Sunday 7 December 2008

Bojan fourth in Golden Boy trophy

Barcelona forward Bojan Krkic has finished fourth in the Golden Boy election, the award that designates the best under-21 football player in Europe, voted by sportswriters and organized by Italian sports paper Tuttosport.

Barcelona player Lionel Messi won the trophy in 2005, former Barcelona player Cesc Fàbregas won it in 2006. Last year, Atlético Madrid forward Sergio Aqüero was elected.




Full results

1. Anderson (Manchester United, Bra, 20) --- 129
2. Theo Walcott (Arsenal, Eng, 19) --- 126
3. Sergio Aguero (Atlético Madrid, Arg, 20) --- 109

4. Bojan (Barcelona, Spa, 18) --- 101
5. Pato (AC Milan, Bra, 19) --- 68
6. Mario Balotelli (Inter Milan, Ita, 18) --- 54

7. Sergio Busquets (Barcelona, Spa, 20) --- 27
8. Ivan Rakitic (Schalke 04, Cro, 20) --- 21
9. Diego Capel (Sevilla, Spa, 20) --- 20
10. Miralem Sulejmani (Ajax, Ser, 20) --- 18

11. Nicklas Bendtner (Arsenal, Dan, 20) --- 15
12. Angel Di María (Benfica, Arg, 20) --- 14
13. Toni Kroos (Bayern Munich, Ger, 20) --- 14
14. Juan Mata (Valencia, Spa, 20) --- 10
15. Stevan Jovetic (Fiorentina, Mon, 19) --- 7
16. Alexis Sánchez (Udinese, Chi, 19) --- 7
17. Nikola Kalinic (Hajduk Split, Cro, 20) --- 5
18. Simão (Panathinaikos, Moz, 20) --- 5
19. Mesut Özil (Werder Bremen, Ger, 20) --- 4
20. Gareth Bale (Tottenham, Eng, 19) --- 3

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

walcott is better than anderson...but i guess he still has time to win it...

Anonymous said...

The Italian sports writers either didn't want to give the award to the same player twice in a row or they don't watch enough Spanish football. Aguero is far and away better than Walcott and Anderson, especially if you take last season's performance into consideration.

Anonymous said...

i agree with james ,big kun deserves this more than anyone

Anonymous said...

two croatians
great!!!!
http://barca-cro.com/portal/

:) :D

Anonymous said...

No other team has 2 players in top ten...

Harshawardhan said...

anderson doesnt deserve this. kun or even walcott are far better..

koko=barca said...

is this a joke? Andersson?!?! that guy is on the same level as Smith or boyer. I wouldn't put him in the Top 50

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