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Don Balon release their 100 best young players for 2010

Celebrated Spanish football magazine Don Balon has released it's much anticipated list of the 100 best young players on the planet.

For the third year, the magazine has published the 100 young players they believe fans should be keeping an eye on.

Interestingly, while Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) and Jordan Henderson (Sunderland) make the list from England, missing are Connor Wickham (Ipswich) and Josh McEachran (Chelsea). Also failing to make the list was River Plate striker Rogelio Funes Mori.

The condition for appearing on the list is that the player must be born in 1989 or after.

The 100 chosen are:

Adiyiah (Reggina on-loan from Milan)
Alderweireld (Ajax)
Al Kamali (Al Wahda)
Ananidze (Spartak Moscow)
Ayew (O. Marseille)
Babacar (Fiorentina)
Badstuber (Bayern M.)
Bale (Tottenham)
Balotelli (Manchester City)
Ben Sahar (Hapoel Tel Aviv on-loan from Espanyol)
Bojan (FC Barcelona)
Bo-Kyung Kim (Oita Trinita on-loan from Gamba Osaka)
Boudebouz (Sochaux)
Boyata (Manchester City)
Breno (Bayern M.)
Canales (Real Madrid)
Carcela (Standard L.)
Castaignos (Feyenoord)
Contento (Bayern M.)
Coutinho (Inter)
De Gea (Atlético)
Domínguez (Atlético)
Dos Santos (Tottenham)
Douglas Costa (Shakhtar)
Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow)
Fofana (Le Havre)
Ganso (Santos)
Giuliano (Internacional)
Gonalons (Lyon)
Götze (B. Dortmund)
Griezmann (Real Sociedad)
Hazard (Lille)
Henderson (Sunderland)
Henriksen (Rosenborg)
Hernández (Palermo)
Herrera (Zaragoza)
Holtby (Mainz)
James Rodriguez (Oporto)
Jovetic (Fiorentina)
Kadlec (Sparta Praga)
Kagawa (B. Dortmund)
Kakuta (Chelsea)
Kardec (Benfica)
Kjaer (Wolfsburgo)
Koval (Dinamo Kiev)
Köybasi (Besiktas)
Kroos (Bayern M.)
Lanzini (River Plate)
Ljajic (Fiorentina)
Lovren (Lyon)
Lukaku (Anderlecht)
Lukman (Mónaco)
Macheda (Manchester United)
Marilungo (Sampdoria)
Marin (Werder Bremen)
Mayuka (Young Boys)
Müller (Bayern M.)
Muniain (Athletic)
Muniesa (FC Barcelona)
Muñoz (Palermo)
Mvila (Rennes)
Necid (CSKA Moscú)
Neymar (Santos)
Ninis (Panathinaikos)
N'Koulou (Mónaco)
Pastore (Palermo)
Pato (Milan)
Piatti (Almería)
Pjanic (Lyon)
Rafael da Silva (Manchester United)
Rakytskiy (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Renan, Diego (Cruzeiro)
Reus (B. Mönchengladbach)
Rivière (Saint-Étienne)
Rodwell (Everton)
Rondón (Málaga)
Ruiz (Espanyol
Sakho (PSG)
Santon (Inter)
Shennikov (CSKA Moscow)
Shaqiri (Basle)
Singh (Valerenga)
Sissoko (Toulouse)
Soder (Göteborg)
Stoch (Fenerbahçe)
Tafer (Toulouse on-loan from Lyon)
Thiago (FC Barcelona)
Traoré (Cluj)
Van Wolfswinkel (Utrecht)
Vela (Arsenal)
Vossen (Genk)
Vukusic (Hadjuk Split)
Walcott (Arsenal)
Weiss (Rangers on-loan from Manchester City)
Wijnaldum (Feyenoord)
Wilshere (Arsenal)
Wilson (Liverpool)
Xulu (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Yarmolenko (Dinamo Kiev)
Yildirim (Bursaspor)

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