Despite his 17 years, Lamine Yamal gave a whole lesson in The anthill by Pablo Motos. The FC Barcelona footballer and youngest candidate for the Ballon d’Or demonstrated in front of more than three million spectators an atypical ability for a boy of his age.
The striker began by revealing that due to his fame he could not go shopping. “I usually do it online because it’s difficult”. Motos later became interested in what King Felipe VI told him when he went down to the locker room after winning the European Cup. “He asked me how old I was, I told him 16 and everyone started laughing,” he replied.
Beyond football, Pablo Motos wanted to know what keeps him grounded, despite the fact that his market value hovers around 120 million euros, according to Transfermarkt. “Going to my mom’s house and asking her to say, ‘Put your flip-flops on, pick this up, make the bed,'” she said. “He’s in charge more than my rep.”
“I finally passed ESO,” Yamal also noted, not forgetting to remember where he comes from. “My neighborhood, in the end, is everything. My family is there, my grandmother, my cousins. There I learned a lot of things. I got my values and my education there. For me, that’s everything.”
Perhaps the only clue to his young age was the one whim he had in mind. “I want to buy an octopus. I want to have it. I’ve thought about what I want, but I don’t know if my mother will like it. Everything he has is possible, it is impossible for him to leave me.”
