Benfica, beware! Rodrigo Mora draws level with Eagles gem for Golden Boy | OneFootball

Rodrigo Mora seems to have found at Roma the ideal setting to regain the leading role he lost at FC Porto. After a low-key spell with the Dragons, the young Portuguese attacking midfielder has already made four appearances for the Italian club, two of them as a starter, and the increased game time is already having an impact on the Golden Boy race.

Gianluca Prestianni is the Benfica representative best placed. The Argentine currently sits in 27th place with 54.4 points. The overall leader of the list is Pau Cubarsi with 83.4 points.

However, Rodrigo Mora is closing in and putting pressure on the Eagles’ young star, in a list that also includes two other players from the Portuguese League. João Simões, of Sporting, is in 82nd place with 45.8 points, while Bastien Meupiyou, also of the Lions, appears in 88th place with 45.1.

The Golden Boy award was created in 2003 and has already had two Portuguese winners developed at Benfica. Renato Sanches won the award in 2015, precisely in the year he moved to Bayern Munich for €35 million. Four years later, in 2019, it was João Félix who received the distinction, before his transfer to Atlético Madrid for €120 million.

Interestingly, despite the huge expectations created around the two former Benfica talents, neither managed to fully live up to the potential attributed to them. Renato Sanches is currently without a club, while João Félix plays for Al Nassr, where he shares a dressing room with Cristiano Ronaldo and Samu Costa. Now, it is Prestianni who is looking to follow in the footsteps of Benfica’s former winners, but Rodrigo Mora is already closing in in the race.

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