Liverpool Defender Nominated for 2020 Golden Boy Award

Neco Williams has made the shortlist as one of Europe’s top
young players but will have to be happy just being nominated.

Another day, another Liverpool player up for a major award. When you’re one
of the top three club sides in Europe, it’s the sort of thing that
happens fairly often. Though this time around it’s not a first team
regular.

This time around, it’s Neco Williams, with the 19-year-old being
named to the 40-name shortlist (which seems a long shortlist, but
we’re just working with the press release here) for the annual
Golden Boy award.

Europe’s most uncomfortably n amed award is announced annually
for a player under 21 who has played in a European nation’s top
tier, and the first, last, and only time a Liverpool player won it
was Raheem Sterling

Last year, Trent Alexander-Arnold came close for the season he
and the Reds won the Champions
League and came second in the Premier League with 97 points,
but in the end he fell just short of João Félix.

Both Liverpool’s winners and losers of the award, though, speak
to this being a case where Williams will have to be happy just to
be nominated for a prize Jadon Sancho, Erling Haaland, or Alphonso
Davies will win.