BARÇA LEADS IN CANDIDATES
Five 'jewels' of Barça among the 40 finalists of the Golden Boy
Published:16/09/2022 - 16:13h
Updated:16/09/2022 - 16:41h
The last cut of the 40 candidates to win this year's Golden Boy has revealed that five Barça footballers will compete for the trophy that will be awarded in December
The list of the finalists for the Golden Boy 2022 has gone back to reduce launching the 40 contendientes that will contest the recognition of the Italian newspaper 'Tuttosport'. The last in raising it was Pedri González, the player of the FC Barcelona, the one who again is body the big candidates to carry the trophy by second consecutive year.
However, the Canarian is not the only member of the group culé that appears between the nominated. In this last cut also has gone in the name of Alejandro Balde, one of the players that little by little has gone winning a place inside the alignments of Xavi Hernández and also the one of Nico González, that now finds yielded in the Valency of Gennaro Gattuso.
To them it adds them Ansu Fati, the one who in spite of not going in in the announcement of Luis Enrique for the commitments of UEFA Nations League in front of Switzerland and Portugal, keeps on being a footballer with a lot of talent and quality in his booties. The fifth, as it could not be another, is Gavi. The Andalusian has been of the most important midfield players of the moment because of his rhythm and youth, being one of the pillars in the medullary Barcelona.
Like this the things, the Barcelona is the club with more nominated to achieve the prize in the next gala of Turín that will celebrate in the month of December, where the greater promises of the balompié world-wide will gather and will be witnesses of an award that precedes to the most important recognition to individual level in the 'deport king': the Balloon of Gold.
The 40 nominated
- 1. Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund)
- 2. Alejandro Balde (FC Barcelona)
- 3. Martin Baturina (Dinamo Zagreb)
- 4. Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund)
- 5. Brian Brobbey (Ajax)
- 6. Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid)
- 7. Matteo Cancellieri (Lazio)
- 8. Anthony Elanga (Manchester United)
- 9. Harvey Elliot (Liverpool)
- 10. Sebastiano Esposito (Anderlecht)
- 11. Fábio Carvalho (Liverpool)
- 12. Fábio Silva (Anderlecht)
- 13. Ansu Fati (FC Barcelona)
- 14. Gavi (FC Barcelona)
- 15. Degnand Gnonto (Leeds United)
- 16. Ryan Gravenberch (Bayern Munich)
- 17. Jasko Gvardiol (RB Leipzig)
- 18. Henrique Araújo (Benfica)
- 19. Piero Upsetting (Bayer Leverkusen)
- 20. Rasmus Hojlund (Atalanta)
- 21. Ansgar Knauff (Eintracht Frankfurt)
- 22. Castello Lukeba (Olympique Lyon)
- 23. Marcus Marquinhos (Arsenal)
- 24. Fabio Miretti (Juventus)
- 25. Yunus Musah (Valencia)
- 26. Nico González (Valencia)
- 27. Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich)
- 28. Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint-Germain)
- 29. Yéremi Pino (Villarreal)
- 30. Pedri González (FC Barcelona)
- 31. Giovanni Reyna (Borussia Dortmund)
- 32. Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta)
- 33. Benjamin Sesko (RB Salzburg)
- 34. Kiliann Sildilla (Friburgo)
- 35. Xavi Simmons (PSV Eindhoven)
- 36. Luka Sucic (RB Salzburg)
- 37. Mathys Tel (Bayern Munich)
- 38. JanUwe Thielmann (Colony)
- 39. Iyenoma Udogie (Udinese)
- 40. Nicola Zalewski (ACE Rome)
