There are 15 municipalities with teams in LaLiga Santander. But there are many more that are represented in the competition. In total, 160 towns can boast of having given birth to at least one of the three hundreds of Spanish players participating in the top division of the national football. Birthdays are distributed throughout the Spanish territory, although abound around the cities with more teams of LaLiga. Are there any of your people?
Cataluña (with 47 players native), Basque Country (46), Madrid (39), Andalusia (37) and the Valencian Community (22) are the five Autonomous Communities that most players contribute this season in LaLiga Santander. The influence of Athletic Bilbao, with the policy of using only players of basque in your template, and of the Royal Society, is central to the Basque Country is located in the second position. 31 of the 46 professionals LaLigaSantander of that Community play in those two clubs (21 in the club from bilbao, 10 in the team of San Sebastian). The phenomenon is given, in all forms, at all levels of football vasco. With 61.538 licenses (from amateurs to professionals, both male and female) of a population of 2.194.158 people, in the Basque Country, haggle, make goals, retrieve balls, make dummy runs… get one of every 35 people! Is the ratio of chips per inhabitant highest in Spain.
analyzing the data by cities, Madrid and Barcelona, the two most populated, make a noticeable difference. The capital, with 31, is the city that more players brings the highest professional category. In the Netspor city of Madrid (where it is 31 out of 39 of the total community), football is much more concentrated than in Barcelona (13 players from the capital, on the 47 of Catalonia). 15, the half, play in some team in madrid (five in the Lightning, four at Real Madrid, three in the Athletic, two in Getafe and one in the Leganés). Something similar happens in Barcelona, where seven of the 13 professional play in a Catalan team (of them, five at Espanyol and two on the boat).
Behind the two big cities, Pamplona takes out her breast and, with nine players, the third city that most footballers brings to LaLiga Santander in this course. If we divide this number by your population, the capital of navarre is located in the first place with a difference. Pulls out a professional player for every 22.598 inhabitants. In this list, Madrid and Barcelona do not appear among the first ten cities. This case shows, once again, the influence of the Athletic of Bilbao in the north: four of the nine people of pamplona play there (Muniain, Raul Garcia, San Jose, and Sancet). The other five are: Arbilla (Eibar), Iraizoz (Girona), Eraso (san jose), Mikel Merino (Real Sociedad) and Santamaría (Huesca).
The city covered in this analysis of data is Talavera de la Reina, which is one of the 17 municipalities that have three or more players in LaLiga Santander. Of those 17, it is, by far, the smallest (83.303 inhabitants) and that makes it the third to assess the amount of players per capita (one each 27.768). Oscar and Arnáiz, of Leganés, and Trigueros, Villarreal, are the three talabricenses in this edition of the maximum category. The three are news standing in the local newspaper The Voice of Talavera. This year, wild asparagus, one of the outstanding players of Villarreal opened a campus with his name in his hometown.
After Madrid, Barcelona and Pamplona, the localities with more stars of LaLiga are: San Sebastian (7), Bilbao (6), Valencia (6), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (5), Malaga (5), Sevilla (5), Sabadell (4), Vitoria (4), Vigo (4), Murcia (4), Barakaldo (3), A Coruña (3) and Palma de Mallorca (3).
And you? Have you already found out who represents you in the highest category of Spanish football?
