Projections of the future talent of Lamine Yamal are unimportant.
If his career ended today, the winger would have reached more than 99 percent of football players to play the game. Within a few months he can add a continent treble to the LaLiga title, the Spanish cup and the European championship that he already has in his cabinet.
Comparisons with Lionel Messi are superfluous. Because the teenager hurt to stress, “makes the comparison [no] feeling'. In fact, the late comparisons with Yamal, not Argentina feel large, unfair.
The rise of the wing player in the game in recent years was really amazing. The early mature talent got his start in the first team of Barcelona under former manager Xavi at a time when the financial mismanagement of the Catalan club made them a joke among the elite of European football.
In the midst of the endless levers and failure to register signing sessions for their competition squadrons, Barca appeared an extraordinary talent. Indeed, it seems that the recent graduates from La Masia – including people as current first teamers Gavi, Pau Cubarsi, Fermin Lopez and Alejandro Bald – can compete with the astonishing schedule of Pep Guardiola in the late 2000s.
Xavi reportedly played a key role in ensuring that Yamal remained in Barcelona when the French giants Paris Saint-Germain Wind of the talent of the then 15-year-old caught.
According to Mundo Deportivo, Xavi promised the teenager that he would give him first team minutes if he signed his first professional contract with the club. The legend of Barcelona was good at his word and handed the young person his debut in April 2023, when he became the youngest player who represented the club just 15 years, nine months and 16 days old.
Yamal also followed his commitment and wrote his first pro -deal that remarkably a release clause was worth € 1 billion (£ 868 million).
“We receive crazy bids for players such as Lamine Yamal around € 200 million and of course we reject,” said Barca president Joan Laporta last March. “We trust Lamine and we don't have to sell.”
Forget his age, Yamal has enjoyed a run of two years, but few players will ever experience.
His debut campaign only yielded those seven LaLiga minutes against Real Betis when Xavi's men insured the competition title. In the following season he became a favorite of football fans around the world, but also attracted the unwanted attention – and danger – which is often accompanied by fame.
Yamal was born from Mounir Nasraoui and Sheila Ebana in 2007 and raised in the Spanish city of Mataro. During his surprising Euro 2024 -Run he continued to honor his hometown with his '304' celebration and his father, an immigrant from Morocco, was a constant supporter.
But not long after the competition where his son was appointed young player of the tournament, Nasraoui was attacked in a parking lot and then rushed to the hospital.
According to La Vanguardia, the residents claimed that Nasraoui had a fight with some individuals while walking his dog, with the dispute resulting in a fight before Nasraoui was stabbed several times.
The 35-year-old was admitted to an intensive care in a serious condition, but a few hours after the shock stitches became stable. Catalan police confirmed that four people were arrested shortly after the incident.
The episode, which took place a month after Spain's triumph over England in Berlin, would certainly have shaken Yamal and his family to their core. His parents, whose relationship ended in 2010, seem public public and his fiery defenders of their son.
Nasraoui was fired from the hospital on August 16 and continued to praise the teenager. He too had ambitions to become a football player in the professional ranks of Spain, but was unable to make the number and then went to the employment where he took several jobs to close together.
His stitches marked the second post-euro low for the young person after the very public and messy breakdown of his relationship with Tiktok star Alex Padilla.
Padilla had joined Yamal's family on the field of the Olympiastadion when La Roja celebrated their fourth continental crown in July. The couple was inseparable, but only a few weeks later she was apparently seen on a lap of another boy in an Instagram -Live video that led a feverish speculation about the status of their relationship.
Padilla, who follows a tap of 1.9 million, was present for various group matches of La Roja in Germany and was often seen next to the Barcelona -wing player family.
According to the sun, the couple also stabbed to Milan and Greece when the 17-year-old made the most out of his well-deserved break. But their budding romance came to an abrupt end after the video on social media, where the Spanish outlet Mundo Deportivo claimed that Yamal did not follow the influencer.
The images of Padilla with another boy brought some on the platform to accuse her of cheating the football player.
However, it seems that the tumultuous summer of Yamal has done little to influence its versions on the field. The winger returned to his club and started producing a stunning campaign.
When it comes to the raw figures, Yamal still has enough space to grow. In 49 performances for the Blaugrana he registered this period of 15 goals and 24 assists.
What is more remarkable about the young person is his ability to perform when the lights shine brightest.
“He shows up in the big competitions and I think he enjoyed the situation,” said his manager Hansi Flick after his excellent display in the 3-3 draw with Inter Milan on Wednesday evening.
The German agreed with his counterpart Simeone Inzaghi's claim that the winger is a 'genius' and added: “I am really happy that this talent, as long as it comes every 50, as Simone said, I am happy that it is for Barcelona.”
Wednesday's collision also marked the 100 performances for the teenager in Barcelona colors. At that time he has 22 goals to his name and assists another 27.
Comparisons with Messi are understandable, indeed, they are fed by Yamal's own family. Last year his father claimed that his son could be even bigger than the eight times Ballon d'Or winner, while his mother participated in a now notorious charity calendar next to the Argentina Great, where he can bathe a Babylamine.
But a too dense of an inspection does not do well in the long term. Football has changed drastically, even since Messi the Supreme if the best in the world did not reign six years ago.
Yamal, a 17-year-old, already has commercial relationships with worldwide brands, including Beats Electronics, Powerade, the electronics company Oppo and Konami next to his huge deal with Adidas.
He is one of the most recognizable faces in the game and rises at a time when one bad performance of spot performance on social media – and you can wake a great one in Ballon d'Or rocket.
Progress is not linear. There is no guarantee that Yamal will continue to improve for years. How much better can he? What is clear is that he is already one of the best football players on the planet, perhaps even the very best.