Video of Barcelona Players Celebrating Gavi After Winning Golden Boy Award Emerges

Video of Barcelona Players Celebrating Gavi After Winning Golden Boy Award Emerges

Isaac Darko
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:14 PM
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  • Barcelona players decided to congratulate Golden Boy award winner Gavi with a corridor during training
  • The Spain international was selected as the best under-21 player, following his superb performance in the calendar year
  • Gavi beat competition from Eduardo Camavinga, Jamal Musiala and Jude Bellingham to claim the award

Pablo Martín Páez Gavira was back in training as a hero on Saturday after winning the Golden Boy award.

Commonly known as Gavi, the Barcelona youngster resumed training to show off his award to his teammates and manager Xavi Hernandez, before starting the drills.

The 18-year-old saw off competition from Eduardo Camavinga, Jude Bellingham and Jamal Musiala to win the crown.

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Barcelona players decided to congratulate Golden Boy award winner Gavi with a corridor at training. Credit: @fcbarcelona
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Gavi was congratulated by his Barcelona colleagues with a corridor.

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In a video posted on Twitter, sighted by Sports Brief, all of Gavi's teammates were visibly happy for the youngster.

After that, they went back to training as Blaugrana prepare to lock horns with Athletic Bilbao at Camp Nou this Sunday.

This is the second award Gavi has won within a week, after bagging the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d'Or award ceremony in Paris on Monday.

What's the Golden Boy award?

The Golden Boy award was created in 2003 by Italian media outlet Tuttosport, to celebrate Europe's best young player aged under 21 in a calendar year.

Rafael van der Vaart won the prize in its first edition, followed by Wayne Rooney, Lionel Messi and Cesc Fabregas.

Other past winners include Sergio Aguero, Mario Balotelli, Mario Gotze, Paul Pogba and Isco.

The award is mainly voted by selected sports journalists.

The Golden Boy awards recognises the calendar year’s most outstanding under-21 men’s soccer player.

Davies slams Ballon d’Or organisers

Earlier, Sports Brief reported that Bayern Munich defender Alphonso Davies has taken a swipe at France Football, organisers of the Ballon d'Or awards, for 'robbing' his teammate Jamal Musiala.

The 21-year-old defender took to Twitter to register his displeasure with the award organisers, for bypassing Musiala and naming Gavi as the Kopa Trophy winner. Davies also touted his teammate as one to win the most coveted prize in the near future.

Musiala has stolen the limelight since he debuted with Bayern Munich last season and has continued in red-hot fashion this term.

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Isaac Darko is a La Liga, Ligue 1 and Bundesliga editor at Sports Brief with a Degree in Journalism and Communications from Ghana Institute of Journalism (2010)
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