Lamine Yamal, at the gates of being a centenary with Barça

With 17 years and 114 days, Leo Messi began to take his first steps in Barça’s first team. He debuted on October 16, 2004, in a League match against Espanyol. The Argentine ended that season with nine official participations with the elderly. There were still three years for the best player on the planet to reach 100 games with Barcelona and be considered, beyond undisputed headline, one of the most unbalanced soccer players of the team, together with Ronaldinho and Eto’o. It did the 2007-2008 season with 20 years of age.

Emerged from the same Masia 21 years later, a talent emerges that has another way to measure time or, at least, another way of processing the maturation stages. With 17 years, two months after the age of majority on July 13, Lamine Yamal will reach tomorrow at the first leg of the Champions League semifinals against Inter Milan the 100 games played with FC Barcelona. In the previous 99 the end, which debuted with Xavi Hernández last season with 15 years, has scored 21 goals, has given 33 assists and, this course with Hansi Flick has won a Super Cup and a Copa del Rey the same season as Barcelona, ​​leader of the League and semifinalist of the Champions League, aspires to the poker of titles.

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If Messi, who with 100 games, won two leagues, a Champions and two Spanish Super Cups, exhausted all possible adjectives becoming the number one player with seven golden balls, Lamine Yamal has already taken over the “early” qualifying. With Barcelona he has become the youngest to debut (15 years, 290 days) but also scoring a goal or playing a classic, milestones he got with 16 years. At the selection level, he is also the youngest to be summoned by the absolute (16 years, 260 days) and in playing, marking and winning a Eurocup (16 years, 334 days).

Messi at his age took his first steps in the first team: it would take three more years to reach 100

His precocity in the world of football, the king sport, is only comparable to that of Pelé, who with 17 years, was already one of the most prominent players. He was crowned world champion with Brazil in 1958 becoming the youngest player to win a World Cup and score a goal in a World Cup final. In fact, in this tournament, Pelé scored six goals and consolidated himself as an international star for his influence and dominance in the field.

The end of Barcelona has also proven to be a decisive player in key moments. His technique and his ability to overflow have made him a reference and also the worst nightmare for the rival. “Everything is living normally,” explains his environment that, together with Barcelona, ​​have agreed that today in the prelude to the semifinal, Lamine Yamal appears for the first time before the media to transmit his sensations but also his optimism and the desire to eat the world without fear.

The footballer has also grown out of the field

Very friend of Balde and Ansu Fati, with whom he shares Agent – Jorge Mendes-, lives, from this year, outside the Masia although near the sports city. He likes to learn to cook, approved the ESO last year and in his spare time he visits his paternal family in Rocafonda, his neighborhood of Mataró, and also frequents the Maresme where his mother, Sheila Ebana, and his little brother Keyne. This year Lamine Yamal has first practiced Ramadan and has also learned to better know her adolescent body. Flick, who controls his Excel of minutes, advises him and has the last word to decide his presence in the field.

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Laporta has left Deco the player’s renewal, who wants to close this summer

In the offices, Barça wanted to update this course its card, which is 2 million net. Laporta, who has left the matter in the hands of Deco, hopes that, when the construction of the spotify Camp Nou boxes will be a reality and the Auditor and Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, approve the operation with which the entity may account for 100 million, return to standard 1-1 and execute its renewal at least until 2030. The end signed a year ago until 2026, the maximum allowed by law for minors. He took advantage of then to close a pre -agreement for this link to be extended as soon as the player turns 18. This declaration of intentions is a letter already signed by their parents, Mounir Nasraoui and Sheila Ebana, which the player, who already has a market value of 180 million euros, wishes to ratify.