Laminate Yamal This is one of the names of the moment. The player of BarcelonaAt 17, he made his way into the elite thanks to his self-confidence and a lot of football, an example of precocity, that football does not understand dates of birth. Enter the European Cup from Spain, won a place among the candidates for Golden Ball and is the big favorite to win the Golden Boy, now called Trophy Kopa.
Even if his football is already at the level of confirmed players, of thoroughbred footballers, we cannot forget that Laminate Yamal He is still a child for whom success and attention came quickly, overnight, and the embarrassments of a young man rarely disappear just because. He tells in an interview how his first contact with the first team went, under the orders of Xavi Hernandez: “The first time I left my shoes in the locker room and went to the gym to do some cycling, because I was embarrassed to be there. “I saw Jordi Alba, Piqué, Pjanic… Then with time I adapted and when I made my debut I wasn’t nervous.”
“Playing in the street made me lose my fear of playing with bigger people. I was 11 or 12 years old and my rivals were 20. It made me lose my fear, have fun and be able to play against anyone,” he explains. Yamalwho from a young age was already competing with players almost twice his age, which sometimes made him think he was playing in “easy mode”: “I’m a boy who doesn’t like to be at a higher level, like I did in the cadets, because I don’t like to relax or go too far. I always like it when it’s more difficult. “I prefer not to play than to play everything and have it be very easy.”
“I always played with my dogs, because my father said they didn’t bite and I started running with them. Playing against a dog is the hardest thing you can do,” he recalls. Lamine Yamalin an interview with The Teamwhere they compare it to Lion Messi: “The most important thing is not to look. Being compared to the best in history means you’re doing things right. I don’t mind, but I try to be myself. The most important thing is to have a legacy.”
“I went to a friend’s house who had a computer to watch videos of Neymar all afternoon and when I got home to sleep, I started practicing in my room,” he recalls. Laminate Yamal about one of his idols, Neymareven though he already appreciated the previous culé generation before: “Messi, Villa, Rock…these are the first images I remember…” Now, some time after landing on the Barcelona And THE FarmIt’s all positive memories, learning and evolving into the footballer he is today: “When I arrived, I had one-on-one, verticality and everything, but I had no control over myself. “I didn’t know when to play fast, when to play slow, play as a team…”
