REVEALED: The 98-Man Shortlist For The 2017 Golden Boy Award

The 2017 Golden Boy Award shortlist has now been announced.

The Golden Boy Award is an annual award hosted by Italian news outlet Tuttosport, and it is given to the best football player under the age of 21 in Europe.

It has been previously awarded to some of the biggest names in the world of football at present, with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi, Cesc Fabregas, Sergio Aguero, Mario Balotelli, Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial, and Renato Sanches amongst the names on this glorious list of players.

And now, Tuttosport has named the 98 young players that are the nominees for this year’s award.

This shortlist consists of 14 current Premier League talents, with Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford amongst the favourites to win this individual title, thanks to the year he has had since making his debut in March 2016. The Englishman’s club teammate Timothy Fosu-Mensah has also made it to the list.

Manchester City have four representatives of their own, in the form of Tosin Adarabioyo, Pablo Maffeo, FC Twente loanee Enes Unal, and Gabriel Jesus, who is also one of the favourites.

Liverpool’s Ben Woodburn and Everton’s Tom Davies are also present, along with Stoke City duo Ramadan Sobhi and Thibaud Verlinden, Sunderland’s Joel Asuro, Tottenham’s Cameron Carter-Vickers, West Brom’s Jonathan Leko and Chelsea’s Dominic Solanke.

Other favourites for this award from across the continent include AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, Monaco starlet Kylian Mbappe, Anderlecht’s Youri Tielemans, Borussia Dortmund man Ousmane Dembele, as well as Bayern Munich midfielder and current holder of the Golden Boy Award, Renato Sanches.

The complete 98-man list is as follows:

Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan)

Mile Svilar (Anderlecht)

Alban Lafont (Toulouse)

Lazar Karevic (OFK Grbalj)

Antonis Stergiakis (Slavia Sofia)

Luca Zidane (Real Madrid)

Tosin Adarabioyo (Manchester City)

Julen Arellano (Barcelona / Osasuna)

Cameron Carter-Vickers (Tottenham)

Diogo Dalot (Porto)

Matthijs De Ligt (Ajax)

Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Manchester United)

Theo Hernandez (Atletico Madrid / Alavés)

Pol Lirola (Sassuolo)

Cristian Manea (Mouscron)

Adrian Marin (Villarreal / Leganes)

Aaron Martin (Espanyol)

Paolo Medina (Real Madrid)

Mere Jorge (Sporting Gijon)

Felix Passlack (Borussia Dortmund)

Malang Sarr (Nice)

Dayot Upamecano (RB Salzburg / Leipzig)

Erik Andersson (Malmö)

Claude Adjapong (Sassuolo)

Maxime Baila Lopez (Marseille)

Nicolò Barella (Cagliari)

Aymen Barkok (Eintracht Frankfurt)

Vahan Bichakhchyan (Shirak Gyumri)

Pape Cheikh (Celta Vigo)

Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina)

Ante Coric (Dinamo Zagreb)

Tom Davies (Everton)

Daniel Da Silva (Rome)

Amadou Diawara (Naples)

Mikkel Duelund (Midtjylland)

Sergei Eremenko (Basel)

Kolbeinn Finnsson (Groningen)

Christian Frydek (Sparta Prague)

Ianis Hagi (Fiorentina)

Kai Havertz (Bayer Leverkusen)

Benjamin Henrichs (Bayer Leverkusen)

Nanitamo IKONE (Montpellier)

Bozhidar Kraev (Levski Sofia)

Manuel Locatelli (Milan)

Pablo Maffeo (Manchester City)

Arne Maier (Hertha Berlin)

Jean-Victor Makengo (Caen)

Emre Mor (Borussia Dortmund)

Manu Morlanes (Villarreal)

Valentino Müller (Altach)

Ruben Neves (Porto)

Abdelhak Nouri (Ajax)

Abdulkhadir Omur (Trabzonspor)

Javier Ontiveros (Malaga)

Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad)

Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich)

Gerson Santos Da Silva (Rome)

Ferran Sarsanedas (Barcelona)

Jari Schuurman (Willem II)

Youri Tielemans (Anderlecht)

Idrissa Touré (Schalke 04)

Daniil Utkin (Krasnodar)

Nikola Vlasic (Hajduk Split)

Sam Schreck (Bayer Leverkusen)

Cristian Rivera (Eibar)

Fabian Benko (Bayern Munich)

Joel Asoro (Sunderland)

Jean-Kevin Augustin (PSG)

Ousmane Dembelé (Borussia Dortmund)

Kasper Dolberg (Ajax)

Bréel Embolo (Schalke 04)

Malcom Filipe (Bordeaux)

José Gomes (Benfica)

Nedim Hadzic (Sarajevo)

Alexander Isak (Borussia Dortmund)

Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City)

Dejan Joveljic (Red Star)

Dawid Kownacki (Lech Poznan)

Lazaros Lamprou (Panionios)

Jonathan Leko (West Bromwich Albion)

Christopher Nkunku (PSG)

Jens Odgaard (Lyngby)

Rui Pedro (Porto)

Ezequiel Ponce (Granada)

Alejandro Pozo Pozo (Seville)

Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund)

Sobhy Ramadan (Stoke City)

Marcus Rashford (Manchester United)

Dominic Solanke (Chelsea / Cambuur)

Borna Sosa (Dinamo Zagreb)

Sander Svendsen (Molde)

Enes Unal (Manchester City / Twente)

Thibaud Verlinden (Stoke City)

Timur Zhamaletdinov (CSKA Moscow)

Benjamin Woodburn (Liverpool)

Justin Kluivert (Ajax)

Youssef En Nesyri (Malaga)

Kylian Mbappe (Monaco)

 

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