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Brazilian Vinicius Junior, Real Madrid striker, is part of the quintet of finalists announced Wednesday for the 16th Golden Boy Award, awarded by the Italian sports newspaper "Tuttosport" to the best player of the year under 21 years .
Vinicius will fight for the prize with the Dutch Justin Kliuvert (Rome) and Matthijs De Ligt (Ajax Amsterdam), the English Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) and the Italian Patrick Cutrone (Milan), reported " Tuttosport. "
The prize-giving ceremony for French laureate Kylian Mbappé will take place on 17 December in Turin, where the organizers will unveil the most voted footballer by a jury of 35 journalists from twenty European countries.
Vinicius, born July 12, 2000, this year saw his first season in Europe at Real Madrid, after being shown in the Brazilian Flamengo and having scored seven goals in 38 games.
After having little importance with Julen Lopetegui on the bench of Real Madrid, Vinicius scored his first goal with the team first on Nov. 3 and Santiago Solari in front, with a shot that is over between the stitches after the deflection of a defender and that put the 2-0 endorsed to Valladolid.
Alexander-Arnold, finalist of the Champions League last year, is one of the five nominees having made the most international tours. Liverpool was beaten 1 to 3 against Real Madrid Zinedine Zidane.
Cutrone is in the running for the award after scoring 18 goals in his first season with the first Milan team, while Kluivert scored 10 goals in Eredivisie with Ajax, before having a difficult adaptation this year in Rome.
De Ligt is at 19 years old one of the best young defenders of Europe and is the protagonist of excellent performances both in the Dutch league and in the Champions League, where his Ajax is already in the second round .
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