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TURIN, ITALY – APRIL 12: Kenan Yildiz of Juventus celebrates scoring his staff’s second objective throughout the Serie A match between Juventus and Lecce at Allianz Stadium on April 12, 2025 in Turin, Italy. (Photograph by Valerio Pennicino/Getty Pictures)
Juventus star Kenan Yildiz has been included among the many nominees for the 2025 Kopa Trophy as a part of the Ballon d’Or awards.
Yildiz amongst Kopa Trophy nominees
France Soccer, who organise the Ballon d’Or awards, are saying the nominees for the 2025 version on Thursday, forward of the grand ceremony on the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on September 22.
The primary nominees to be introduced within the males’s classes was the Kopa Trophy, which is awarded to the world’s greatest participant aged underneath 21.
Yildiz, who offered 12 objectives and 9 assists throughout 52 appearances for the Previous Girl final season, is the one consultant from Serie A this 12 months.
He’s nominated alongside his former Juventus Subsequent Gen teammate Dean Huijsen, who was offered to AFC Bournemouth originally of the 2024-25 marketing campaign and impressed a lot along with his performances that he earned a big-money transfer to Actual Madrid lower than a 12 months later.
The opposite nominees for the 2025 Kopa Trophy are: Ayyoub Bouaddi of Lille, Pau Cubarsi of Barcelona, Need Doue of Paris Saint-Germain, Estevao, now at Chelsea, Arsenal’s Myles Lewis-Skelly, Rodrigo Mora from Porto, Joao Neves from PSG and final 12 months’s winner, who stays the favorite this 12 months, Lamine Yamal.
2025 Kopa Trophy nominees
Ayyoub Bouaddi (Lille)
Pau Cubarsi (Barcelona)
Need Doue (PSG)
Estevao (Chelsea, Previously Palmeiras)
Dean Huijsen (Actual Madrid, previously AFC Bournemouth)
Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal)
Rodrigo Mora (Porto)
Joao Neves (PSG)
Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)
Kenan Yildiz (Juventus)
Listed here are our 2025 Kopa Trophy nominees! #ballondor pic.twitter.com/N9SqGPrhmH
— Ballon d’Or (@ballondor) August 7, 2025
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