Top 5 Best Young Player Award winners in FIFA World Cup history

The Best Young Player award is given to the best player inthe tournament who is at most 21 years old. It was included in the awards for the first time at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Later, for retrospective effect, FIFA conducted a survey for the users to choose the Best Young Players of the FIFA World Cups held between 1958 and 2002. FIFA named the Best Player of each tournament as per the votings. Lets have a look at 5 young player award winners and their contributions to their national side.

#5 Thomas Muller - 2010

Country: Germany

Age: 20

Matches Played: 6

Thomas Muller played a major role in the German World Cup Campaign in 2010. After the injury to Ballack, he played in the midfield along with Mesut Ozil to form a new attacking unit in the German team. He provided 3 assists and scored 5 goals to finish as the joint top scorer of the tournament.

Goals scored: 5 goals – 1 goal vs Australia (GS), 2 goals vs England (RO16), 1 goal vs Argentina (QF), 1 goal vs Uruguay (3rd PL)