Argentina and Morocco face off this Sunday at 8 PM within the grand remaining of the U20 World Cup.
The choice often additionally determines who will probably be elected the star of the match.
The Golden Ball of the competitors has a historical past of nice stars, corresponding to Messi, Pogba, and Maradona.
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However do you know that Brazil is the nation with essentially the most awarded gamers?
Together with the Caioba from FIFA, the previous ahead Caio Ribeiro, now a commentator.
There have been six winners within the historical past of the match: Geovani, Paulo Silas, Bismarck, Adriano Gerlin, Caio Ribeiro, and Henrique Almeida.
Among the many Brazilians, the now commentator was the participant who had essentially the most profitable profession.
Caio has performed for main Brazilian golf equipment, corresponding to Flamengo and Santos, in addition to Internazionale and Napoli in Italy.
The final Brazilian to win was Henrique Almeida, a ahead from Amazonas, now 34 years outdated.
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Revealed by São Paulo, the ahead broke out after being the highest scorer and elected the star of the U20 World Cup title, gained by the Brazilian staff in 2011.
In that era, Henrique Almeida stood out amongst names like Casemiro, Oscar, Philippe Coutinho, Dudu, Roberto Firmino, in addition to Lucas Moura and Neymar, who didn’t compete within the match as they had been with the principle staff on the Copa América.
📸 VANDERLEI ALMEIDA – 2011 AFP
Argentina is the second-largest winner of the U20 Golden Ball, with 4 trophies.
Take a look at all of the winners under:
U20 World Cup Golden Balls
1977: Vladimir Bessonov (USSR)
1979: Diego Maradona (Argentina)
1981: Romulus Gabor (Romania)
1985: Paulo Silas (Brazil)
1987: Robert Prosinecki (Yugoslavia)
1991: Emílio Peixe (Portugal)
1993: Adriano Gerlin (Brazil)
1995: Caio Ribeiro (Brazil)
1997: Nicolás Olivera (Uruguay)
1999: Seydou Keita (Mali)
2001: Javier Saviola (Argentina)
2003: Ismail Matar (United Arab Emirates)
2005: Lionel Messi (Argentina)
2007: Sergio Agüero (Argentina)
2009: Dominic Adiyiah (Ghana)
2011: Henrique Almeida (Brazil)
2013: Paul Pogba (France)
2015: Adama Traoré (Mali)
2017: Dominic Solanke (England)
2019: Kangin Lee (South Korea)
2023: Cesare Casadei (Italy)
This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.
📸 EITAN ABRAMOVICH – 2011 AFP