Gavi and Real Madrid triumph in the ‘Golden Boy’

The newspaper ‘Tuttosport’ has made public this Friday in Palermo the awards of the twentieth edition of the ‘Golden Boy’ which will be delivered on November 7 in Turin. Real Madrid, which will be recognized in the person of Florentino Pérez, ‘Golden President’, Karim Benzema, ‘Golden Player’ and Carlo Ancelotti, ‘Golden Trainer’, as the best club in the world, will share the limelight with Fútbol Club Barcelona, since the trophy for the best Under-21 player has been won by Gavi, which takes over from the last two footballers to lift the trophy: Haaland (2020) and Pedri (2021). This has been confirmed today at a conference organized by ‘Tuttosport’ in the Sicilian capital. They weren’t the only winners. they were joined by Alexia Putellas as ‘Golden Player Woman’ and Paolo Maldini, as best sports director.

The Golden Boy awards are chosen thanks to the vote of a jury of journalists from all over the continent. But there is also a section for readers, who choose their own player through voting on the Italian newspaper’s website. In the first section, Beyond the election of Gavi, the great winner has been Real Madrid, as both its president and its coach have swept the votes and have been recognized both individually and as a club. In the second, that of the readers, the Spanish team has also been the protagonist, although finally Camavinga has been overtaken in the last section as the favorite of Internet users who have participated in the voting on the ‘Tuttosport’ website.

The Real Madrid midfielder, who led the popular votes until the last moment, was overtaken by the Pole Nicola Zalewski after his team, Roma, launched in recent days a very powerful campaign on social networks to mobilize the vote of Italian fans. Until Tuesday, Camavinga dominated with 36% of the votes, while Zalewski followed closely with 34%. But in the last 48 hours, after that intense campaign on social networks, the sorpasso has taken place and the Pole has been the player with the most votes by the readers of ‘Tuttosport’.

At the Gala on November 7 in Turin, the presence of the presidents of the three Superliga locomotive clubs is expected: Florentino Pérez, Joan Laporta and Andrea Agnelli. In the case of Florentino, the problem is that Real Madrid plays that same day against Rayo Vallecano in Vallecas, but ‘Tuttosport’ is doing the impossible to have the presence of the Madridista president, whom they want to do the honor of being the of Juventus, Agnelli, who will present him with the ‘Golden President’.