“Lamine is more Lamine for having played against adults”

Lamine Yamal He is the footballer who speaks most in the guild in this end of the season. The seventeen of the FC Barcelona He has started in just a few days comments of astonishment from colleagues as a reputable as the Norwegian scorer Erling Haaland or by legends of the ball as Thierry Henry o Rio Ferdinand. Another former player with an important curriculum that opened inheriting on 10 Diego Armando Maradona In the Naples, the Italian Gianfranco Zolaalso joined the battery of voices that he opined about Lamine Yamal in terms of reference. His reflection, contrary to others, was to applaud the decision of Barça and the Spanish team itself for not waiting to bet on giving flight to such an early talent. “Today’s Lamine is not the same as it started, it grew thanks to a path that forced him to raise the bar, when he was forced to play with adults, at a higher level,” said the former 58 -year -old soccer player, now vice president of the Lega Pro, who made these demonstrations to ‘Series C Business Value’.

The former midfielder of Naples and Chelsea, among others, implicitly praised the daring that meant to give prominence to a footballer of that talent in the great stage. “You have to say something: Lamine is not the same player who when he started playing. I remember him in his first games; he grew thanks to a path that forced him to raise the bar: when he is forced to play with adults, at a higher level, he has to raise his level to survive,” he said, encouraging that perspective to curdle in Italian football. “This is the path we want to promote in C, so that young people play. I was a good player in Naples, but I found myself in a context where or raised the bar or went home. It is a path of many hours, experience and freedom to do what it has to do,” he argued.

Zola He took his first steps in the elite at a much more advanced age than he has today Lamine Yamal. He coincided with Maradona in Naples between 1989 and 1991. One day, ‘Pelusa’ himself designated him as his dolphin in San Paolo, appreciating his class with the ball and even his ability in the Franco coup. “I gave my shirt to Zola because it represents the future of Napoli,” the great Argentine told the media of the time.