Lamine Yamal
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana | ||
Date of birth | 13 July 2007 | ||
Place of birth | Mataró, Spain | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | FC Barcelona | ||
2014–2022 | FC Barcelona | ||
International career‡ | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2022 | Spain U15 | 6 | (3) |
2021– | Spain U16 | 4 | (1) |
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 6 September 2022 |
Lamine Yamal (born 13 July 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona.[1]
Early life
Born in Mataró, Catalonia, in a family of Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean descent,[2] Lamine Yamal spent most of his youth in Barcelona.[3][4][5]
Club career
Growing through the youth ranks of La Masia, Lamine Yamal was soon viewed as one of the academy's best prospects.[3][6][7][8]
Whilst added to the Juvenil A team—already above his age grade—for the 2022–23 season,[7] he was selected by Xavi to train with the first team along other youngster in early September 2022.[2][4] Whilst still yet to sign his first professional contract with the club, Yama appeared to be one of the academy members to most impress the Catalan coach.[6][9][10]
International career
Lamine Yamal is a youth international for both Spain and Catalonia.[11] In 2021, he played 4 games and scored 1 goal for Spain Under-16s.[4]
In 2022 he also played with the Under-15, with whom he proved to be a prolific goalscorer.[12]
Style of play
A left-footed forward with great dribbling, passing and scoring abilities, he is able to play both as a centre-forward, an attacking midfielder or a winger, mostly on the right flank.[2][4][6][9][11]
With his technical profile, he was soon compared to Catalan idol Lionel Messi, like many La Masia trainee before him,[2][3][13][14], but also to more recent Barça star Ansu Fati.[6][7][15]
References
- ^ Lamine Yamal at Soccerway. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ a b c d Corbella, Enrique (5 September 2022). "Lamine Yamal, el niño de 15 años que ya entrena con el Barcelona: descubre al "mini Messi" de La Masía". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c Picó, Diego; Gillingham, Geoff (28 December 2019). "Lamine Yamal shows shades of Messi". Marca. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d "FC Barcelona: Wird Lamine Yamal (15) der nächste Lionel Messi?". Sport Bild (in German). 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "La saison 19/20 du prodige de la Masia, Lamine Yamal". Lions de l'Atlas (in French). 18 November 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b c d Fernández, Jonathan (4 September 2022). "La Masía alumbra a su 'nuevo Ansu'". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ a b c Martínez, Ferran (31 August 2022). "Julián Araujo, un 'tapado' para el lateral derecho". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "El noi de 15 anys que ja entrena amb el Barça de Xavi". Esport3 (in Catalan). CCMA. 4 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Lawless, Josh (5 September 2022). "15 year-old Lamine Yamal was called up to Barcelona's first-team training, Xavi is 'in love' with him". SPORTbible. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Promessa de 15 anos encanta Xavi e treina com elenco do Barcelona". Globo Esporte (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ a b Peyret, Didac (4 September 2022). "¿Quién es Lamine Yamal? La perla de 15 años que ya entrena con Xavi". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ "Rojita U15 : Lamine Yamal s'éclate face à la Suisse (vidéo)". Lions de l'Atlas (in French). 7 May 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
- ^ Rassouli, Thomas (28 December 2019). "Barça : le successeur de Messi déjà au club ?". Onze Mondial (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Xavi wil meer zien van 'mini-Messi' Yamal (15)". Voetbal International. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Matrone, Pierpaolo (5 September 2022). "Il Barça scopre 'il nuovo Ansu Fati': presto primo contratto da professionista per Lamine Yamal". TUTTOmercatoWEB.com (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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External links
- Lamine Yamal at Soccerway