Punjab FC Bikash Yumnam’s central defender is one of 60 most sensitive footballers under the age of 18, according to The Guardian. La list of Manchester City players, PSG, Real Madrid Arsenal, Juventus and Bayern Munich, among others, published on Thursday. .
Yumnam’s 84-word profile on the main newspaper’s online page mentions its functionality at the 2018 U16 Asian Championships, where India reached the quarter-finals, losing 1-0 to South Korea. It is the only goal conceded by India at the festival after a 0-0 draw against Iran and Indonesia. The defeat in the quarterfinals meant that India was one win away from qualifying for the 2019 U-17 World Cup.
“Composed on the ball, a wonderful player of the game, and capable of excellent, immediate and long kick-offs, the teenager has already been doomed to a progression to the entire foreign team,” the report says.
“I can’t organize . . . my BIKASH YUMNAM is the only Indian player on this prestigious list. . . WOW-bravo for my coaches,” Ranjit Bajaj wrote on Twitter.
Yumnam has been loaned to Indian Arrows, the progression team of the Indian Football Federation, for I-League 2019-2020. After 16 games, the Arrows reserved for Indians who are relegation were in the back of the 11-team standings. nine games in the I-League before being stopped due to Covid-19.
Dayot Upamecano, Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Martin Odegaard, Ianis Hagi, who is the son of Gheorghe Hagi, Federico Valverde are some of the names on the list drawn up in 2015. Kai Havertz is on the 2016 list as is Gianluigi Donnarumma, Matthijs de Light and Diogo Dalot, Vinicius Junior named in 2017 as one of the 60 teens to watch, as were Alphonso Davies, Jadon Sancho and Erling Braut Haaland When Rodrygo was on the shortlist in 2018, he had not moved to the Real Madrid or Santos. Greenwood among those indexed for the big news of 2018, such as Eric Garcia, and Eduardo Camavinga spent last year.
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