Tuttosport has announced their 100-player Golden Boy award nominees for 2022, which includes ten young players from Premier League.
The award, which recognizes the best player under the age of 21 in a calendar year, has been won by a number of modern-day legends.
Pedri, the previous winner, is nominated for the award once more. Nico and Gavi, his Barcelona colleagues, have also been shortlisted.
Real Madrid’s Eduardo Camavinga, Bayern Munich’s Jamal Musiala, and Borussia Dortmund’s Jude Bellingham are also among the nominees.
Harvey Elliott and Adam Diallo are among the Premier League players nominated, as well as Fabio Silva, Ki-Jana Hoever, Pape Matar Sarr, Yan Couto, Kacper Kozlowski, and Joe Gelhardt.
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Golden Boy 2022: Confirmed nominees
Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund)
Felix Afena-Gyan (Roma)
Lucien Agoume (Inter)
Anouar Ait El Hadj (Anderlecht)
Janis Antiste (Spezia)
Alejandro Balde (Barcelona)
Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund)
Stipe Biuk (HNK Hajduk Split)
Edoardo Bove (Roma)
Jayden Braaf (Borussia Dortmund)
Brian Brobbey (Ajax)
Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid)
Rayan Cherki (Lyon)
Mohamed-Ali Cho (Angers)
Francisco Conceicao (Porto)
Yan Couto (Manchester City)
Mohamed Daramy (Ajax)
Amar Dedic (Red Bull Salzburg)
Amad Diallo (Manchester United)
Diego Moreira (Benfica)
Jeremy Doku (Rennes)
Radu Dragusin (Juventus)
Hugo Ekitike (Reims)
Anthony Elanga (Manchester United)
Harvey Elliott (Liverpool)
Sebastiano Esposito (Inter)
Maxime Esteve (Montpellier)
Fabio Carvalho (Liverpool)
Fabio Silva (Wolves)
Ansu Fati (Barcelona)
Gavi (Barcelona)
Joe Gelhardt (Leeds)
Wilfried Gnonto (Zurich)
Ryan Gravenberch (Bayern Munich)
Malo Gusto (Lyon)
Josko Gvardiol (RB Leipzig)
Henrique Araujo (Benfica)
Aaron Hickey (Bologna)
Piero Hincapie (Bayer Leverkusen)
Adam Hlozek (Bayer Leverkusen)
Ki-Jana Hoever (Wolves)
Ilaix Moriba (RB Leipzig)
Joelson Fernandes (Sporting CP)
Isak Bergmann Johannesson (Copenhagen)
Nemanja Jovic (Partizan Belgrade)
Arnaud Kalimuendo (Paris Saint-Germain)
Jakub Kaminski (Wolfsburg)
Ansgar Knauff (Borussia Dortmund)
Kacper Kozlowski (Brighton)
Isaac Lihadji (Lille)
Castello Lukeba (Lyon)
Noni Madueke (PSV Eindhoven)
Eliot Matazo (Monaco)
Nathanael Mbuku (Reims)
Fabio Miretti (Juventus)
Youssoufa Moukoko (Borussia Dortmund)
Yunus Musah (Valencia)
Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich)
Cher Ndour (Benfica)
Luca Netz (Borussia Monchengladbach)
Tanguy Nianzou (Bayern Munich)
Nico (Barcelona)
Nico Williams (Athletic Club)
Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint-Germain)
Becir Omeragic (Zurich)
Simone Pafundi (Udinese)
Matias Palacios (Basel)
Paulo Bernardo (Benfica)
Pedri (Barcelona)
Yeremi Pino (Villarreal)
Devyne Rensch (Ajax)
Gio Reyna (Borussia Dortmund)
Fabian Rieder (Young Boys)
Rodrigo Ribeiro (Sporting CP)
Luka Romero (Lazio)
Georginio Rutter (Hoffenheim)
Lazar Samardzic (Udinese)
Cisse Sandra (Club Brugge)
Pape Matar Sarr (Tottenham)
Joe Scally (Borussia Monchengladbach)
Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta)
Benjamin Sesko (Reb Bull Salzburg)
Brandon Soppy (Udinese)
Matias Soule (Juventus)
Filip Stevanovic (Manchester City)
Luka Sucic (Red Bull Salzburg)
Kamaldeen Sulemana (Rennes)
Tomas Suslov (Groningen)
Jan Thielmann (Koln)
Tiago Tomas (Sporting CP)
Malik Tillman (Bayern Munich)
Destiny Udogie (Hellas Verona)
Maarten Vandevoordt (Genk)
Aster Vranckx (Wolfsburg)
Elye Wahi (Montpellier)
Illya Zabarnyi (Dynamo Kyiv)
Nicola Zalewski (Roma)