🏆✨ OFFICIAL: Lamine Yamal wins Best Young Talent Award at Ballon d’Or 2026.
🗣️Lamine Yamal: “Pau Cubarsí deserved the Best Young Player Award”.
The Young Talent Award at the Ballon d’Or recognizes the best young male and female footballers of the season, based on individual performances, team achievements, and fair play. The winners must be under 21 years old. The men’s award was previously known as the Kopa Trophy, while the women’s award recognizes the best young female player. Lamine Yamal won the men’s award in 2024, 2025, and 2026.