Who will be elected Golden Boy 2024 and will succeed Jude Bellingham? The suspense is almost non-existent, but at least a young Belgian is one of the nominees.
Mika Godts? Konstantinos Karetsas? Julien Duranville? None of these: it is indeed Samuel Swordsman (20 years old), the Juventus winger who became a Belgian U21 international last month, who represents our colors in the 25 finalists for the Golden Boy 2024.
This trophy awarded by Tuttosport has been rewarding the greatest talent in European football since 2003, and revealed a list of 100 names last June. In this initial list, we found Arthur Vermeeren, Malick Fofana, Matte Smets and Matias Delorge.
Now, this list has been reduced to 20 names, to which have been added 5 players selected by the Italian press – “wild cards” who may have been absent from the initial list, in order to reward players who have made an excellent start to the season. season.
It is among these 5 wild cards that Samuel Mbangula was taken, alongside Endrick (Real Madrid), Wilson Odobert (Tottenham) and Eliesse Ben Seghir (AS Monaco). A great reward for the Juventus winger, author of a goal and 3 assists in 5 championship matches.
The 20 finalists from the initial list can be found below. The big favorite is known: it will be Lamine Yamal, the nugget of FC Barcelona, who helped Spain win the Euro this summer and is having another excellent start to the season with 5 goals and 5 assists in 11 matches .
