Spain has just finished its first match of Euro 2024, and with this, thanks to having fielded Lamine Yamal, it has managed to break the record of the youngest player in history to play any minute in a Euro Cup. In the last Euro Cup in 2021, two new names were added to this list of 5, and one of them has become an absolute world star. That said, let’s see the list of the 5 players:
The 5 youngest players in the history of the Euro Cup:
Lamine Yamal 🇪🇸 (16 years and 338 days)
Kacper Kozlowski 🇵🇱 (17 years and 246 days)
Jude Bellingham 🏴 (17 years and 349 days)
Jetro Willems 🇳🇱 (18 years and 71 days)
Vincenzo Scifo 🇧🇪 (18 years and 115 days) pic.twitter.com/Hr7DOZL48P— MisterChip (Alexis) (@2010MisterChip) June 15, 2024
As we have been announcing, Lamine Yamal, the very young forward of FC Barcelona, has just become the youngest player in history to play at least one minute in a European Championship since its inception. The winger was substituted in the second half, but the fact that he started as a starter speaks of his quality and the trust placed in him by the coach and the team.
In the last Euro Cup, 2021, the young Polish player Kacper Kozlowski would become, after overtaking Bellingham, the youngest player in history at the time, to play any minute in a Euro Cup. Since that day he has not had much relevance in his selection, being completely forgotten in the calls since September 2023.
Today, it is difficult to find someone who does not know the name of Jude Bellingham, possible winner of this year’s Ballon d’Or, but at the Euro 2021, not everyone knew who he was, and that is, the young player In a match against Croatia (until Kozlowski’s debut days later) the Englishman would become the youngest player to debut in a European Championship.
In this case we have to go back to the 2012 Euro Cup, in which a young Jetro Willems would make his debut with the Dutch team in what would be a bad tournament for the oranges that would be eliminated in groups. The player had minutes in all the games, and with the first, he would steal from his predecessor the title of the youngest player to debut in a European Championship.
And finally, we will move to 1984, when in the Euro Cup that France would win, a young Scifo would amaze all of Europe in the first match against Yugoslavia. The young Belgian’s game would be enough for them to win the first game, although it would be the only one they would win and they would be eliminated in groups. Despite this, the young Scifo left his mark on the national team, being one of the great Belgian names.
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