The Golden Boy is an award that is given by sports journalists to a young football player playing in Europe perceived to have been the most impressive during a calendar year (two halves to two separate seasons).
All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation's top tier.
The prize was established by Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport in 2003. Newspapers that now participate in voting include Bild (Germany), Blick (Switzerland), A Bola (Portugal), l'Équipe (France), France Football (France), Marca (Spain), Mundo Deportivo (Spain), Ta Nea (Greece), Sport Express (Russia), De Telegraaf (Netherlands), and The Times (United Kingdom).
Source: Wikipedia
The 2016 winner was Renato Sanches who is nominated once again.
2017 Golden Boy Nominees
Here's the list of all 98 players (sorted by position):Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan)
Mile Svilar (Anderlecht)
Alban Lafont (Toulouse)
Lazar Carevic (Grbalj)
Antonis Stergiakis (Slavia Sofia)
Luca Zidane (Real Madrid)
Tosin Adarabioyo (Manchester City)
Julen Arellano (Barcelona/Osasuna)
Cameron Carter-Vickers (Tottenham)
Diogo Dalot (Porto)
Matthijs De Ligt (Ajax)
Timothy Fosu-Mensah (Manchester United)
Theo Hernandez (Atletico Madrid/Alaves)
Pol Lirola (Sassuolo)
Cristian Manea (Mouscron)
Adrian Marin (Villarreal/Leganes)
Aaron Martin (Espanyol)
Paolo Medina (Real Madrid)
Jorge Meré (Sporting Gijon)
Felix Passlack (Dortmund)
Malang Sarr (OGC Nice)
Dayot Upamecano (RB Salzburg/Leipzig)
Erik Andersson (Malmo)
Claud Adjapong (Sassuolo)
Maxime Lopez (Marseille)
Nicolò Barella (Cagliari)
Aymen Barkok (Eintracht Franfurt)
Vahan Bichakhchyan (Shirak)
Pape Cheikh (Celta)
Federico Chiesa (Fiorentina)
Ante Coric (Dinamo Zagreb)
Tom Davies (Everton)
Daniel De Silva (Roda)
Amadou Diawara (Napoli)
Mikkel Duelund (Midtjylland)
Sergei Eremenko (FC Basel)
Kolbeinn Finnsson (Groningen)
Christian Frydek (Sparta Prague)
Ianis Hagi (Fiorentina)
Kai Havertz (Bayer Leverkusen)
Benjamin Henrichs (Bayer Leverkusen)
Nanitamo Ikoné (Montpellier)
Bozhidar Kraev (Levski Sofia)
Manuel Locatelli (Milan)
Pablo Maffeo (Manchester City)
Arne Maier (Hertha)
Jean-Victor Makengo (Caen)
Emre Mor (Borussia Dortmund)
Manu Morlanes (Villarreal)
Valentino Müller (Altach)
Ruben Neves (Porto)
Abdelhak Nouri (Ajax)
Abdulkhadir Omur (Trabzonspor)
Javier Ontiveros (Malaga)
Mikel Oyarzabal (Real Sociedad)
Renato Sanches (Bayern)
Gerson Santos Da Silva (Roma)
Ferran Sarsanedas (Barcelona)
Jari Schuurman (Willem II)
Youri Tielemans (Anderlecht)
Idrissa Touré (Schalke 04)
Daniil Utkin (Krasnodar)
Nikola Vlasic (Hajduk)
Sam Schreck (Bayer Leverkusen)
Cristian Rivera (Eibar)
Fabian Benko (Bayern)
Joel Asoro (Sunderland)
Jean-Kevin Augustin (PSG)
Ousmane Dembelé (Dortmund)
Kasper Dolberg (Ajax)
Breel Embolo (Schalke)
Malcom Filipe (Bordeaux)
José Gomes (Benfica)
Nedim Hadzic (Sarajevo)
Alexander Isak (Dortmund)
Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City)
Dejan Joveljic (Red Star)
Dawid Kownacki (Lech Poznan)
Lazaros Lamprou (Panionios)
Jonathan Leko (West Brom)
Christopher Nkunku (PSG)
Jens Odgaard (Lyngby)
Rui Pedro (Porto)
Ezequiel Ponce (Granada)
Alejandro Pozo Pozo (Sevilla)
Christian Pulisic (Dortmund)
Sobhi Ramadan (Stoke)
Marcus Rashford (Manchester United)
Dominic Solanke (Chelsea)
Borna Sosa (Dinamo Zagreb)
Sander Svendsen (Molde)
Enes Unal (Manchester City/Twente)
Thibaud Verlinden (Stoke)
Timur Zhamaletdinov (Cska Moscow)
Benjamin Woodburn (Liverpool)
Justin Kluivert (Ajax)
Youssef En Nesyri (Malaga)
Kylian Mbappé (Monaco)
Discussion: Golden Boy 2017 Nominees FM17 Shortlist
2 comments have been posted so far.
So far I See one issue: Renato Sanches (Bayern Monaco), he plays for Munich, not Monaco.