Hungarian Players Nominated for Prestigious Golden Boy Award
Dárdai Bence and Pécsi Ármin nominated among 100 young football talents in Europe.
The Golden Boy Award, which annually recognizes the best under-21 football player playing in Europe, has included two Hungarian players in its nominations for 2025. Dárdai Bence, a midfielder for Wolfsburg, and Pécsi Ármin, goalkeeper for the Puskás Akadémia, have emerged as candidates for this distinguished accolade.
Established in 2003 by the Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport, the award is decided by a panel of forty prominent football journalists, each allowed to vote for five players, assigning them points in quantities of 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1.
The full list of the top 100 young footballers has been made public on Tuttosport's website, where fans also have the opportunity to cast their votes.
Pécsi is currently ranked 47th, while Dárdai holds the 72nd position on the list.
Each month, twenty names will be removed from the list as it narrows down to the final twenty players by October.
Among the top ten players on the list are notable talents, including Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsí from FC Barcelona, Desiré Doue and Warren Zaire-Emery from Paris Saint-Germain, as well as Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri from Arsenal.
It’s worth noting that Yamal is ineligible to win the award again, having claimed victory the previous year.
Past recipients of the Golden Boy Award feature some of football's biggest names, including Lionel Messi (2003), Wayne Rooney (2004), Mario Götze (2011), Kylian Mbappé (2017), Erling Haaland (2020), and Jude Bellingham (2024).
Established in 2003 by the Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport, the award is decided by a panel of forty prominent football journalists, each allowed to vote for five players, assigning them points in quantities of 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1.
The full list of the top 100 young footballers has been made public on Tuttosport's website, where fans also have the opportunity to cast their votes.
Pécsi is currently ranked 47th, while Dárdai holds the 72nd position on the list.
Each month, twenty names will be removed from the list as it narrows down to the final twenty players by October.
Among the top ten players on the list are notable talents, including Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsí from FC Barcelona, Desiré Doue and Warren Zaire-Emery from Paris Saint-Germain, as well as Myles Lewis-Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri from Arsenal.
It’s worth noting that Yamal is ineligible to win the award again, having claimed victory the previous year.
Past recipients of the Golden Boy Award feature some of football's biggest names, including Lionel Messi (2003), Wayne Rooney (2004), Mario Götze (2011), Kylian Mbappé (2017), Erling Haaland (2020), and Jude Bellingham (2024).
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