The shortlist for the 2025 Golden Boy Award has been revealed, with Spanish soccer searching for its fifth consecutive winner. Nonetheless Actual Madrid will like their probabilities of wrestling again the award from Barcelona this season.
Golden Boy award has been dominated by Spanish soccer in recent times, though primarily by Barcelona and Actual Madrid. The award is given to the highest participant underneath the age of 21, and . He was on the Santiago Bernabeu, and Gavi and Pedri picked up the awards of their breakout campaigns at Barcelona in 2022 and 2021.
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4 entrants from Actual Madrid and Barcelona
Whereas Barcelona have dominated the award during the last 4 years, the Blaugrana have only one candidate this 12 months, a decline from latest 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 seems to claim himself in Xabi Alonso’s midfield.
Tuttosport provides ‘wild card’ entrants
The record consists of 20 gamers nominated for the award, and has been composed by the Soccer Benchmark Index, who composed an algorithm to determine the very best 20 candidates. Nonetheless Tuttosport have added 5 ‘wild card’ entrants, to keep away from any attainable 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).
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 Want Doue, who lifted the Champions League this 12 months, whereas Kenan Yildiz of Juventus and Estevao of Chelsea will even be within the operating.