaders never made it there thanks to the scarped mountain terrain.

>>65083144
Depends a lot on the training for youth development.
By age 6 to 12 you are learning most of your motor movement skill set - and I figure also spatial awareness. So, by then you must not be focusing any little time to anything else BUT enclosed space futsal. Also, if possible, you must try to be used in differential level situations - Like Zico, Ronaldinho and Neymar that often played and learned with elder family, be they 4 older future player brothers, an early retired medium level brother, or a early retired medium level career obsessed father - respectively.
Then by age 12-17 you start learning to speed up your game and read the field. That's when you slowly build your physique as well.
By the early adulthood, you need to learn most of the tactical part and refine all your skillset into being a functional player.

If you have the right culture and a full input of children into that system - be by not seeing another viable carrer option, be by being a good system with good results, or just a regional obsesion... then maybe you can pull that off.

ETA ETA ETA

PUTA SUSAETA

PUTA ETA

PUTA SUSAETA

memes aside, it´s kind of impressive that they are able to make a top 10 squad only using players from their local autonomus community

>>65084949

Keltic people; Seltic basketball team.

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>>65083144
>how you want dem bombs fám

>>65086299
IRA vs ETA, who wins?

>>65086897
ira

>>65083839
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok1iEMcAFXY
based

>>65086897
IRAETA sounds like a basque surname

>>65087908
xD

>>65083144

SAINT MEMES

Good footballers often come from areas of huge football fanatasicm. In my country id say most of our best players have historically come from the north east and the north west. Maybe a few Midlands. I'd be happy if my club did it

Could get the next shearer.

>>65083231
You're an absolute bullshitter look at their ducking squad it's all people born in Basque country or people with Basque heritage

Bayern could probably put quite a good Bavarian only squad out. I just can't think of a LB, goalie and striker.

>>65086897
IRA easily, they buttblasted the UK which has a way better army than Spain and the ETA doesn't do shit

>>65083660
Based Iñaki

>>65083144

>Athletic Bilbao uses exclusively Basque players

not strictly true actually, in recent years they have loosened that restriction somewhat and now will use plays with 'basque heritage' much like the Irish and Welsh football team being mostly composed of english players

>>65092090

>they buttblasted the UK

If they 'buttblasted' the UK how come they lost? Losing doesn't seem very buttblastery to me lad.

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>>65083621
> Eukal Herria: 20.000 km2
> Rosario, Santa Fe 178 km2

wow, those fucking cat-eaters are fucking based

>>65094526
Euskal Herria is more populous than Rosario

how do you say the word basque

Is it bah-skay
Or bask (as in basket)
Or bahsk (with an ah sound)

>>65094526
could you give me a team made up of the best players born in Rosario? (active players)

>>65094795
the third one

I support Bilbao :)

>>65084421
most deluded and insufferable cunts of Europe, agreed. Met this girl at a party:

>me: so, where are you from?
>her: I'm Catalan
>me: so, you're from Spain
>meant nothing by it, didn't mean to trigger her
>she throws a tantrum Blah blahd blah I'M FROM CATALONIA DURRRR, yells at me loudly
>thinking fuck her
>me: but legally you are a Spaniard, with a Spanish citizenship, with a Spanish passport supporting a sport team playing in a Spanish league, no?
>she leaves in a rage
>host of party said he didn't really want her there anyway, I did a great job

>>65094969
So you were shithead and therefore she was a cunt?

Ok buddy.

>>65083695
>he's as Basque as it gets
>parents both from Africa
I think it gets a bit more Basque

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>>65094969

>he didn't get his dick wet because of political autism

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>>65095041

this man is "European"

>>65092416
>they lost

loving this meme

>>65094801

> Nahuel Guzman
> Ezequiel Garay
> Mateo Musacchio
> Santiago Vergini
> Cristian Ansaldi
> Federico Cartabia
> Guido Vadala
> Damian Escudero
> Nahuel Leiva
> Ever Banega
> Ezequiel Lavezzi
> Angel Correa
> Mauro Icardi
> Lionel Messi
> Angel Di Maria

> Marcelo Bielsa/Gerardo Martino

>>65094969
spotted the autist

That sounds like the early days of the Football here when the clubs only accepted white local boys.

>>65083144
Barcelona could make it work. They probably wouldn't be the force that they currently are but I could see them being quite prolific in Spain and possibly the Europa League as well

>>65083977
The translated ''LA Rams'' name would have been way better. but wait LA now has a Rams anyway.

There are no such thing as "good regions", stuff like this comes down to the FAs, coaching and infrastructure.

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>>65095977
It could be a decent team, nowhere near the team it is now. Barcelona could do it with Catalan speaking territories

>>65096023
Yeah just look at the recent call ups for the Catalonia national team. Could be quite a decent squad https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia_national_football_team

>>65083714
>The club is known for its policy of recruiting only players from the greater Basque Country [...] This policy, which for many years applied both to signings from other clubs and to youngsters admitted to the club's academy, has in recent years become more flexible, so that players whose career developed in the youth system of other clubs in the region are now acceptable, irrespective of their country of birth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Athletic_Bilbao_players#cite_note-athletic-club6-2

>>65095068
>>65095068
and "aged 24"

>>65095556
holy

>>65094969
kek

>>65094969

that sounds very familiar

those assholes just don't realise that nobody from other countries gives a shit about their special snowflake region