Youth System
FC Basel is known throughout Switzerland for having a good youth system. It has produced Swiss internationals such as Philipp Degen, Alexander Frei and Marco Streller. Also, in more recent times, young talents like the Ecuadorian international youngster Felipe Caicedo, Croatian Ivan Rakitić, Serbian Zdravko Kuzmanović and the Swiss Yann Sommer along with Eren Derdiyok have risen through the ranks there. Some successful players who have come through the Basel youth system are:
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