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cantera

quarry

noun kahn-TEH-rah Rare

Also means

talent pool

Usage Note

Cantera literally means a stone quarry, but in sport — especially football — it is widely used to mean a club's youth academy or the pool of homegrown talent: jugadores de la cantera are players raised through the club's own system. This metaphorical use is so common in sports journalism that many learners encounter it before the literal sense.

Examples

"El club tiene una cantera de jóvenes talentos."

Natural Translation

The club has a pool of young talent.

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