{"id":160503,"date":"2019-10-15T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160503"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:51:12","slug":"chukwueze-fails-to-make-golden-boy-20-man-shortlist-de-ligt-guendouzi-included-full-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=160503","title":{"rendered":"Chukwueze fails to make Golden Boy 20-man shortlist, De Ligt, Guendouzi included [Full list]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Nigeria-vs-Brazil-What-Samuel-Chukwueze-said-about-friendly-clash.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles\u2019 Samuel Chukwueze, has failed to make the final 20-man shortlist for the Golden Boy award.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious award is given out by Italian newspaper, Tuttosport, for the best player under 21, who plays in the top tier of European football.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze, who plies his trade in LaLiga for Villarreal, made the initial nominees\u2019 list.<\/p>\n<p>Among the contenders are England youngsters, Jadon Sancho, Mason Mount and Phil Foden.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal midfielder, Matteo Guendouzi, has also made the 20-man list, just a year after joining the club from Lorient.<\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid and Portugal youngster, Joao Felix is among the favourites for the prize, having joined from Benfica in a \u00a3113m deal in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Boy final shortlist:<\/p>\n<p>Matthijs de Ligt (20) \u2013 Juventus<br \/>\nAlphonso Davies (18) \u2013 Bayern Munich<br \/>\nGianluigi Donnarumma (20) \u2013 AC Milan<br \/>\nAnsu Fati (16) \u2013 Barcelona<br \/>\nPhil Foden (19) \u2013 Man City<br \/>\nMatteo Guendouzi (20) \u2013 Arsenal<br \/>\nErling Braut Haaland (19) \u2013 RB Salzburg<br \/>\nKai Haverts (20) \u2013 Bayer Leverkusen<br \/>\nJoao Felix (19) \u2013 Atletico Madrid<br \/>\nDejan Joveljic (20) \u2013 Eintracht Frankfurt<br \/>\nMoise Kean (19) \u2013 Everton<br \/>\nLee Kang-in (18) \u2013 Valencia<br \/>\nAndriy Lunin (20) \u2013 Real Madrid<br \/>\nDonyell Malen (20) \u2013 PSV<br \/>\nMason Mount (20) \u2013 Chelsea<br \/>\nRodrygo (18) \u2013 Real Madrid<br \/>\nJadon Sancho (19) \u2013 Borussia Dortmund<br \/>\nFerran Torres (19) \u2013 Valencia<br \/>\nVinicius Junior (19) \u2013 Real Madrid<br \/>\nNicolo Zaniolo (20) \u2013 Roma<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles\u2019 Samuel Chukwueze, has failed to make the final 20-man shortlist for the Golden Boy award. The prestigious award is given out by Italian newspaper, Tuttosport, for the best player under 21, who plays in the top tier of European football. Chukwueze, who plies his trade in LaLiga for Villarreal, made the initial nominees\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,12705],"class_list":["post-160503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-samuel-chukwueze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}