The shortlist for the 2015 Golden Boy award has been released with Arsenal’s Hector Bellerin and Manchester United’s Anthony Martial prominently featured in the race to crown Europe’s best player under the age of 21.
Having started in 2003, the winner is voted for by a wide reaching panel of journalists from several leading news outlets, including The Times.
And it seems that this year’s list has a few Premier League entries as Bellerin and Martial are joined by the likes of Tottenham’s Dele Alli, Jordon Ibe of Liverpool, Aston Villa’s Adama Traore and Man United full-back Luke Shaw.
See the full list below with the Premier League entries in bold.
– 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)
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