Ghana and new AFC Ajax midfielder, Mohammed Kudus has made the 80-player shortlist for the 2020 Golden Boy award.
Italian Newspaper Tuttosport – the award organizers – last month announced an initial list of 100 players and have now trimmed it down to 80.
Kudus remains in the knocked-down list facing competition from other rising stars like Alphonso Davies, Myron Boadu, Phil Foden, Jadon Sancho, Mason Greenwood, Erling Haaland and Bukayo Saka.
To qualify for the award, which is decided via a public vote, players must be under 21 years and competing in a top tier domestic league across Europe
Kudus, 19, has been a shining light with FC Nordsjaelland in Denmark over the past two years, prompting Dutch giants AFC Ajax to sign and make him Ghana’s most expensive teenager this week.
On his senior debut for Ghana in November 2019, Mohammed Kudus scored against South Africa in a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier.
Check out the complete list of previous winners of the Golden Boy award:
2003 Rafael van der Vaart
2004 Wayne Rooney
2005 Lionel Messi
2006 Cesc Fàbregas
2007 Sergio Agüero
2008 Anderson
2009 Alexandre Pato
2010 Mario Balotelli
2011 Mario Götze
2012 Isco
2013 Paul Pogba
2014 Raheem Sterling
2015 Anthony Martial
2016 Renato Sanches
2017 Kylian Mbappé
2018 Matthijs de Ligt
2019 João Félix
You can vote Kudus for the 2020 Golden Boy Award by following the link here. He is number 40 on the list.
