There are many teenagers in world football who are catching the eye while playing for some of Europe’s biggest clubs’ reserve teams. They are all set to make their mark in football and have already started to get a few minutes on the pitch as well.
As we head into 2021, those talented youngsters will get more opportunities to showcase their potential to the football world.
UEFA have now released a list of 50 young footballers to watch out for in 2021. Let’s have a look at them with their nationality, age and respective clubs:
- Paulos Abraham (SWE, 18 – AIK)
- Tyler Adams (USA, 20 – RB Leipzig)
- Sergio Arribas (ESP, 19 – Real Madrid)
- Mitchel Bakker (NED, 20 – Paris)
- Jude Bellingham (ENG, 17 – Dortmund)
- Jens Cajuste (SWE, 21 – Midtjylland)
- Riccardo Calafiori (ITA, 18 – Roma)
- David Carmo (POR, 21 – Braga)
- Charles De Ketelaere (BEL, 19 – Club Brugge)
- Yusuf Demir (AUT, 17 – Rapid Wien)
- Amad Diallo (CIV, 18 – Atalanta/Manchester United)
- Mohammed Diomande (CIV, 18 – Nordsjælland)
- Igor Diveev (RUS, 21 – CSKA Moskva)
- Jeremy Doku (BEL, 18 – Rennes)
- Radu Drăgușin (ROU, 18 – Juventus)
- Roman Evgenyev (RUS, 21 – Dinamo Moskva)
- Wahidullah ‘Wahid’ Faghir (DEN, 17 – Vejle)
- Wesley Fofana (FRA, 19 – Leicester)
- Gianluca Frabotta (ITA, 21, Juventus)
- Amine Gouiri (FRA, 20 – Nice)
- Ryan Gravenberch (NED, 18 – Ajax)
- Joško Gvardiol (CRO, 18 – Dinamo Zagreb, on loan from Leipzig)
- Jens Petter Hauge (NOR, 21 – AC Milan)
- Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson (ISL, 17 – IFK Norrköping)
- Curtis Jones (ENG, 19 – Liverpool)
- Boubacar Kamara (FRA, 21 – Marseille)
- Orkun Kökçü (TUR, 19 – Feyenoord)
- Ladislav Krejčí (CZE, 21 – Sparta Praha)
- Takefusa Kubo (JAP, 19 – Villarreal, on loan from Real Madrid)
- Marash Kumbulla (ALB, 20 – Roma)
- Stanislav Magkeev (RUS, 21 – Lokomotiv Moskva)
- Daniel Maldini (ITA, 19 – AC Milan)
- Giorgi Mamardashvili (GEO, 20 – Locomotive Tbilisi)
- Nuno Mendes (POR, 18 – Sporting CP)
- Youssoufa Moukoko (GER, 16 – Dortmund)
- Yunus Musah (USA, 18 – Valencia)
- Jamal Musiala (ENG, 17 – Bayern)
- Noah Okafor (SUI, 20 – Salzburg)
- Marcus Holmgren Pedersen (NOR, 20 – Molde)
- Pedri (ESP, 18 – Barcelona)
- Abdallah Sima, (SEN, 19 – Slavia Praha)
- Kamaldeen Sulemana (GHA, 18 – Nordsjælland)
- Ravil Tagir (TUR, 17 – İstanbul Başakşehir)
- Malick Thiaw (FIN, 19 – Schalke)
- Anatolii Trubin (UKR, 19 – Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Christos Tzolis (GRE, 18 – PAOK)
- Fábio Vieira (POR, 20 – FC Porto)
- Owen Wijndal (NED, 21 – AZ)
- Florian Wirtz (GER, 17 – Leverkusen)
- Illia Zabarnyi (UKR, 18 – Dynamo Kyiv)
According to you, who is most likely to catch the eye of the football world in 2021? Let us know in the comments down below.
