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Leroy Sane
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Dele Alli
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Renato Sanches
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Marcus Rashford
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Detailed explanation-1: -Renato Sanches, 2016 This summer, he moved to PSG but is yet to play a full 90 minutes, instead becoming a rotational squad player for the Ligue 1 champions. Like Anderson and Martial, Sanches is another former Golden Boy winner who is yet to play at a World Cup.
Detailed explanation-2: -Creative midfielder Van der Vaart was named as the first ever winner of the Golden Boy despite repeated injury issues limiting his playing time at boyhood club Ajax and hampering him for much of his career.
Detailed explanation-3: -Messi, Pedri and Gavi Gavi became the third Blaugrana player to win the prize after Lionel Messi (2005) and Pedri (2021).
Detailed explanation-4: -Traditionally, a player can only win the award once, so once Golden Boy status has been achieved, the award ensures attention can move to other young players who deserve to be highlighted. This stops, for example, a star 17-year-old winning the award three years on the bounce.