Few scenarios are as appropriate as the Olympiastadion of Berlinwhich has witnessed feats of athletics legends such as Jesse Owens and Usain Boltto illuminate the debut of the youngest player in the history of the Euro Cup. At 16 years and eleven months (he will turn 17 on July 13), Lamine Yamal monopolizes the spotlight on the debut of Spain against Croatia with some reason. His emergence this season, in which from a very young age he has become an elite footballer and has left traces of a great player in very important matches (the Classicthe tie against PSGhe Spain-Brazil of the Bernabeu), justifies the expectation on the occasion of the match against Croatia in which, barring any surprise, he will be the starter.”
“We come to make history,” he said earlier this week in an interview with AS and in which he demonstrated a naturalness unbecoming of his youth. He looks comfortable Laminatefar from the shyness that could be expected from a very young boy who has very different concerns from those of players who belong to another generation and who live with him in the training camp. Der Öschberghof. But everyone from the captain Morata even the madridista Joselu; going by Nico Williams and Ferminto whom he is very close, have welcomed him with enough affection to create an ecosystem that allows him not to miss his usual things: The Masiayour family or your usual friends.
Despite having played up to 57 official matches and being in action since July of last year, when he already offered samples of his world class on the tour of the Barcelona along the west coast of USA, Laminate He arrives with good legs. “Xavi “He has managed me well,” he also admitted in the interview he gave last Tuesday to ACE. The footballer who “closes his ears” when he plays, as if time stopped, is one of the great attractions of the world of football in this Euro Cup and is already a footballer who has transcended the borders of The league to be pointed out as one of the great young stars of the future, at the level of the Bellingham, Vinicius, Musiala, Wirtz. Favorite to Golden Boy of the year, in which he would succeed his colleagues Pedri and Gavi; and the madridista Bellinghamlast winner, there is a terrible expectation to see him debut tonight in a big tournament with the Selection. His colleagues from Rocafondathat neighborhood where he can still walk around without a hoodie because he is still one of them there, they expect him to greet them with the 304 that he builds with his hands every time he scores a goal.
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