Jude Bellingham with a clean-sweep at Golden Boy voting

Written By Javed Baloch

Jude Bellingham has reportedly won the Golden Boy award, given to best young football player, with 97% of the votes in his favor.

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The percentage win is same as that to Mbappé's Golden Boy award, but Bellingham has received more votes from Journalists.

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45 out of 50 sports journalist selected as voters voted him as the winner or the number 1 in the list that also included

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Barcelona's Gavi, Bayern's Jamal Musiala, and his Madrid teammate Camavinga as well.

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It is worth mentioning that remaining 5 Journalist voted for Bellingham as the 2nd choice.

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Bellingham joined Real Madrid from BVB this summer. He has scored 15 goals and provide 4 assists in his first 16 games for Real.

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