Can you name the 100 best young footballers from 2001 according to Don Balon? by BWell

Can you name the 100 best young footballers from 2001 according to Don Balon?

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In 2001, Don Balon, a Spanish football magazine, compiled a list of the best young footballers. 10 years on, it's fair to say their predictions were a bit hit-and miss. SEE COMMENTS FOR EXTRA DETAILS.
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Where were they then?	Player	Where are they now?
Auxerre		Lazio
River Plate		Internacional
EC Vitoria		Desportivo Brasil
Atletico Madrid		Chelsea
Arsenal		Stoke City
Ajax		Tottenham Hotspur
Le Havre		Saint-Etienne (on loan from Sporting)
Bayern Munich		Sevilla
Le Havre		Auxerre
Bologna		Umm Salal
Benfica		Primeiro de Agosto
Borussia Dortmund		Alemannia Aachen
Manchester United		Manchester United
Liverpool		Tranmere Rovers
BK Hacken		Lyon
Auxerre		AC Milan
Ajax		Everton
Real Betis		K.A.A Gent
Eintracht Frankfurt		Arminia Bielefeld
Barcelona		Barcelona
Liverpool		Galatasaray
Sporting Lisbon		Dinamo Bucharest
AC Milan		Newcastle United
Sporting Lisbon		Besiktas
Cruzeiro		Inter Milan
Sporting Lisbon		Sporting Braga
Groningen		Bayern Munich
Montpellier		Free Agent (Montpellier)
Liverpool		Free Agent (Atromitos)
West Ham United		Tottenham Hotspur
Aston Villa		Manchester City
Lokomotiv Moscow		Spoting Lisbon
Auxerre		Granada
San Lorenzo		San Lorenzo

Where were they then?	Player	Where are they now?
Ajax		AC Milan
Crewe Alexandra		Retired (West Ham United)
Benfica		Free Agent (Dinamo Tbilisi)
Liverpool		Doncaster Rovers (on loan from Wigan)
Velez Sarsfield		BSC Young Boys
FC Porto		Real Zaragoza
Ajax		Zamalek
Real Betis		Malaga
Santos		Atletico Madrid (on loan from Wolfsburg)
Southampton		Free Agent (Bonnyrigg White Eagles)
Dinamo Zagreb		Tottenham Hotspur
Schalke 04		Retired (SW Essen)
Borussia Dortmund		Terek Grozny
Monaco		Blackburn Rovers
Empoli		Catania
AC Milan		Bari
Bolivar		Guabira
Arsenal		Lorient
Athletic Bilbao		CD Tenerife
Sporting Lisbon		Free Agent (Alzira)
Werder Bremen		Energie Cottbus
Bayer Leverkusen		LA Galaxy
FC Porto		Valencia
Schalke 04		Dynamo Dresden
Sporting Lisbon		Granada (on loan from Benfica)
Fenerbahce		Turgutluspor
Parma		Alianza Lima
Celtic		Livingston
Corinthians		Palermo
Newcastle United		Ipswich Town
FC Dallas		Free Agent (Fulham)
Vitesse		Pelita Jaya
DC United		DC United
Stuttgart		SC Freiburg

Where were they then?	Player	Where are they now?
Manchester United		Blackpool
Juventus		Atalanta (on loan from Roma)
Millwall		Free Agent (Panetolikos)
Nantes		Free Agent (Vannes OC)
Vitesse		Ajax
Panathinaikos		FC Dnipro
Newell's Old Boys		Seattle Sounders
BK Hacken		Free Agent (De Graafschap)
Barcelona		CD Numancia
Bastia		Chelsea
Perth Glory		Perth SC
FC Porto		FC Arouca
MyPa		MyPa
Bayer Leverkusen		Manchester United
FC Twente		HHC Hardenberg
Malmo FF		Genclerbirligi
Bayer Leverkusen		KSV Hessen Kassel
FC Jokerit		Leeds United
Manchester United		Free Agent (Cambridge City)
Eintracht Frankfurt		Retired (Eintracht Frankfurt)
Paris St. Germain		Sporting Central Academy
Cerro Porteno		Free Agent (FBC Melgar)
Manchester United		Sunderland
Feyenoord		Red Bull Salzburg (on loan from NAC Breda)
Celtic		Wigan Athletic
SK Brann		Kasimpasa
Sao Paulo		Real Madrid
Borussia Munchengladbach		Alemmania Aachen
Eintracht Frankfurt		Eintracht Frankfurt II
Bayern Munich		Genclerbirligi
Nottingham Forest		Sheffield Wednesday
Stuttgart		Wolfsburg (on loan form Barcelona)

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100 Best Young Footballers (soccer players) 2001 Quiz

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Created Apr 11, 2011 in Sports
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	BWell:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 11:53 GMT	1 point
	I appreciate that it is practically impossible to get 100% on this quiz, which shows you how bad the magazine's predictions were. If you can get 50%, that would be a fantastic score. The requirement for getting onto the list at the time was a birth date in 1981 or later. The youngest player on here is born in 1985. Thanks for playing. Please rate and comment with any suggestions or complaints. And good luck (you're going to need it).

	mat84:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 12:41 GMT	1 point
	Thijs Houwing? mwhahaha. Long time ago

	Cestrian:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 13:07 GMT	4 points
	What a great quiz. Hard but really fun. Ten years of hindsight is a lot, admittedly, but there's some wonderfully wrong predictions in here.

	sinatra22:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 14:32 GMT	-1 points
	Oh, this is a soccer quiz. I get fooled again...

	nikitakou:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 21:22 GMT	1 point
	Easily 5 globes

	ben11:	May 9th, 2011 at 15:35 GMT	1 point
	Massive championship manager flashback. Excellent. happy with 30, but spelt kranjcar and d'allesandro wrong. i'm calling that 32

	Contra:	Sep 2nd, 2011 at 23:42 GMT	1 point
	Wow some of them are still pretty young.

	Bainerz45:	Oct 27th, 2011 at 00:46 GMT	1 point
	Enjoyed this a lot. So annoyed with some I didn't get though, looking over it. Only got 23. I'd say it's not too bad a list for 10 years ago though.

	BWell:	Oct 30th, 2011 at 12:50 GMT	1 point
	The quiz has been updated to include all of the summer transfers. Some of the players marked as free agents might just be players that I can't find. So, if you have any idea where they might be playing, then just leave a comment. Thanks.