Lamine Yamal celebrates with Ferrán Torres the equalizer against Tottenham (EFE).
There are children who do not behave as such. Children who play like veterans, without weighing down the pressure of their first times. There are children, and Lamine Yamal is one of them. A star has been born in Can Barça. One of those that does not need to score a goal to shine with its own light and turn off the rest of the Barça constellations. Villarreal had traced the goals from Gavi and De Jong and threatened to deal the first defeat for Xavi’s men in the League, but Quique Setién’s plan did not include the supernova called Lamine Yamal. With Barça behind on the scoreboard and overwhelmed by the good work of the yellow submarine, the boy threw the team on his back to reverse a very uphill game for the Catalans.
He is not yet old enough to drive or go to nightclubs. When she smiles you can see the braces on her face beaming with innocence. She is only 16 years old, moreover, just turned, but the data amazes in an inordinate way with each dribble, each change of pace and each shot on goal. This is precisely how Barça’s fourth and final goal arrived, it was not scored by him, but by Lewandowski, who took advantage of the rebound of the post from a shot by Lamine Yamal after taking shape on the edge of the area. It was as essential when it came to closing the scoring, as it was to open it, although also from the background. He put on his assistant boots to send a measured cross to which Gavi only had to put his head to beat Jorgensen.
Xavi maintained his daring bet from the previous day against Cádiz with Lamine repeating ownership and the success was great. He participated in two goals, led the Barça attack and only the first crosshead and later the stick prevented the youngest player to debut with the Barça shirt in the League from scoring his first goal. “Expectations are very high, and more because it is what you see. In the end, he starts out not because of the coach’s whim, but because we see him capable of making a difference. He is a differential player, he is smart, he chooses well and the most important thing in soccer, the decision making is almost always the right one, which is the most important thing in a soccer player. He is a footballer to mark an era, ”said Xavi at the end of the game.
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His irruption is of such magnitude that, at the age of 16, he has already broken down the door of the senior team. It will be present in the list that Luis de la Fuente will give on September 1 for the window in which Spain will face Georgia and Cyprus on its way to Euro 2024. It will break the all-time record for precociousness of the team that currently belongs to Gavi, capable of debuting at 17 years and 62 days with the absolute. Lamine Yamal is a unique case.
In the Federation they see in him a player capable of dominating world football in the coming years, for this reason, and, faced with the threat of Morocco, they want to shield the Barça winger. Enrolled from the Under-15 in the lower categories, Lamine Yamal has left his mark in the Under-16 and Under-17 and will do so in the absolute in the next stop of selections.
Spain is thus ahead of Morocco, the country where his father is from and who is looking for young talents to add to his squad “It is a personal decision. I would like him to be in our football, in Spanish football and with Spain, but it is already a personal decision of his. He has not told me anything, with total sincerity with what he is going to do ”, commented Xavi.
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The glow of Lamine Yamal has, indirectly, dimmed that of other constellations that were expected to shine brightly. As is the case of Ansu Fati. Xavi gave him only 11 minutes in Getafe when the team needed to score at all costs. Against Cádiz and started on the bench despite the fact that Raphinha could not play due to suspension, the coach opted for Lamine. And against Villarreal the same thing happened.
Curiously, Ansu Fati enters the field of play when the match has already been traced back by Barça and substituting Yamal, he left cheered by the La Cerámica public and with the MVP of the match under his arm. His was the reaction to the yellow submarine, his was the ovation he received when he had brought order out of chaos and his is the future.
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