To meet Don Balon’s criteria all players listed had to be born after January 1st 1989 (21 or under on January 1st 2010) and, of course, pretty decent with a ball at their feet.
I went thru the list like a dozen times...well your guess is as good as mine...looking to see if Nigeria is on..but, i wasnt disappointed...for the obvious reasons...that you and i are very much aware off...
Without dressing it up too much here is the list, in alphabetical order:
Top 100:
Dominic Adiyiah (Reggina)
Toby Alderweireld (Ajax)
Hamdan Al Kamali (Al Wahda)
Jano Ananidze (Spartak Moscow)
Andre Ayew (Marseille)
Khouma Babacar (Fiorentina)
Holger Badstuber (Bayern)
Gareth Bale (Tottenham)
Mario Balotelli (Manchester City)
Ben Sahar (Hapoel Tel Aviv)
Bojan (FC Barcelona)
Bo-Kyung Kim (Oita Trinita)
Ryad Boudebouz (Sochaux)
Dedryck Boyata (Manchester City)
Breno (Bayern Munich)
Sergio Canales (Real Madrid)
Mehdi Carcela-Gonzalez (Standard)
Luc Castaignos (Feyenoord)
Diego Contento (Bayern Munich)
Phillippe Coutinho (Inter)
David De Gea (Atletico Madrid)
Alvaro Domínguez (Atletico Madrid)
Giovanni Dos Santos (Tottenham)
Douglas Costa (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Alan Dzagoev (CSKA Moscow)
Gueïda Fofana (Le Havre)
Paulo Henrique Ganso (Santos)
Giuliano (Internacional)
Maxime Gonalons (Lyon)
Mario Götze (Borussia Dortmund)
Antoine Griezmann (Real Sociedad)
Eden Hazard (Lille)
Jordan Henderson (Sunderland)
Markus Henriksen (Rosenborg)
Abel Hernández (Palermo)
Ander Herrera (Real Zaragoza)
Lewis Holtby (Mainz 05)
James Rodriguez (Porto)
Stefan Jovetic (Fiorentina)
Vaclav Kadlec (Sparta Prague)
Shinji Kagawa (Dortmund)
Gael Kakuta (Chelsea)
Alan Kardec (Benfica)
Simon Kjaer (Wolfsburg)
Maksim Koval (Dinamo Kiev)
Ismail Köybasi (Besiktas)
Toni Kroos (Bayern)
Manuel Lanzini (River Plate)
Adem Ljajic (Fiorentina)
Dejan Lovren (Lyon)
Romelu Lukaku (Anderlecht)
Lukman Haruma (Monaco)
Federico Macheda (Manchester United)
Guido Marilungo (Sampdoria)
Marko Marin (Werder Bremen)
Emmanuel Mayuka (Young Boys)
Thomas Müller (Bayern)
Iker Muniain (Athletic Bilbao)
Marc Muniesa (FC Barcelona)
Ezequiel Muñoz (Palermo)
Yann M’vila (Rennes)
Tomas Necid (CSKA Moscow)
Neymar (Santos)
Sotiris Ninis (Panathinaikos)
Nikolas N’Koulou (Monaco)
Javier Pastore (Palermo)
Alexandre Pato (Milan)
Pablo Piatti (Almería)
Miralem Pjanic (Lyon)
Rafael da Silva (Manchester United)
Yaroslav Rakytskiy (Shakhtar)
Renan Diego (Cruzeiro)
Marco Reus (Borussia Mönchengladbach)
Emmanuel Rivière (Saint-Etienne)
Jack Rodwell (Everton)
Jose Rondón (Málaga)
Victor Ruiz (Espanyol)
Mamadou Sakho (PSG)
Davide Santon (Inter)
Georgy Shennikov (CSKA Moskow)
Xherdan Shaqiri (Basel)
Harmeet Singh (Valerenga)
Moussa Sissoko (Toulouse)
Robin Soder (IFK Göteborg)
Miroslav Stoch (Fenerbahçe)
Yannis Tafer (Toulouse)
Thiago (FC Barcelona)
Lacina Traoré (CFR Cluj)
Ricky Van Wolfswinkel (Utrecht)
Carlos Vela (Arsenal)
Jelle Vossen (Genk)
Ante Vukusic (Hadjuk Split)
Theo Walcott (Arsenal)
Vladimir Weiss (Rangers)
Georginio Wijnaldum (Feyenoord)
Jack Wilshere (Arsenal)
Danny Wilson (Liverpool)
Siyanda Xulu (Mamelodi Sundowns)
Andriy Yarmolenko (Dinamo Kiev)
Sercan Yildirim (Bursaspor)
Players are listed for the clubs they are playing at at the time the list was compiled so, for example, Dominic Adiyiah is listed as a Reggina player despite only being there on loan.
Source: Just-football