Pedro’s throneGolden Boy 2021– awaits new owner. Y camavinga he is the great favorite to succeed him; The bookmakers say it, the data reinforces it and the votes endorse it. Tuttosportas every year, is responsible for delivering the award that crowns the best European footballer under 21. The sports medium recently presented the list of 100 candidates after this season and in it there is only a Real Madrid player: Camavinga. The paradox, capitalized, is that this case exemplifies that quality can be worth more than quantity. Well, Madrid, with one, is enough to have the highest applicant. Not unique, because among the hundred pearls there are some truly brilliant; and abundance of midfielders.
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road to gold
The pulse is very tight. No one in any medium puts their hand in the fire because camavinga is going to be the winner, but he is in the The voice of the people that the pole bears his name. We remember how this award works: right now there are 100 names and each month 20 will be reduced, in this way we will reach October 15 with 20 finalists, from which the final winner will emerge, announced at a gala in Turin. It is a kind of ‘screen’, month by month, to give it emotion. This pre-selection is public and is done onlinebut the election of the final winner will correspond exclusively to the votes of 40 international sports media. It is in these newsrooms that Camavinga’s name resonates strongly. Never in history has a Madrid player won this award; in fact, he has never even managed to get on the podium (in 2012 Isco won it, but still being from Malaga).
The left-hander from Cabinda would be a pioneer. He ended up in Chamartín this past summer in exchange for 30 million. His adaptation was slow, being the starter in only four of the first 16 days (although his first goal was fleeting: 6 minutes into his debut against Celta), but little by little he managed to settle down, gain confidence and let go. When he did it, he shone the talent that has elevated him to the point of being worth it, to Transfermarkt55 million. This course has played 40 games, scored two goals (the aforementioned and one to Real Sociedad, on matchday 27) and given seven assists. His best night was against Manchester Citywhen with his injured teammates and the team on the ropes, he recited an ode to nerves of steel that boosted morale to come back… and go to Paris.
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This season he has won the 14th Champions League, 35th League and 12th Spanish Super Cup, three titles that shoot the cache. Already few debate that he will be one of the midfielders of the next decade. At Real Madrid there are no doubts, he is one of the pillars of the ‘eleven of the future’, a player who at the age of 19 has already shown that he has the talent to take over from Casemiro, Kroos and Modric, one of the best machine rooms -if not the best- in the history of the club. This course has exerted oxygen for them, but before the one that comes, it is expected that it will take a step forward, staging the inevitable renovation plan: Tchouameni-Camavinga-Valverde. Outside the field, in addition, he has been discovered as a type happy and closequalities with which he has won over the fans. Now it’s his turn to try to win the Golden Boy 2022.
rivals
And it will not be easy; because ‘favorite’ does not mean ‘winner’. In the popular votes, he is second with 18% of the votes, but this is ‘cheating’: the public is rewarding the Bayer Leverkusen centre-back en masse, Piero Hincapiesince there is another prize on par for the one who receives the most popular votes, el Web Golden Boyand there is a major lift to take that one. But the 40 media accredited to vote in the decisive phase have Camavinga ahead of Hincapié. No one has ever won both (last year, for example, the official won it Pedri and that of the public, Adeyemi).
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And precisely the Barcelona player is another of the great opponents, although in the Blaugrana race Gavi goes ahead. The Sevillian, at 17, is already an international with Spain and a starter with Barcelona; arguments to rise to the top. In general terms, it is considered that the trophy will be between Camavinga, Gavi or Bellingham, the pearl of Dortmund who, as AS announced exclusively, wants Madrid for next summer. Other names to the queue are Gravenberch (Ajax) oh She had to (Bayern). In addition, LaLiga has six other representatives: Nico (Barcelona), Balde (Barcelona), Ansu Fati (Barcelona), Yunus Musah | (Valencia), Nico Williams (Athletic) y Yeremy Pino (Villarreal).
