What Happened To The 21 Golden Boy Winners?

The Golden Boy is an award given to the best young player in Europe that year. Sometimes the Golden Boy winners live up to the hype and become football greats, but other times, things go horribly wrong and they never fulfill their talent, so we’re going to find out what happened to football's 21 Golden Boy winners since the award was created..

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[TopBinsFootyy]

Besides Messi, Who lived up to the hype the most? for me its Mbappe

[Drunken_Master]

If you want to ruin your career, sign for Man Utd

[ercapo]

Even if Van der Vaart didn’t become a constant World Class Player I still think you did him a bit wrong here, as he managed to get 109 caps (25 goals) for the dutch national team and is found to be a legend at the HSV in Germany… also he got nominated for the Ballon d‘Or in 2008, managed to play for Real Madrid and had some pretty successful years at Tottenham too. So he might not have become an all time great but he was one of the best COMs in the world for a couple of years still

[mkdadon]

Messi is basically the most successful Golden Boy winner ever. While we're still waiting to see more of Haaland, Gavi, Pedri, Mbappe(even though he's won a world cup) & Bellingham

[Kingston]

How is it that Mourinho had to deal with both Balotelli AND Pogba 😂

[vipulsirohi]

It's a shame that there are so many misfits in this list and yet was never given to players like Cristiano, Neymar, Suarez, James Rodriguez, Bale, Vinicius Jr or Rodrygo despite being young and having more successful season

[Tooxiiic]

What a coincidence that all players (besides Rooney) had a Downfall after joining United 😂

[fringasbsj]

Great vídeo. 17:50 was crazy, Iniesta reference turning into Gavi's part was smooth well done.
Ps- As a Benfica fan I really feel like both Sanches and Félix could've already accomplished much more.

[aryansood]

Messi won the golden boy..i didnt even knew that...from golden boy to greatest player of all time..what a journey🐐🐐

[alrangelal]

Isco was a baller. Always felt gutted he didn't sign for Barça, who was a better fit for him imo.

He surely doesn't regret going to Madrid since he won literally everything multiple times.

[mohamedabdelrohman]

Man united is the biggest tomb of talents

[donaldkaija]

Anderson was almost literally picked from the streets becuase of his talent and put immediately in the first team, so it was not really fair to him. He should have been trained before he got into the first team.

[Malam_NightYoru]

"he didn't fulfill his golden boy expectation" while talking about the netherlands legend Van der Vaart. You cannot just look at his club performance. In Netherlands national team, he was a menace, and performed incredibly over the peak of his carrer.

[dawnfyre]

Calling the 2014 WC winner the most important goal in German history is such a stretch considering that Germany won 4 world cups anyway and espicially considering the importance of the '54 World Cup for early Post-War Germany.

[jersonricardo]

Anderson one is kinda unreal, it just shows how good of a coach Sir Alex was

[Walshy]

The 2005 winner looks like he has decent potential

[Chhetrysushil]

It's sad how Musiala didn't win last year golden boy award as his goal helped bayern to win league, also his performance was far better than jude jude is performing this season but last season it was musiala's award

[riichobamin]

When Kaka was at Madrid, CR7 and Messi were above him as footballers.

[hristiyanhristov]

Lol, Messi didn't live up to the hype, Messi made the hype unfair for other footballers. What Messi achieved no hype can ever suggest. I am a Real fan, but let's get... real.

[oxymmetry]

Sad to see the list end ❤.... great video... I dont normally like (I forget) or subscribe (only deserving channels) but this video got me liking and subscribing.... excellent work, well done