Golden Boy awards

Italian newspaper Tuttosport release the list for this year's golden boy award which is spearheaded by the 2017 winner Kylian Mbappe. This award is given to the player with the best performance under the age 21 and plies his trade in Europe.

Since its inception, Golden boy awards have had 15 previous winners going from Rafael van der Vaart through Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney, Paul Pogba, Raheem Sterling, Anthony Martial, Renato Sanches to mention a few.

European media come together to vote for their choices, including the Corriere dello Sport, Gazzetta dello Sport, Marca, L’Equipe, Bild, Times, Blick, De Telegraaf, A Bola, Sport-Express, Aftonbladet and SportDay.

A list of 100 under-21 players all across European clubs, Kylian Mbappe who happens to win the 2017 edition is on the list as the favourite to retain the award and go on to set a record as the player to win it not only twice but also back to back, on the list also is Milan forward Patrick Cutrone, Atalanta striker Musa Barrow, new Genoa buy Lorenzo Callegari, Inter winger Yann Karamoh, Roma purchase Justin Kluivert, Cagliari’s North Korean star Kwang-Song Han and Italian Pietro Pellegri.

Golden Boy 2018 candidates: Kylian Mbappé (PSG), Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Carles Alena (Barcelona), Jose Maria Amo (Sevilla), Angel Gomes (Manchester United), Mirko Antonucci (Roma), Houssem Aouar (Lyon), Giorgi Arabidze (Shakhtar Donetsk), Joaquin Ardaiz (Antwerp), Ismail Azzaoui (Wolfsburg), Musa Barrow (Atalanta), Fabian Benko (Linz), Sander Berge (Genk), Justin Bijlow (Feyenoord), Bilal Boutobba (Marseille), Brahim Diaz (Manchester City), Lorenzo Callegari (Genoa), Lazar Carevic (Barcelona), Danny Collinge (Stuttgart), Patrick Cutrone (Milan), Dani Olmo (GNK Dinamo), Tom Davies (Everton), Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax), Abdou Diakhate (Fiorentina), Krepin Diatta (Club Brugge), Javairo Dilrosun (Hertha Berlin), Diogo Dalot (Manchester United), Moussa Djenepo (Standard Liege), Ritsu Doan (Groningen), Mamadou Doucoure (Borussia Monchengladbach), Odsonne Edouard (Celtic), Marcus Edwards (Tottenham), Sergei Eremenko (Spartak Moscow), Zackarias Faour (Oster IF), Franchu (Real Madrid), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Mamadou Fofana (Alanyaspor), Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Manchester United), Dennis Geiger (Hoffenheim), Giorgos Giannoutsos (AEK Athens), Ianis Hagi (Viitorul), Achraf Hakimi (Real Madrid), Amadou Haidara (RB Salzburg), Kai Havertz (Bayer Leverkusen), Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea), Jonathan Ikone (PSG), Alexander Isak (Borussia Dortmund), Arnel Jakupovic (Juventus), Dejan Joveljic (Red Star Belgrade), Herbie Kane (Liverpool), Yann Karamoh (Inter), Justin Kluivert (Roma), Teun Koopmeiners (AZ Alkmaar), Kwang-Song Han (Cagliari), Alban Lafont (Toulouse), Leandrinho (Napoli), Dimitris Liminios (PAOK), Lincoln (Rizespor), Jordan Lotomba (Young Boys), Davor Lovren (GNK Dinamo), Sandri Lovric (Sturm Graz), Mikhail Lysov (Lokomotiv Moscow), Arne Meier (Hertha Berlin), Dennis Man (FCSB), Manu Garcia (Manchester City), Faitout Maouassa (Stade Rennais), Mauro Junior (PSV), Weston McKennie (Schalke), Jan Mlakar (Maribor), Nikola Moro (GNK Dinamo), Reiss Nelson (Arsenal), Lukas Nmecha (Manchester City), Martin Odegaard (Real Madrid), Abdulkadir Omur (Trabzonspor), Matej Oravec (Spartak Trnava), Reece Oxford (West Ham), Pedro Pereira (Genoa), Pietro Pellegri (Monaco), Alejandro Pozo (Sevilla), Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund), Jeff Reine-Adelaide (Arsenal), Panagiotsis Retsos (Bayer Leverkusen), Rui Pedro (Boavista), Yusuf Sari (Marseille), Ismaila Sarr (Stade Rennais), Malang Sarr (Nice), Borna Sosa (Stuttgart), Moussa Sylla (Monaco), Toni Moya (Atletico Madrid), Idrissa Toure (Werder Bremen), Moussa Wague (KAS Eupen), Chris Willock (Benfica), Ben Woodburn (Liverpool), Rafink Zheknini (Fiorentina), Andi Zeqiri (Lausanne), Baris Zeren (Galatasaray), Luca Zidane (Real Madrid)

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