Portuguese players are no strangers when it comes to the Golden Boy Award. In the 2016 and 2019 editions, Renato Sanches and João Félix, respectively, took the prize, making Portugal the second biggest winner after France (Paul Pogba, Anthony Martial and Kylian Mbappé).

For this year's edition, Portugal is missing a strong number one contender. However, the latest Portuguese Primeira Liga Betting Odds show that there are eight very interesting Portuguese promises in the final list of 60. Let’s meet them. 

• Benfica
• Portugal,
• Liga NOS,
• Sporting,
• FC Porto,
• Nuno Mendes
• Francisco Conceicao
• Henrique Jocu

As the Portuguese elite ready themselves for a comeback, officially returning to training across the board ahead of the Primeira Liga resuming, plenty are the names keen to impress after a long and impromptu break from proceedings.

Many of those thought to have been impressing have already featured in PortuGOAL’s ‘Pearls of Portugal’ series and, with the financial power ahead of this summer’s transfer market expected to be weakened, a complementary pre-season campaign could provide the perfect storm for some to catapult their names to the forefront.

Here’s PortuGOAL’s final lot of our young football hopefuls.

• Benfica
• Portugal,
• Primeira Liga,
• Liga NOS,
• Sporting,
• FC Porto,
• FC Famalicao
• Gustavo Assuncao
• Joao Daniel Santos
• Diogo Leite
• Paulo Bernardo

On the week the Primeira Liga announced its ambitions to return by June, prompting the return to training of many of its top-flight outfits, all eyes will be on how the German Bundesliga’s comeback, set for next week, unfolds, paving the way for the likes of the Liga NOS to follow attentively.

Here at PortuGOAL we’re continuing to shine light on the potential stars of tomorrow, emanating from the division. 

With no end to the talent emerging, following on from last week's installment, we bring to you four more names, across the division tipped for big things in the coming months and seasons.

• Benfica
• Primeira Liga,
• Liga NOS,
• Sporting,
• FC Porto,
• Belenenses
• Diogo Calila
• Fabio Silva
• Eduardo Quaresma
• Rafael Brito

With the Belgian, Dutch and French authorities definitively cancelling the 2019/20 football season due to the COVID-19 outbreak, things in Portugal look set to turn out differently after plans about a possible return were outlined, this week.

Given the unforgettable campaign in more ways than one, all that’s left for us to do is relish a future with some sort of normality restored. For a budding generation of Portuguese talent, never too far from the spotlight in the Primeira Liga, some of these highly-rated and coveted prospects could find themselves involved sooner rather than later in top-flight football in Portugal.

In PortuGOAL’s latest instalment of the Pearls of Portugal series, Patrick Ribeiro looks at four more potential stars of tomorrow: