Lamine Yamal It comes from exhibiting at the highest level everything good in your football in the first leg of the semifinals of the Champions League between Barcelona And Inter Milan, in which he scored a goal and saw how two posts deprived him of celebrating two more in a process that ended with equal 3-3 leaving the series open for his definition in Italian lands.
He is only 17 years old And it has already managed to be decisive, leading and necessary in quotations of maximum demand before what they managed to be Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldoeven when they were able to master world football for almost two decades. In that sense, statistics related to Golden Ball and become, with a wide margin, the youngest footballer to conquer him.
Messi got the first of his eight in 2009, when he was 22 years old. A year earlier, in 2008, Cristiano had received the first of his five having 23 years. Anyway, the youngest footballer in conquering the award who distinguishes the best in the world in a season was Ronaldo Nazariowell He was 21 when he was awarded in 1997.
Beyond an individual performance that does not cease to surprise, for quality and by authority, Lamine Yamal is also going down with Barcelona also that collective path that historically has been necessary support for those who have awarded the award given by the magazine France Football.
Already crowned champion of the Copa del Rey On April 26, thanks to the 3-2 victory over Real Madrid in the final, and very aimed in LaLigawhere it leads with four points ahead of Real Madrid in the absence of five days for its completion, The most difficult mission seems to be the Champions League because he failed to be imposed in the first semifinal match of the local and must close the series as a visitor of Inter in Milan. If Barcelona achieves the triple crown, there will almost be no opposition for Lamine Yamal in the race for the Golden Ball.
Lamine Yamal numbers in the season
In this season, Lamine Yamal has been disputed 49 official matches Between League, Champions League, Copa del Rey and Super Cup of Spain. Accumulated during them a total of 15 goals and 20 assiststhat is, he has directly participated in 35 goals.
Who is Yamal’s greatest opponent for the Golden Ball?
To date, and the development of a champion in Champions League will have to do for a definition, who has been accumulating merits to play the Golden Ball to Lamine Yamal is Ousmane DembéléFrench footballer who reinvented himself in PSG With Luis Enrique after a step not so happy in Barcelona and that accumulate 29 goals Between Ligue 1, in which champion was already crowned, and the Champions League, in which his team took a decisive step to settle in the final after defeating Arsenal 1-0 in the first leg of the semifinals that was played in England.
