Italian newspaper Tuttosport today revealed the nominations for the coveted Golden Boy award. The Golden Boy is an award that is gi...
Italian newspaper
Tuttosport today revealed the nominations for the coveted Golden Boy award.
The Golden Boy is an award that is given by sports journalists to a young football playing in Europe perceived to have been the most impressive during a calendar year (two halves to two seasons).
All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation's top tier.
All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation's top tier.
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| The List of Nominees For The Golden Boy Award Has Just Been Revealed |
Founded in 2003, 40
footballers under the age of 21 and registered in Europe are included in a
vote which asks members of the public to pick their winner.
Past winners include the likes of Paul Pogba, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi and the previous year’s winner Anthony Martial.
Past winners include the likes of Paul Pogba, Sergio Aguero, Lionel Messi and the previous year’s winner Anthony Martial.
This year, the recently
revealed list shows some household names in the footballing world and fans of
the Super Eagles should be proud to see two of their very own being nominated
as well.
Alex Iwobi of Arsenal
and Kelechi Iheanacho of Man City have both been nominated for the 2016 Golden
Boy Award.
The two players both had a successful climax in the previous season and have both started the season with fire in their boots cementing their places as first team regulars.
It is also worthy to note this would not be Iheanacho’s first nomination after losing out to last year’s winner Anthony Martial.
The two players both had a successful climax in the previous season and have both started the season with fire in their boots cementing their places as first team regulars.
It is also worthy to note this would not be Iheanacho’s first nomination after losing out to last year’s winner Anthony Martial.
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| Kelechi Iheanacho And Alex Iwobi Have Both Been Nominated For The Golden Boy Award |
The Super Eagles’ stars are not without competiton as they face six other players from the Premier League such as Dele Alli, Marcus Rashford, Gray Demarai Ramelle of Man City.
Other notable youngsters in the list include Renato Sanches and Kingsley Coman of Bayern Munich, Marco Asenio of Real Madrid, Breel Embolo of Schalke 04.
The award is traditionally presented in December.
Alli Bamidele Jermaine (Tottenham Hotspur)
Asensio Marco Willemsen (Real Madrid)
Leon Bailey (Racing Genk)
Bazoer Riechedly (Ajax)
Boschilia Gabriel (Monaco)
Brandt Julian (Bayer Leverkusen)
Carlos Fernández Luna (Sevilla)
Christensen Andreas (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Coman Kingsly (Bayern Munich)
Coric Ante (Dinamo Zagreb)
Diawara Amadou (Napoli)
Dahoud Mahmoud (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Danilo Barbosa da Silva (Benfica)
Dembélé Moussa (Celtic)
Dembélé Ousmane (Borussia Dortmund)
Donnarumma Gianluigi (AC Milan)
Embolo Breel-Donald (Schalke 04)
Gabriel Barbosa Almeida (Internazionale)
Golovin Aleksandr Sergeevic (CSKA Moscow)
Gonçalo Manuel Ganchininho Guedes (Benfica)
Gray Demarai Ramelle (Leicester City)
Grujic Marko (Liverpool)
Halilovic Alen (Hamburger SV)
Iheanacho Kelechi (Manchester City)
Iwobi Alex (Arsenal)
Kovalenko Viktor (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Loftus-Cheek Ruben (Chelsea)
Hernández Lucas (Atletico Madrid)
Mammana Emanuel (Olympique Lyonnais)
Nathan Allan de Souza (Vitesse)
Ntcham Jules Olivier (Genoa)
Rashford Marcus (Manchester United)
Renato Júnior Luz Sanches (Bayern Munich)
Riedewald Jairo (Ajax)
Rúben Diogo da Silva Neves (Porto)
Sanabria Arnaldo Antonio Ayala (Real Betis)
Sané Leroy (Manchester City)
Tah Jonathan Glao (Bayer Leverkusen)
Tielemans Youri (Anderlecht)
Touré Almamy (Monaco)
