Gavi, favorite for a Kopa award with several contenders

This Monday from the theatre of Châtalet of Paris, will be the gala of the Balloon of Gold and also will know to the winner of the Trophy Kopa. Gavi (FC Barcelona), Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) and Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund) are the main candidates to carry the prize in this opportunity like the best young footballer of the past season to world-wide level.

It is an award that from four years ago awards the French magazine 'France Football' to the best lower footballer of 21 years of the world, trying like this compete with the prize 'Golden Boy', which rewards exactly the same. This prize carries the name of the first winner of the Balloon of Gold, the French footballer Raymond Kopa and the first in winning it in the 2018 was Kylian Mbappé and to the following year was the turn of the Dutch player of Ligt.

Because of the pandemia in the year 2020 did not deliver the award and in the 2021 the Barcelona midfield player, Pedri heaved with the trophy, achieving like this a milestone for the Spanish football that this year could repeat if Pablo Gavi results to be the winner, as all does to indicate. The mediocampista of 18 years consolidated in the first team of the Barça and also of Spain, all this when it still did not fulfil the majority of age.

Camavinga By his part comes of his first course like footballer of the Madrid. The French arrived like a project to future and overcoat in the second half of the season answered of good way to Carlo Ancelotti every time that it touched him add minutes from the bench. Bellingham, the more 'experienced' of the favourites, has not given still the jump to a 'big' but surely was the one who more time has consolidated in an eleven headline in the elite of the European football.

The appointment for the culés

The gala of the Balloon of Gold 2022 will be able to see in direct in Spain through the channel MEGA, pertaining to the group Atresmedia. The ceremony also will broadcast it DAZN, whereas, enTwitch, will be available in the channel of Ibai Flat. In the gala also will award logically the Balloon of Gold, so much masculine like feminine, in addition to the prize to the best archer of the world.

The list of the ten nominated is:

Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund) (Germany, 2002)

Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund) (United Kingdom, 2003)

Eduardo Camavinga (Real Madrid) (France, 2002)

Pablo Gavi (Barcelona) (Spain, 2004)

Ryan Gravenberch (Bayern of Munich) (Low Countries, 2002)

Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint-Germain) (Portugal, 2002)

Jamal Musiala (Bayern of Munich) (Germany, 2003)

Joko Gvardiol (Leipzig) (Croatia, 2002)

Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) (United Kingdom, 2001)

Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen) (Germany, 2003)