Euro 2024 winner Lamine Yamal leads a 10-man shortlist for the Kopa Trophy that additionally consists of two Manchester United children.
The trophy – awarded to the perfect international participant below the age of 21 in 2024 – might be handed out on the Ballon d’Or ceremony on October 28.
Yamal is the favorite after a outstanding breakthrough season that noticed him rating 16 targets for Barcelona after which develop into an integral a part of the Spain group that triumphed in Germany.
His Barca team-mate Pau Cubarsi was additionally nominated, as was one other star of Euro 2024, Arda Guler of Actual Madrid and Turkey.
United are represented by Kobbie Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho. Mainoo got here from nowhere to develop into a key cog within the membership’s midfield, together with his performances incomes him a spot within the England squad for the Euros.
Garnacho was part of the Argentina squad that lifted the Copa America in July.
Additionally nominated had been RB Salzburg striker Karim Konate, who scored 20 targets for the Austrian membership final season and is a daily within the Ivory Coast squad, Joao Neves who impressed for Benfica earlier than becoming a member of Paris Saint-Germain, his PSG team-mate Warren Zaire-Emery, Manchester Metropolis’s Brazilian winger Savinho and Bayern Munich winger Mathys Tel.
Actual Madrid and England midfielder Jude Bellingham received the award final season.
Voici les nommés pour le Trophée Kopa 2024 !
🇪🇸 Pau Cubarsi
🇦🇷 Alejandro Garnacho
🇹🇷 Arda Güler
🇨🇮 Karim Konaté
🏴 Kobbie Mainoo
🇵🇹 Joao Neves
🇧🇷 Savinho
🇫🇷 Mathys Tel
🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal
🇫🇷 Warren Zaïre-Emery#ballondor #trophéekopa pic.twitter.com/frj0U5MRd7— L’ÉQUIPE (@lequipe) September 4, 2024