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Top 10, in no order:
Ousmane Dembele (Paris St-Germain, France)
Gianluigi Donnarumma (Paris St-Germain/Manchester City, Italy)
Achraf Hakimi (Paris St-Germain, Morocco)
Kylian Mbappe (Real Madrid, France)
Cole Palmer (Chelsea, England)
Nuno Mendes (Paris St-Germain, Portugal)
Raphinha (Barcelona, Brazil)
Mohamed Salah (Liverpool, Egypt)
Vitinha (Paris St-Germain, Portugal)
Lamine Yamal (Barcelona, Spain)
Some amazing ballers there! I have no idea how I'd go about determining which one deserves this. Crazy.
Definitely. Also, it seems weird to have an individual trophy for a collective sport
Right? Good point!
And here's who finished between 11th and 30th in the men's award.
Pedri (Barcelona, Spain)
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Napoli/Paris St-Germain, Georgia)
Harry Kane (Bayern Munich, England)
Desire Doue (Paris St-Germain, France)
Viktor Gyokeres (Sporting/Arsenal, Sweden)
Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid, Brazil)
Robert Lewandowski (Barcelona, Poland)
Scott McTominay (Napoli, Scotland)
Joao Neves (Paris St-Germain, Portugal)
Lautaro Martinez (Inter Milan, Argentina)
Serhou Guirassy (Borussia Dortmund, Guinea)
Alexis Mac Allister (Liverpool, Argentina)
Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid, England)
Fabian Ruiz (Paris St-Germain, Spain)
Denzel Dumfries (Inter Milan, Netherlands)
Erling Haaland (Man City, Norway)
Declan Rice (Arsenal, England)
Virgil van Dijk (Liverpool, Netherlands)
Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen/Liverpool, Germany)
Michael Olise (Bayern Munich, France)
Lamine Yamal bags the first prize of the night - the men's Kopa Trophy, for best-performing player in the world under the age of 21.
It's a Barcelona double as 19-year-old forward Vicky Lopez wins the women's Kopa Trophy.
Is anyone watching this live? I remember last year was quite long and cringy, couldn't find a stream to watch it this year