{"id":119076,"date":"2021-08-25T06:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T06:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119076"},"modified":"2021-08-25T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T08:00:21","slug":"barcelona-starlet-pedri-remains-favourite-for-2021-golden-boy-as-list-shortens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=119076","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona starlet Pedri remains favourite for 2021 Golden Boy as list shortens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Barcelona midfielder Pedri remains the standout contender for the 2021 Golden Boy after the shortlist was cut from 100 to 60.<br \/>\nPedri, 18, was a revelation last term after his move from Las Palmas. The teenager\u00a0performed in\u00a0a leading 78 games since last September for club and country, after also making the semi-finals at Euro 2020\u00a0and winning gold for Spain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.<br \/>\nHis main rivals for the most-prestigious prize for young footballers are expected to be\u00a0Mason Greenwood (Manchester United), Eduardo Camavinga (Rennes) and Bukayo Saka (Arsenal).<br \/>\nA drop to 40 players will be announced next month, with the finalists being revealed in October.\u00a0All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation&#8217;s top tier.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Barcelona midfielder Pedri remains the standout contender for the 2021 Golden Boy after the shortlist was cut from 100 to 60.<br \/>\nPedri, 18, was a revelation last term after his move from Las Palmas. The teenager\u00a0performed in\u00a0a leading 78 games since last September for club and country, after also making the semi-finals at Euro 2020\u00a0and winning gold for Spain at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.<br \/>\nHis main rivals for the most-prestigious prize for young footballers are expected to be\u00a0Mason Greenwood (Manchester United), Eduardo Camavinga (Rennes) and Bukayo Saka (Arsenal).<br \/>\nA drop to 40 players will be announced next month, with the finalists being revealed in October.\u00a0All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation\u2019s top tier.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119077,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119076\/revisions\/119077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}