2018 NxGn awards for top teenage talents in football announced; two Ajax talents in the top five.
Source: Soccrates/GETTY IMAGESAjax younster Justin Kluivert has won the 2018 NxGn award for the world's best teenage talent in football, surpassing competition from AC Milan's talented shot stopper Gianluigi Donnarumma, who won the award last year and was vying for the top spot for a second successive year.
Source: GETTY IMAGESIn the third position was Vinicius Junior, who last year became the most expensive 16-year-old footballer of all time after Real Madrid agreed to pay Flamengo €45 million to get the striker to Santiago Bernabeu. Kluivert's Ajax teammate and defender Matthijs De Ligt finished fourth.
Source: Rodrigo Buendia/Getty ImagesDe Ligt has been impressive for club and country over the past few months and rightly so, earned his place among the best teenage talents. FIFA U-17 World Cup winner and Manchester City starlet Phil Foden was ranked number five. The Englishman helped the Three Lions to the podium finish in India towards the end of last year.