Marcus Rashford, Kelechi Iheanacho And Others Nominated For UEFA Golden Boy Award

 

Marcus Rashford has enjoyed a stellar 2016 since making his Manchester United debut in February - including becoming an England international and now the 18years old's meteoric climb has seen him nominated for the 2016 UEFA Golden Boy award.

The striker is one of 10 Premier League-based players on the 40-man shortlist which recognises the best talent in Europe under the age of 21. Nominations for the award must be born after January 1, 1996 and play for a European club. The award, founded in 2003, relates to performances across a particular calendar year, with the winner decided by a panel of 30 journalists.

As well as Rashford, Arsenal forward Alex Iwobi makes the cut after shining for Arsene Wenger's side. Tottenham also have a representative in Dele Alli, three representatives from Chelsea and they are Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Andreas Christensen and Nathan while Manchester City have two; Kelechi Iheanacho and Leroy Sane.

Manchester United have had three of them with Wayne Rooney (2004), Anderson (2008) and Anthony Martial (2015) claiming the prize, while Cesc Fabregas was a winner at Arsenal in 2006. Raheem Sterling (2014, Liverpool) and Mario Balotelli (2010, Manchester City) were the other two.

Golden Boy 40-Man Shortlist For 2016  Full List

Dele Alli (Tottenham)

Marco Asensio (Real Madrid)

Leon Bailey (Genk)

Riechedly Bazoer (Ajax)

Gabriel Boschilia (Monaco)

Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen) 

Carlos Fernandez (Sevilla)

Andreas Christensen (Borussia Monchengladbach)

Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich)

Ante Coric (Dinamo Zagreb)

Amadou Diawara (Napoli) 

Mahmoud Dahoud (Borussia Monchengladbach)

Danilo Barbosa (Benfica) 

Moussa Dembele (Celtic)

Ousmane Dembele (Dortmund)

Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan)

Breel Embolo (Schalke) 

Gabriel Barbosa (Inter Milan)

Aleksandr Golovin (CSKA Moscow) 

Goncalo Guedes (Benfica) 

Demarai Gray (Leicester)

Marko Grujic (Liverpool)

Alen Halilovic (Hamburg)

Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City)

 Alex Iwobi (Arsenal)

Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea)

Lucas Hernandez (Atletico Madrid)

Emanuel Mammana (Lyon)

Nathan (Vitesse)

Olivier Ntcham (Genoa)

Marcus Rashford (Manchester United)

Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich)

Jairo Riedewald (Ajax)

Ruben Neves (Porto)

Tonny Sanabria (Real Betis) 

Leroy Sane (Manchester City) 

Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen) 

Youri Tielemans (Anderlecht) 

Almamy Toure (Monaco)