Barcelona star Pedri wins 2021 Golden Boy, All-time winners .
The Spanish midfielder has been recognised after an outstanding breakthrough season at Camp Nou.
Barcelona starlet Pedri has won the 2021 Golden Boy award.
Italian newspaper Tuttosport hand out the prestigious prize to the best player aged 21 or under from Europe's top-tier leagues every year, with Pedri picking up the mantle from 2020 winner Erling Haaland.
edri picked 318 points in the voting, 199 points more than second placed Jude Bellingham on 119, the biggest difference between the winner and runner-up in the award's history.
Pedri played 52 competitive games in 2020 year,
Counting international games, he played 73 games, including Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics, where he was a silver medallist, he played more games than anyone else in Europe’s top leagues.
Pedro González López thus follows on from Erling Haaland, last year’s winner, and has also become the first player ever to be nominated for all of the Ballon d’Or, Kopa Trophy and Golden Boy in the same year. Can anyone stop Pedri from going on to even greater things? It’s unlikely!
All-Time Golden Boy Winners List 2003 - 2021.
Van der Vaart was the first winner of the trophy in 2003.
The Dutch have been succeeded by the following list of players:
2003 -- Rafael van der Vaart - Netherlands
2004 -- Wayne Rooney - England
2005 -- Lionel Messi - Argentina
2006 -- Cesc Fabregas - Spain
2007 -- Sergio Aguero - Argentina
2008 -- Anderson - Brazil
2009 -- Alexandre Pato - Brazil
2010 -- Mario Balotelli - Italy
2011 -- Mario Gotze - Germany
2012 -- Isco - Spain
2013 -- Paul Pogba - France
2014 -- Raheem Sterling - England
2015 -- Anthony Martial - France
2016 -- Renato Sanches - Portugal
2017 -- Kylian Mbappe - France
2018 -- Matthijs de Ligt Netherlands
2019 -- Joao Felix - Portugal
2020 -- Erling Haaland - Norway
2021 -- Pedri - Spain
2022
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