England striker Michelle Agyemang and 9 Premier League stars are within the operating for honours that recognise the perfect younger gamers in Europe.
Agyemang has been nominated for the Golden Woman award, whereas the Premier League contingent are on the 25-player Golden Boy shortlist.
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The awards, created by Italian newspaper Tuttosport, are given to the perfect under-21 footballers every year, with Barcelona ahead Lamine Yamal changing into final yr’s Golden Boy winner. Vicky Lopez, additionally of Barcelona, is the Golden Woman holder.
The likes of Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappe, Erling Haaland and Wayne Rooney are earlier winners of the lads’s award, whereas Germany’s Jule Model and Colombian Linda Caicedo have taken the ladies’s award.
For a participant to be thought-about in 2025, they should have been born on or after January 1, 2005, and belong to a squad in certainly one of Uefa’s prime 25 leagues.
Regardless of remaining eligible by age, Yamal, 18, isn’t named among the many nominees as a result of a participant can’t win the award twice.
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The 9 Premier League nominees are Arsenal left-back Lewis-Skelly and midfielder Ethan Nwaneri, Tottenham Hotspur midfielders Lucas Bergvall and Archie Grey, Chelsea ahead Estevao and defender Jorrel Hato, Manchester United defender Leny Yoro, Manchester Metropolis full-back Nico O’Reilly and Liverpool centre half Giovanni Leoni.
O’Reilly, 20, was named within the senior England squad for the primary time for the current internationals however has but to make his debut for Thomas Tuchel’s workforce.
Defender Dean Huijsen, who joined Actual Madrid from Bournemouth in the summertime, can be nominated.
A number one contender for the Golden Boy award is Paris St-Germain ahead Need Doue, who completed 14th within the Ballon d’Or vote after profitable the Champions League along with his membership aspect.
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Borussia Dortmund midfielder Jobe Bellingham can be a nominee after serving to Sunderland attain the highest flight through the play-offs earlier than a transfer to the Bundesliga. Brother Jude of Actual Madrid gained the award in 2023.
Agyemang was a Euro 2025 hero for England, with the 19-year-old coming off the bench to attain very important late equalisers in opposition to Sweden and Italy within the knockout stage because the Lionesses went on to efficiently defend the trophy.
These notable contributions earned her the Younger Participant of the Event award.
She joins Chelsea midfielder Wieke Kaptein and Manchester Metropolis midfielder Iman Beney on the 10-player shortlist for the ladies’s award.
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Award winners are determined by a ballot of fifty chosen sports activities journalists from throughout Europe.
Golden Boy 2025 nominees:
Pau Cubarsi – Barcelona
Dean Huijsen – Actual Madrid
Arda Guler – Actual Madrid
Franco Mastantuono – Actual Madrid
Need Doue – Paris St-Germain
Warren Zaire-Emery – Paris St-Germain
Senny Mayulu – Paris St-Germain
Kenan Yildiz – Juventus
Ethan Nwaneri – Arsenal
Myles Lewis-Skelly – Arsenal
Lucas Bergvall – Tottenham Hotspur
Archie Grey – Tottenham Hotspur
Geovany Quenda – Sporting
Leny Yoro – Manchester United
Nico O’Reilly – Manchester Metropolis
Jobe Bellingham – Borussia Dortmund
Francesco Pio Esposito – Inter
Giovanni Leoni – Liverpool
Aleksandar Stankovic – Membership Brugge
Eliesse Ben Seghir – Bayer Leverkusen
Victor Froholdt – Porto
Mamadou Sarr – Strasbourg
Golden Woman 2025 nominees:
Michelle Agyemang – Brighton, on mortgage from Arsenal
Iman Beney – Manchester Metropolis
Eva Schatzer – Juventus
Smilla Holmberg – Hammarby
Felicia Schroder – Hacken
Wieke Kaptein – Chelsea
Nina Mtaejic – Zenit St Petersburg