Ghana forward Kudus Mohammed will battle it out with some of the young best footballers in Europe in this year’s 2020 Gold Boy Awards. 
Kudus Mohammed has proved viral for club FC Nordsjaelland this season with 9 goals so far in 19 league appearances as well as earning a debut Black Stars call up this year.
The Golden Ball Awards is an initiative by Italian newspaper Tuttosport which began in 2003 to reward best under 21 footballers who play in Europe.
Rafael van der Vaart in the history of the awards was the first winner 17 years ago, the likes of Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi, Cesc Fabregas Sergio Aguero, Paul Pogba, Raheem Sterling, Kylian Mbappe and Matheus de Light have all won the award.
Below is the complete list of players shortlisted for the award:
Maximilian James Aarons (Norwich), Abel Ruiz (Braga), Karim-David Adeyemi (RB Salzburg) Yacine Adli (Bordeaux), Lucien Agoumé (Inter Milan), Marley Ake (Marseille), Faustino Anjorin (Chelsea), Ethan Ampadu (RB Leipzig)
Angel Gomes (Manchester United), Adil Aouchiche (PSG), Benoît Badiashile (Monaco, Mitchel Bakker (PSG), Myron Boadu (AZ), Eduardo Camavinga (Rennes), Rayan Cherki (OL), Facundo Colidio (Sint-Truiden), David Colina (Hajduk Split), Trae Bailey Coyle (Arsenal)
Leon Dajaku (Bayern Munich), Jonathan David (La Gantoise), Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich), Karamoko Dembele (Celtic), Sergio Dest (Ajax), Tiago Djalo (Lille)
Felix Khonde Mambimbi (YB Bern), Antonio Marin (Dinamo Zagreb), Svetozar Markovic (Larisa), Alejandro José Méndez Marques (Juventus), Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal), Loïc Mbe Soh (PSG)
Juan Miranda (Schalke 04, FC Barcelona), Nehuén Pérez (Famalicão, Atlético de Madrid), Jean-Claude Junior Wa Dimbonda Nanda (Juventus), Michael Obafemi (Southampton), Paulinho (Bayer Leverkusen), Strahinja Pavlovic (Partizan, AS Monaco), Pedro Neto (Wolves)
Eduardo Quaresma (Sporting CP), Rafael Camacho (Sporting CP), Reinier (Real Madrid), Giovanni Reyna (Borussia Dortmund), Alessio Riccardi (AS Roma), Rodrygo (Real Madrid), Ionut-Cassian Rus (CFR Cluj)
Thomas Sabitzer (LASK), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), William Saliba (St Etienne), Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Ryan Sessegnon (Tottenham), Sergio Gomez (Borussia Dortmund)
Oliver Skipp (Tottenham), Mathías Soulé (Juventus), Yukinari Sugawara (AZ), Dominik Szoboszlai (RB Salzburg), Tomás Tavarez (Benfica), Tetê (Shakhtar Donetsk), Tiago Lopes (FC Porto), Sandro Tonali (Brescia), Ferrán Torres (Valencia FC)
Amad Diallo Traoré (Atalanta), Hamed Junior Traoré (Sassuolo), Lassina Traoré (Ajax), Heorhiy Tsitaishvili (Dynamo Kyiv), Sepp van den Berg (Liverpool), Yari Verschaeren (Anderlecht), Vinicius Jr (Real Madrid), Dusan Vlahovic (Fiorentina)
