Top 10 wonderkids in world football as 2022 NXGN list is released
dailystar.co.ukKylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland are firmly established as the two hottest young players in world football, but there is a whole other generation of stars even younger than the PSG and Borussia Dortmund strikers.The expansion of modern football and social media means youngsters are hitting the big time younger than ever before.
Academies are competing to sign up the best talents, channelling them into increasingly professional set-ups. The results are there for all to see, with hype building around teenagers who are only just taking their first steps in the game.
Nowhere is that more evident than in the NXGN list, which is published by Goal every year. Last year Barca starlet Ansu Fati came out on top, ahead of Eduardo Camavinga, who has since joined Real Madrid and Dortmund’s Gio Reyna.
The latest list catalogues the 50 best players who were born on or after January 1, 2003 from all around the globe. Here are the top 10...Pepi is a 19-year-old US international who moved from FC Dallas to Augsburg in Germany in the January transfer window for a fee of £14.5million (€17.5m) to make him the most expensive American MLS player to sign for a European club.His move came off the back of an impressive 2021 when he became the youngest player to score an MLS hat-trick.
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