On Wednesday, the Italian newspaper, Tuttosport, released a list of 100 players nominated for the 2022 Golden Boy award.See the full list below). The award elects the best under-21 player among European footballers. Among the candidates is only one Brazilian, right-back Yan Couto and former Curitiba, who belongs to Manchester City and played for Braga on loan from Portugal last season..
Manchester City’s Yan Couto played on loan at Braga last season – Photo: Getty Images
Among the top 100 under-21 players in Europe there are both unknown and already famous names, such as Camavingafrom real madrid Pedro, Ansu Fati, Jaffe And the Nico Gonzalezfrom Barcelona, and ectodermal And the Jude BellinghamFrom Borussia Dortmund.
The award has been given since 2003, and it has already had two Brazilian winners: Andersonfor Manchester United, in 2008, and Alexandre BatuMilan, in 2009.
Golden Boy winners since 2003:
- 2003: Van der Vaart
- 2004: Ronnie
- 2005: Messi
- 2006: Fabregas
- 2007: Aguero
- 2008: Anderson
- 2009: Alexandre Bateau
- 2010: Balotelli
- 2011: Gotze
- 2012: bait
- 2013: Pogba
- 2014: sterling
- 2015: Military
- 2016: Renato Sanchez
- 2017: Mbappe
- 2018: De Ligt
- 2019: Joao Felix
- 2020: Haaland
- 2021: Pedro
On behalf of Milan, Alexandre Pato was the last Brazilian to win the Golden Boy – Photo: AFP
Watch the 100 candidates for Golden Boy 2022:
- Karim David Adeyemi – Borussia Dortmund
- Felix Avena Gyan – Roma
- Lucien Agoume – Inter Milan
- Anouar Ait El Hajj – Anderlech
- Janis Antist – Spezia
- Alejandro Baldi – Barcelona
- Jude Bellingham – Borussia Dortmund
- Step Buick – Hajduk
- Eduardo Bove – Roma
- Jayden Braff – Borussia Dortmund
- Brian Bruby – RB Leipzig
- Eduardo Camavinga – Real Madrid
- Matteo Cancelleri – Verona
- Rayan Sharqi – Lyon
- Muhammed Ali Chu – Anjieh
- Mustafa Cisse – Atalanta
- Francisco Conceicao – Porto
- Yan Kotto – Manchester City
- Niganid Darami – Ajax
- Ammar Dedek – RB Salzburg
- Emad Diallo – Manchester United
- Diego Moreira – Benfica
- Jeremy Duco – Ren
- Radu Dragstein – Juventus
- Hugo Eketique – Reims
- Anthony Elanga – Manchester United
- Harvey Elliott – Liverpool
- Sebastiano Espotivo – Inter Milan
- Maxime Esteve – Montpellier
- Fabio Carvalho – Liverpool
- Fabio Silva – Wolverhampton
- Ansu Fati – Barcelona
- Jaffe – Barcelona
- Joe Gilhardt – Leeds
- Wilfried Gonto – Zurich
- Ryan Gravenbach – Bayern Munich
- Malo Gusto – Lyon
- Josko Gvardiol – RB Leipzig
- Henrique Araujo – Benfica
- Aaron Hickey – Bologna
- Piero Hincapie – Bayer Leverkusen
- Adam Hluzek – Bayer Leverkusen
- Ki Jana Hoover – Wolverhampton
- Alex Moreba – RB Leipzig
- Joelson Fernandez – Basel
- Isaac Bergmann Johansson – Copenhagen
- Nemanja Jovic – Partizan
- Arno Kalimundo – Lens
- Jacob Kaminsky – Wolfsburg
- Ansgar Knauf – Borussia Dortmund
- Kasper Kozlowski – Brighton
- Isaac Leggy – Night
- Castle of Lucipa – Lyon
- Noni Madwicki – PSV Eindhoven
- Elliot Matazzo – Monaco
- Nathanael Mpoko – Reims
- Fabio Meretti – Juventus
- Raul Moro – Lazio
- Youssouf Mukoko – Borussia Dortmund
- Younes Moussa – Valencia
- Jamal Musyala – Bayern Munich
- Cher N’Dour – Benfica
- Luka Nets – Borussia Monchengladbach
- Tanguy Kwasi Nyanzu – Bayern
- Nico Gonzalez – Barcelona
- Nico Williams – Bilbao Athletic
- Nuno Mendes – Paris Saint-Germain
- Becir Omeragic – Zurich
- Simon Pafundi – Udinese
- Matthias Palacios – Basel
- Paulo Bernardo – Benfica
- Pedro – Barcelona
- Yeremi Pino – Villarreal
- Devin Wrench – Ajax
- Gio Reina – Borussia Dortmund
- Fabian Reader – Young Boys
- Rodrigo Ribeiro – Sporting
- Luca Romero – Lazio
- Georginio Ratter – Hoffenheim
- Lazar Samargic – Udinese
- Sissi Sandra – Club Brugge
- Babi Matar Sar – Tottenham
- Joe Scully – Borussia Moenchengladbach
- Giorgio Scalvini – Atalanta
- Benjamin Sisko – RB Salzburg
- Brandon Sobe – Udinese
- Matthias Sule – Juventus
- Filip Stefanovic – Heerenveen
- Luka Susic – RB Salzburg
- Kamaluddin Suleimana – Rin
- Thomas Suslov – Groningen
- Jan Uwe Thielmann – Cologne
- Thiago Thomas – Stuttgart
- Malik Tillmann – Bayern Munich
- The fate of Odyoghi – Udinese
- Martin Vandevoordt – Genk
- Aster Franks – Wolfsburg
- Elie Wahy – Montpellier
- Ilya Zabarny – Dynamo Kyiv
- Nikola Zalosky – Roma
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