big week for Pablo Paez Gaviria, ‘Gavi’. After winning the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d’Or gala on Monday, the young Barça player, who only has 18 yearsis also a winner in golden boy 2022. This was announced just this Friday in a press conference held in Palermo by the newspaper ‘Tuttosport’, which also gives this prize to the best U-21 player in Europe.
The Andalusian midfielder, who succeeded Pedri and will receive the award on November 7 in Turin, beat the Real Madrid player Eduardo Camavinga (19 years), jamal musiala (19 years old) from Bayern Munich and Jude Bellingham (19 years old) from Borussia Dortmund, the other footballers who reached the final vote. This is the first time that two players from the same team have won this award in two consecutive years.
Repeat with a “Visca el Barça!”
Gaviwho in a video published by ‘Tuttosport’ thanked “the jury, the family, Barça, the national team and his teammates”, also informed in his speech, as he did on Monday at the Teatro du Chetelet in Paris , that have “Look at Barca!”.
Four other Barça players are also on the list of 20 nominees: Pedri, Ansu Fati, Alejandro Balde and Nico González, loaned by Barça to Valencia. Despite this, the canary was ineligible for the award because there was an unwritten rule that dictated that the Golden Boy could only win once because it was considered that once he won, the next step was to choose someone else. more trophies like the Ball of Prayer.
Gaviwho was among last year’s nominees, is the third Barça player, then Leo Messi (2005) and Pedro Gonzalez (2021), and the fourth Spanish winner of this award, which was created in 2003 and for which journalists from all over Europe voted, and reached its twentieth edition. They also won before Cesc Fabregas (2006) with Arsenal, Isco Alarcon (2012) with Malaga and the same Peter Gonzalez (2021) with Barça.
The Golden Girl, for Jule Brand (Wolfsburg)
The German from Wolfsburg Jules brand, runner-up in the European Championship, the first winner of the Golden Girl, created for the best U21 player in Europe. Azulgrana is also among the ten finalists Salma Paralluelo.
Recognition for Alexia
In other awards, recognition was also given Alexia Putellas as the best player of 2022, to Karim Benzema as the best player Florentino Perez as the best president ever Paolo Maldini as the best ‘manager’.
Golden Boy winners
2003: Raphael van der Vaart (Ajax/Pba)
2004: Wayne Rooney (Everton-Man. Utd./Eng)
2005: Leo Messi (Barça/Argentina)
2006: Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal/Spa)
2007: Sergio Agüero (In Madrid/Argentina)
2008: Anderson Oliveira (Man. Utd./Bra)
2009: Alexander Duck (Milan/Bra)
2010: mario balotelli (Man City/Ita)
2011: Mario Gotze (B. Dortmund/Ale)
2012: Isco Alarcon (Malaga/Spa)
2013: Paul Pogba (Juventus/France)
2014: Raheem Sterling (Liverpool/Eng)
2015: Anthony Martial (Monaco-Man. Utd/Fra)
2016: Renato Sanchez (Benfica-Bayern/Port)
2017: Kylian Mbappe (Monaco-PSG/Fra)
2018: Matthijs de Ligt (Ajax/Pba)
2019: joao felix (Benfica-At. Madrid/Por)
2020: Erling Halland (Dortmund/North)
2021: Peter Gonzalez (Barca/Spa)
2022: Pablo Paez Gaviria ‘Gavi’ (Barca/Spa)
Source: La Verdad
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