Kylian Mbappe wins Golden Boy award but confusion over third place as Marcus Rashford beats Gabriel Jesus
Rashford was initially revealed to have missed out on the top three
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Your support makes all the difference.Kylian Mbappe has been confirmed as the winner of the Golden Boy award for the best playing under the age of 21 in Europe, although there is confusion about who came third.
The Paris Saint-Germain striker, who joined on loan from Monaco this summer ahead of a £160m deal next year, has four goals and four assists this season as well as helping his former club to the Champions League semi-finals and the Ligue 1 title.
He is now one third of one of the most terrifying front threes in Europe alongside Neymar and Edinson Cavani and joins the likes of Lionel Messi, Wayne Rooney and Paul Pogba who have also won the award.
Mbappe beat Barcelona’s Ousmane Dembele to win but Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford appears to have beaten City’s Gabriel Jesus into third, despite not being including in the three finalists revealed last week.
Mbappe won with 291 votes ahead of Dembele’s 149 but Tuttosport, who said it was Jesus joining the other wtwo in the final, reported that Rashford received 76 votes, with the Brazilian receiving just 72.
AC Milan goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma came in fifth with Borussia Dortmund’s Christian Pulisic in sixth.
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