Spain rewrote historical past. They solely put a 16-year-old tremendous expertise within the combat towards Croatia | Sports activities.sk

news-content">On the age of 16 years and 338 days, the Spanish footballer Lamine Yamal grew to become the youngest participant to begin on the last event of the European Championship.

The FC Barcelona participant featured in Spain’s beginning line-up for Saturday’s Group B sport towards Croatia, breaking the report set by Poland’s Kacmer Kozlowski, who began on the earlier European Championship on the age of 17 and 246 days.

Yamal has already accomplished his first full season on the Catalan membership. He grew to become a secure member within the “Blaugranas” line and gained the belief of captain Xavi Hernandez, who gave him an opportunity as a 15-year-old within the 2022/23 season. Yamal began in La Liga solely as soon as and in 37 conferences he scored 5 targets, and added the identical variety of assists.

He performed all 10 duels within the LM, however with out scoring a aim. Already final October, he grew to become the youngest scorer within the highest Spanish competitors. After that, he succeeded with the identical feat within the nationwide group, when he scored a aim in his first match towards Georgia (7:1) and on the age of 16 years and 57 days he broke the earlier report of a participant Gavi membership group.

The product of the well-known Catalan academy La Masia scored two targets within the European Championship qualifiers. Within the March affiliation time period, he bought an help within the sport towards Brazil (3:3) and he additionally made two aim assists within the European warm-up towards Northern Eire (5:1).

Yamal can break one other championship report if he wins. The youngest goalscorer is Johan Vonlanthen of Switzerland, who scored on the 2004 European Championship on the age of 18 years and 141 days.

Extra on EURO 2024: