Portugal midfielder Renato Sanches has been named as Euro 2016's young player of the event.


Portugal midfielder Renato Sanches has been named as Euro 2016's young player of the event.

Sanches beat global group-mate Raphael Guerreiro and his Bayern Munich colleague, France winger Kingsley Coman, to the award, which is open to avid gamers born in 1994 or later and chosen through UEFA technical observers together with Alex Ferguson.

The new Bayern signing seemed in six of the Selecao's seven matches on the match in France, scoring his first worldwide purpose in the quarter-final towards Poland.

Sanches handiest had five caps coming into the event but has already founded himself as a star of Portugal's reward and future.

Having most effective made his senior debut for Benfica as recently as October 2015, the 18-yrs-old accomplished his terrific first season by enjoying for 79 minutes of Sunday's win over France within the final.