In good news on the morning of his return to training, almost recovered from a grade 1 syndesmosis injury in his right ankle that prevented him from playing in Barça’s last three games against Real Sociedad, Celta and Brest and two friendlies of the Spanish team, Lamine Yamal added another reason for the early afternoon celebration. The 17-year-old winger was announced by the prestigious sports newspaper Tuttosport as Golden Boy 2024 in an event that took place in the Sala Trasparenza of the magnificent skyscraper of the Regione Piemonte in Turin (Italy). Kenan Yildizfrom Juventus, won the Golden Boy Web and Michael Kayode (Fiorentina), the Italian Golden Boy.
To get it, you still have to wait a few days, specifically until Monday, November 16 at a Gala that will also be held in Turin, headquarters of Tuttosportthe Italian sports newspaper that awards the best U-21 in the world, a youth Ballon d’Or for players of any nationality playing for a European club. Lamine Yamal He already won this year Cup Trophy at the Ballon d’Or Gala for the best Under-21.
This will be the result of a vote by 50 expert journalists from newspapers across Europe, including Mundo Deportivo, who will have to choose between the 25 finalists announced on October 17 at the Casina Posta in Rome, with another Barça player as Pau Cubarsi between them. Although the first open list of 100 candidates was announced at the beginning of the year.
After successive monthly screenings, Laminate He has everything to make the Real Madrid player succeed in the list of winners. Jude Bellinghamwinner in 2023, and pose in Barcelona with Pedri and Gaviawarded in 2021 and 2022, respectively. And that’s not all. So he will follow the path of the player to whom everyone compares him in a dangerously inescapable way: leo messi Golden Boy in 2005. This will be the fourth for a Barcelona player, third for a young player trained at La Masia, since Peter He has arrived from UD Las Palmas directly to the first team.
Golden Boy
The 25 finalists (in no particular order)
Lamine Yamal (Barcelona/Spain)
Alejandro Garnacho (M. United/Argentina)
Warren Zaire-Emery (PSG/France)
Joao Neves (PSG/Portugal)
Pau Cubarsí (Barcelona/Spain)
Jorrel Hato (Ajax/Holland)
Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United/England)
Aleksandar Pavlovic (Bayern/Germany)
Rico Lewis (Manchester City/England)
Savio (Manchester City/Brazil)
Adam Wharton (Crystal Palace/England)
Christian Mosquera (Valencia/Spain)
Kenan Yildiz (Juventus/Turkey)
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (Dortmund/England)
Leny Yoro (Manchester United/France)
Samu Omorodion (Porto/Spain)
Oscar Gloukh (Salzburg/Israel)
Désiré Doué (PSG/France)
Mathys Tel (Bayern/France)
Arda Güler (Real Madrid/Turkey)
Endrick (Real Madrid/Brazil)
Andreas Schjelderup (Benfica/Norway)
Wilson Odobert (Tottenham/France)
Eliesse Ben Seghir (Monaco/Morocco)
Samuel Mbangula (Juventus/Belgium)
Lamine Yamal He is already the favorite because in December 2023, at the Gala of the previous edition, he won the Youngest Boy, created by Tuttosport to recognize “the youngest player to enter the vote”. The young Barça player was 16 years old at the time and Tuttosport, which created the prestigious award in 2003, already predicted that “it is natural to think that one day he will win because he has four editions ahead of him to do it. .” AND Laminate He didn’t want to wait any longer. At 17 years old he burst into Barça and into a Spanish team where he amazed and won the European Championship.
Source: La Verdad
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