The shortlist for the 2025 Golden Boy Award has been revealed, with Spanish soccer looking for its fifth consecutive winner. Nonetheless Actual Madrid will like their possibilities of wrestling again the award from Barcelona this season.
Tuttosport’s Golden Boy award has been dominated by Spanish soccer lately, though primarily by Barcelona and Actual Madrid. The award is given to the highest participant beneath the age of 21, and final yr Lamine Yamal was the winner. He was preceded by Actual Madrid’s Jude Bellingham following his debut marketing campaign on the Santiago Bernabeu, and Gavi and Pedri picked up the awards of their breakout campaigns at Barcelona in 2022 and 2021.
4 entrants from Actual Madrid and Barcelona
Whereas Barcelona have dominated the award over the past 4 years, the Blaugrana have only one candidate this yr, a decline from current years, with Pau Cubarsi flying the flag for Barcelona. In the meantime Actual Madrid have three entrants, albeit Franco Mastantuono and Dean Huijsen are there primarily for his or her exploits with Bournemouth and River Plate, earlier than they joined Los Blancos. Their third entrant is Arda Guler, as he appears to claim himself in Xabi Alonso’s midfield.
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Tuttosport provides ‘wild card’ entrants
The listing consists of 20 gamers nominated for the award, and has been composed by the Soccer Benchmark Index, who composed an algorithm to determine the most effective 20 candidates. Nonetheless Tuttosport have added 5 ‘wild card’ entrants, to keep away from any doable injustices created by the algorithm. These 5 wildcards are Jobe Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Francesco Pio Esposito (Inter), Rodrigo Mora (Porto), Giovanni Leoni (Liverpool) and Aleksandar Stankovic (Brugge).
Jorge Mendes met with Lamine Yamal for 2 hours as we speak. Then, Deco met with the agent. @sport
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Notably, the Premier League has 9 gamers nominated for the award, whereas France and England are the best-represented nations, with 5 gamers every. The favorite for the award is Paris Saint-Germain and France’s Need Doue, who lifted the Champions League this yr, whereas Kenan Yildiz of Juventus and Estevao of Chelsea can even be within the operating.