haaland kids jersey Real Madrid winger Rodrygo and SGS Essen midfielder Lena Oberdorf have been named the winners ofGoal’sNxGn 2020 awards after being voted the world’s most talented teenage footballers.
Journalists from across Goal’s 43 editions voted on the brightest wonderkids in the game, born on or after January 1, 2001.
Previous winners of the men’s award include Jadon Sancho, Justin Kluivert and Gianluigi Donnarumma, with Rodrygo hoping to emulate their successas he continues his development.
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Signed from Santos for€45 million (￡39m/$52m) in the summer of 2018, Rodrygo eventually joined up with Madrid last summer and has made quite an impact on Zinedine Zidane’s first team during his maiden campaign in Spain.
He needed just 93 seconds to score a debut goal for Los Blancos before becoming the youngest ever player to score a perfect hat-trick in the Champions League when netting a treble against Galatasaray in early November.
That form saw him earn a first call-up to the senior Brazil football kits childrens squad, with the player once dubbed the ‘new Neymar’ earning his first cap against Argentina in November.