Next Monday at the Ballon d’Or gala held in Paris, the Italian brand Dolce & Gabbana will dress Lamine Yamal, who will win the Kopa Trophy. And today, in the Bernabéu classic, the winger will wear a new smile. It has teamed up with the men’s jewelry brand TwoJeys to customize His dental apparatus, without a doubt, one of his hallmarks. Yesterday, in the previous training session, the youth player exercised with a white mouthguard that provoked Hansi Flick’s curiosity.
Beyond this aesthetic novelty, his life has changed this year. Since September he no longer lives in the Masia. He does it in an apartment near the sports city. Lamine Yamal has lunch with his teammates at the Blaugrana facilities after training. At night he takes the food prepared by the club’s cooks for dinner.
The winger, who no longer resides at La Masia, has approached positions with Lewandowski, with whom he is more united
His family visits him regularly. His mother, Sheila Ebana, who has chosen to maintain a discreet life in Maresme, where she resides with her current partner, almost always goes with her son Keyne. Lamine Yamal thinks about her every time he faces the ball.
His father, the less discreet Mounir Nasraoui, who now lives in the center of Barcelona, also visits him. Since he was stabbed in mid-August in Rocafonda, the humble neighborhood of Mataró where Lamine Yamal grew up, he has remained in the background and without going to Montjuïc. Until last Wednesday, when he went with his friends to the Estadi Olímpic to watch Barça’s victory against Bayern. Today Mounir will not be in the Bernabéu classic. But, despite his past as a Real Madrid fan, he wants his son to defeat the white team.
Lamine Yamal training yesterday with a mouthguard
The idea of Lamine Yamal, who has made life easier for his entire family by investing in their new homes, is to continue at Barcelona. He signed a year ago until 2026. That is, for three seasons, the maximum set by law for underage players. Barça then took the opportunity to close an agreement with Jorge Mendes, his agent, so that this contract would be extended until June 30, 2030 as soon as the player reached the age of majority.
It is just a declaration of intent already signed by your parents but then you have to work on it. Despite what was agreed, the club’s intention is to meet with Mendes this same year to improve the player’s salary, which currently does not reach 2 million euros. Contacts have not yet occurred. Negotiations with footballers like Pedri come first. But they won’t be long.
The winger, who no longer resides at La Masia, has approached positions with Lewandowski, with whom he is more united
And with the team? Lamine Yamal is delighted with Flick’s measures, who has asked his squad to attend match concentrations wearing the official tracksuit. Simply put, there are no more fashion shows.
On the pitch, a lot of work has been done on physical preparation and also on tactics, two elements that always appear in the coach’s pre-match talk. Even though it’s in English, Flick’s speech works. Lamine Yamal doesn’t have too much difficulty understanding him. And if he or any of the players get lost, there is Ter Stegen or Flick’s assistant, Arnau Blanco, to translate.
The coach of FC Barcelona, the German Hansi Flick, observes the player Lamine Yamal
Individual tactical talks also work. “For the Bayern game I asked him to press Davies from the last line to the midfield because we know how important Lamine is when attacking. It’s brilliant. He still has things to polish on defense,” Flick said. Beyond these tactical improvements, the promising winger has another pending task. Learn to manage changes. In hot he gets angry when he sees his number on the panel. He feels like his moment is being cut short. But you have already understood that rotations must exist and that the course is long.
He has a wonderful relationship with his colleagues. Especially with Bucket. He has also approached positions with Lewandowski. He has noticed that the Polish, who taught him and scolded him last year, treats him one to one. Today, young people and veterans, arrive with the desire to defeat the eternal rival.
Looking for his first victory against Real Madrid
On October 28, at 16 years and 107 days old, the youth player became the youngest player to play in a classic. He came on in the 76th minute in the Barça defeat in Montjuïc (1-2). In January he participated in Arabia in the Super Cup final that Barça lost (4-1). Yes, he started in the Bernabéu defeat (3-2).
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