Soccer: Top 100 young players, 2010

[lefty]

Top 100 Young Players in World Football, 2010 (Don Balon)

4 Nov, 2010 Jonathan F (http://www.just-football.com/author/Just%20Football/) Africa (http://www.just-football.com/category/africa/), Asia / Oceania (http://www.just-football.com/category/asia-oceania/), Latest (http://www.just-football.com/category/latest/), South America (http://www.just-football.com/category/south-america/)
http://www.just-football.com/soccer-blog/wp-content/themes/majalah/timthumb.php?src=wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Don-Balon.jpg&h=260&w=600&zc=1 Here on Just Football we like to keep a keen eye on youth talent in football and emerging young stars of the game, as we did at the Under-20 World Cup in 2009 (http://www.just-football.com/2009/10/10-best-young-players-under-20-world/) and the Under-19 European Championships (http://www.just-football.com/2010/08/star-gazing-6-best-young-players-under-19-european-championships-2010/) in France earlier this year. So it was with great interest that we pored over highly respected Spanish magazine Don Balon’s most recent, eagerly anticipated Top 100 Young Players List for 2010. To meet Don Balon’s (http://www.donbalon.com/web/) criteria all players listed had to be born after January 1st 1989 (21 or under on January 1st 2010) and, of course, pretty decent with a ball at their feet.
Without dressing it up too much here is the list, in alphabetical order:
Top 100:
Dominic Adiyiah (Reggina)
Toby Alderweireld (Ajax)
Hamdan Al Kamali (Al Wahda)
Jano Ananidze (Spartak Moscow)
Andre Ayew (Marseille)
Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina)
Holger Badstuber (Bayern)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Mario Balotelli (http://www.just-football.com/2008/04/good-player-guide-5-mario-balotelli/)(Manchester City)
Ben Sahar (Hapoel Tel Aviv)
Bojan (FC Barcelona)
Bo-Kyung Kim (Oita Trinita)
Ryad Boudebouz (Sochaux) http://forum.dzfoot.com/style_emoticons/default/gazouza.gif


Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City)
Breno (Bayern Munich)
Sergio Canales (Real Madrid)
Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez (Standard)
Luc Castaignos (Feyenoord)
Diego Contento (Bayern Munich)
Phillippe Coutinho (Inter)
David De Gea (Atletico Madrid)
Alvaro Domínguez (Atletico Madrid)
Giovanni Dos Santos (Tottenham)
Douglas Costa (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow)
Gueïda Fofana (Le Havre)
Paulo Henrique Ganso (Santos)
Giuliano (http://www.just-football.com/tag/giuliano/) (Internacional)
Maxime Gonalons (Lyon)
Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund)
Antoine Griezmann (Real Sociedad)
Eden Hazard (Lille)
Jordan Henderson (Sunderland)
Markus Henriksen (Rosenborg)
Abel Hernández (Palermo)
Ander Herrera (Real Zaragoza)
Lewis Holtby (Mainz 05)
James Rodriguez (Porto)
Stefan Jovetic (Fiorentina)
Vaclav Kadlec (Sparta Prague)
Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund)
Gael Kakuta (http://www.just-football.com/2010/08/star-gazing-6-best-young-players-under-19-european-championships-2010/) (Chelsea)
Alan Kardec (Benfica)
Simon Kjaer (Wolfsburg)
Maksim Koval (Dinamo Kiev)
Ismail Köybasi (Besiktas)
Toni Kroos (Bayern)
Manuel Lanzini (River Plate)
Adem Ljajic (Fiorentina)
Dejan Lovren (Lyon)
Romelu Lukaku (http://www.just-football.com/2010/03/good-player-guide-romelu-lukaku/) (Anderlecht)
Lukman Haruma (Monaco)
Federico Macheda (Manchester United)
Guido Marilungo (Sampdoria)
Marko Marin (Werder Bremen)
Emmanuel Mayuka (Young Boys)
Thomas Müller (Bayern)
Iker Muniain (Athletic Bilbao)
Marc Muniesa (http://www.just-football.com/2009/11/7-best-young-players-u-17-world-cup/) (FC Barcelona)
Ezequiel Muñoz (Palermo)
Yann M’vila (Rennes)
Tomas Necid (CSKA Moscow)
Neymar (Santos)
Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos)
Nikolas N’Koulou (Monaco)
Javier Pastore (Palermo)
Alexandre Pato (Milan)
Pablo Piatti (Almería)
Miralem Pjanic (http://www.just-football.com/2009/09/miralem-pjanic-lyons-new-juninho/)(Lyon)
Rafael da Silva (Manchester United)
Yaroslav Rakytskiy (Shakhtar)
Renan Diego (Cruzeiro)
Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Emmanuel Rivière (Saint-Etienne)
Jack Rodwell (Everton)
Jose Rondón (Málaga)
Victor Ruiz (Espanyol)
Mamadou Sakho (PSG)
Davide Santon (Inter)
Georgy Shennikov (CSKA Moskow)
Xherdan Shaqiri (Basel)
Harmeet Singh (Valerenga)
Moussa Sissoko (Toulouse)
Robin Soder (IFK Göteborg)
Miroslav Stoch (Fenerbahçe)
Yannis Tafer (Toulouse)
Thiago (FC Barcelona)
Lacina Traoré (CFR Cluj)
Ricky Van Wolfswinkel (Utrecht)
Carlos Vela (Arsenal)
Jelle Vossen (Genk)
Ante Vukusic (Hadjuk Split)
Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
Vladimir Weiss (Rangers)
Georginio Wijnaldum (Feyenoord)
Jack Wilshere (Arsenal)
Danny Wilson (Liverpool)
Siyanda Xulu (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Andriy Yarmolenko (Dinamo Kiev)
Sercan Yildirim (Bursaspor)

[TDMVPDPOY]

that list is horseshit, balotelli that guy is hype just like every young black color player, he only has pace atm not skillset at all...


didnt gareth bale just exposed inter 2 weeks ago in the EUCL?

the only good thing about this list is to keep track of young players and if ur a nerd on player manager type of games...

[Sense]

lol the fact that the list doesn't include Javier Hernandez makes it funny.... and it's not really being biased.. the guy is still young and has scored quite a few goals for Manchester.. :/


I mean the list has Vela and Dos Santos and they ride the bench so bad...

[SAtown]

lol the fact that the list doesn't include Javier Hernandez makes it funny.... and it's not really being biased.. the guy is still young and has scored quite a few goals for Manchester.. :/


That's what I was thinking too, until I re-read the OP. The title for the article should be "Top 100 players born after Jan 1st 1989" or something like that. Apparently 22 isn't "young" anymore.

And he shits all over pretty much everyone on this list (forwards at least)

[TDMVPDPOY]

I DUNNO FELLAS

chichirato hasnt impress me much with his scoring...most of them are like tim cahill goals...right time at the right place situations when ball bounces of the goalie and in front of him....

[SAtown]

Eh maybe that's true, but he's the first player since Hugo Sanchez that we can finally get excited about. Hopefully he has a bright future with a big club like ManU

[resistanze]

that list is horseshit, balotelli that guy is hype just like every young black color player, he only has pace atm not skillset at all...


didnt gareth bale just exposed inter 2 weeks ago in the EUCL?

the only good thing about this list is to keep track of young players and if ur a nerd on player manager type of games...

What does Bale performing well against Inter have anything to do with Balotelli, or was your shit lost in translation?

[resistanze]

Yeah, the cutoff must've been 1989 :lol

[TDMVPDPOY]

What does Bale performing well against Inter have anything to do with Balotelli, or was your shit lost in translation?

ur an idiot man

i know balotelli plays for mancity now and his not impressive for either teams

bale on the other hand did more in one game then balotelli has done for his career...

[SAtown]

To be fair, Balotelli himself did a bit of "pwning Inter" by disrupting the shit out of the team

[resistanze]

ur an idiot man

i know balotelli plays for mancity now and his not impressive for either teams

bale on the other hand did more in one game then balotelli has done for his career...

Bale is on the list too, so I don't see your point how Bale doing well against Inter should invalidate Balotelli from the list. I doubt you can find 100 players under the age of 22 better than Balotelli.

Had to ask since typically say retarded shit so I was just wanted to make sure.

[Phenomanul]

I DUNNO FELLAS

chichirato hasnt impress me much with his scoring...most of them are like tim cahill goals...right time at the right place situations when ball bounces of the goalie and in front of him....

Some of that is true... but that goal he scored against Valencia in the CL and his backward header against Stoke City 2 weeks ago were no walk in the park...

[SAtown]

Yea, goals with the occipital lobe should be taken into consideration. Not every day you see that

[DAF86]

Chicharito is the real deal, imho.

I've seen him score a lot of great goals, what happens is that he makes most of them look easy 'cause he has great ball control, also don't ever underestimate the ability of beign in the right place at the right time.

[TDMVPDPOY]

anyone here keep tabs on argie league?

watever happen to that big time player at river plate late in the 90s i thought he was going to make his big transfer move to a big euro club

Andrés D'Alessandro << this fella what happen to him

[DAF86]

anyone here keep tabs on argie league?

watever happen to that big time player at river plate late in the 90s i thought he was going to make his big transfer move to a big euro club

Andrés D'Alessandro << this fella what happen to him

Aimar, Saviola?

Aimar spent a lot of time in Valencia, won the league twice as the playmaker of that team and got to the CL final once. He played in two WCs. Now he's playing in Benfica.

Saviola played for Barcelona and Real Madrid but didn't have much success with either team, in Sevilla he won the UEFA league as a starter and played the '06 WC as a starter too. Now he's playing in Benfica with Aimar.

[monosylab1k]

Where's Freddy Adu at?

[TDMVPDPOY]

sevilla or villareal has alot of washedup argy players at the end of their careers...

[DAF86]

sevilla or villareal has alot of washedup argy players at the end of their careers...

So, who were you talking about?

[Libri]

Yea, goals with the occipital lobe should be taken into consideration. Not every day you see that

Some are calling that goal, "The Chicharina".

[SAtown]

Where's Freddy Adu at?

Last time I ever heard anything about him he was at Benfica (Portugal) but he's been loaned out a ton since then. Damn that hype train didn't last long :lol

I remember when ESPN hyped him up to be the next Pele.

[Penya]

Thiago Alcántara (barça) is gonna be fucking great. He's a mix between his father and Xavi.

[lefty]

Yeah, that list is a bit shitty, but I dont give a fuck, there is a fellow Algerian in there :D

I mean, an Algerian not playing for France :stirpot:

[TDMVPDPOY]

so i was lookin at the wiki pages of river plate and boca juniors....

i know boca gets alot of media exposure through the international games they play against when euro v sth america team super league or whatever its called...

now just lookin at its past players...seems like river plate produces more euro ready players then boca....and on national side i assume?

lol boca :D:D

[velik_m]

Yeah, that list is a bit shitty, but I dont give a fuck, there is a fellow Algerian in there :D

I mean, an Algerian not playing for France :stirpot:

Does an Algerian national team even have any players born in Algeria?

[lefty]

Does an Algerian national team even have any players born in Algeria?
To answer your question yes :eyebrows:

But the real question is: what would the Frenchies do without all their African immigrants?

And what if Zidane didnt play for France?


It's a 2 way street, so I'm not going to feel bad if a good portion of our players were born in France

The hypocrit Haters can go fuck themselves

[DAF86]

so i was lookin at the wiki pages of river plate and boca juniors....

i know boca gets alot of media exposure through the international games they play against when euro v sth america team super league or whatever its called...

now just lookin at its past players...seems like river plate produces more euro ready players then boca....and on national side i assume?

lol boca :D:D

River is the winningest team in Argentina (33 vs 18 from Boca I think) so is only logical for us to have the most representants in the NT and Europe. :hat