Italian daily Tuttosport has revealed the golden boy 2015 40-name shortlist.The 40 names have been nominated for the 2015 Golden Boy award, an honour bestowed upon the best U-21 player of the year. Raheem Sterling won it last year, it is basically an award, where nominees are chosen by top journalists. This award marks the rise of the players, touted to be next big things. Liverpool, Man Utd are long distinguished for nurturing and producing young talents. Three man united players, Adnan Januzaj (on loan at Dortmund), Luke Shaw and Anthony Martial have made the list, Liverpool duo of Ibe and Origi also made it onto the list with Arsenal’s Bellerin. Tottenham’s Dele Alli, Villa’s Traore also was included.
Here is the full list of the 40:
– Nathan Ake (20 / Watford / ENG)
– Dele Alli (19 / Tottenham / ENG)
– Marco Asensio (19 / Espanyol / Real Madrid / ESP)
– Zakaria Bakkali (19 / Valencia / BEL)
– Hector Bellerin (20 / Arsenal / ENG)
– Kingsley Coman (19 / Bayern Munich / FRA)
– Angel Correa (20 / Atletico Madrid / ARG)
– Dahoud Mahmoud (19 / Borussia M’gladbach / ALE)
– Danilo Barbosa (20 / Valencia / BRA)
– Jason Denayer (20 / Galatasaray, Manchester City / BEL)
– Anwar El Ghazi (20 / Ajax Amsterdam / NED)
– Munir El Haddadi (20 / FC Barcelona / ESP)
– Francisco Rodriguez (20 / Wolfsburg / SUI)
– Goncalo Guedes (18 / Benfica / POR)
– Alen Halilovic (19 / Sporting Gijon FC Barcelona / CRO)
– Hojberg Pierre-Emile (20 / Schalke 04 / DIN)
– Jordon Ibe (19 / Liverpool / ENG)
– Kelechi Iheanacho (19 / Manchester City / NIG)
– Adnan Januzaj (20 / Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United / BEL)
– Ricardo Kishna (20 / Lazio / HOL)
– Ruben Loftus-Cheek (19 / Chelsea / ENG)
– Nemanja Maksimovic (20 / Astana / SER)
– Anthony Martial (19 / Manchester United / FRA)
– Max Meyer (20 / Schalke 04 / ALE)
– Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (20 / Lazio / SER)
– Divock Origi (20 / Liverpool / BEL)
– Mario Pasalic (20 / AS Monaco, Chelsea / CRO)
– Gaston Pereiro (20 / PSV Eindhoven / URU)
– Marko Pajca (20 / Dinamo Zagreb / ??CRO)
– Adrien Rabiot (20 / Paris SG / FRA)
– Alessio Romagnoli (20 / AC Milan / ITA)
– Ruben Neves (18 / Porto / POR)
– Sandro Ramirez (20 / FC Barcelona / ESP)
– Luke Shaw (20 / Manchester United / ENG)
– Moses Simon (20 / La Gantoise / NIG)
– Youri Tielemans (18 / RSC Anderlecht / BEL)
– Adama Traore (19 / Aston Villa / ENG)
– Adama Traore (20 / AS Monaco / MAL)
– Tonny Vilhena (20 / Feyenoord / HOL)
– Andrija Zivkovic (19 / Partizan Belgrade / SER)