Kenan Yildiz named Serie A Rising Star of the Season

It has been one other extremely disappointing season on the entire for Juventus, however Kenan Yildiz has been an plain vibrant spot amongst the entire different doom and gloom that has surrounded the membership.

He was acknowledged as such forward of the ultimate weekend of the 2025-26 season.

Yildiz was named Serie A’s Rising Star of the Season on Friday, a deserved award for a participant who has proven to be certainly one of Europe’s brightest Beneath-21 skills effectively earlier than he truly turned 21. Despite the fact that Yildiz’s twenty first birthday arrived a few weeks in the past, Yildiz has racked up the type of numbers that few gamers his age have executed at a storied membership like Juventus. He has been certainly one of Serie A’s main aim scorers for a lot of the season, and has been the hub of a few of good that an in any other case irritating Juve assault has executed over the previous 9 months.

Earlier winners of the award embody Como’s Nico Paz final season in addition to Nicolo Fagioli, Dusan Vlahovic and Dejan Kulusevski.

Yildiz, in his second season carrying the No. 10 at Juventus, results in staff in each targets (10) and assists (6) through the Serie A marketing campaign. These are each profession highs — and will very effectively be larger if not for the younger Turkiye star coping with knee irritation for a lot of the final two months. Yildiz has additionally performed a career-high 2,825 minutes in Serie A this 12 months — which, once more, would have been even larger if not for his current knee situation.

With all that stated, Yildiz is clearly the most effective younger participant within the league alongside Nico Paz. Yildiz is the one participant to win the Rising Star of the Month award twice this season. Nico Paz has solely gained it as soon as. Does that imply it’s the be-all, end-all for this award? No, after all not, but it surely doesn’t damage, proper?

Inter Milan fullback Federico Dimarco was named Serie A Participant of the Yr, with teammate Lautaro Martinez being named Serie A’s finest ahead through the 2025-26 season. Como sensation Nico Paz, typically in competitors with Yildiz for the most effective teenager within the league distinction, was named Serie A’s prime midfielder. Roma’s Mile Svilar earned prime goalkeeper honors for the second straight season; Cagliari’s Marco Palestra, on mortgage from Atalanta, was Serie A’s Finest Defender of the Season and Inter’s Cristian Chivu gained out over Como’s Cesc Fabregas for the supervisor of the 12 months award.