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During Napoli-Barça (1-1), Wednesday evening in the Champions League, Thierry Henry was amazed by the performance of Lamine Yamal, the right winger of the Blaugrana, who is still only 16 years old!
At 16 years old (he will celebrate his 17th birthday in July), Lamine Yamal is still going strong. Taking advantage of Raphinha’s absence, the player trained at Barça put together very good performances on the right wing of the Blaugranas and made a difference for his team during the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League against Napoli (1 -1), Wednesday evening at Maradona.
Thierry Henry was greatly impressed by the new FCB prodigy. “ Lamine Yamal, at 16, he plays like in the park “, he said on the set of CBS Sports Golazo, after the meeting. He is the 98 world champion who played for Pep Guardiola’s Barça and won the 2009 LDC with a certain Lionel Messi as a teammate (Samuel Eto’o was the center forward).
Record after record!
For his first season among the pros, Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (his full name, his father is Moroccan, his mother is Equatoguinean) has three goals and three assists in Liga, one assist in seven C1 matches as well as two goals in national cups. He is now the youngest player in the history of the LDC!
Yamal was called up to the Spanish Seleccion last September and scored his very first professional goal in the national team, against Georgia, becoming the youngest scorer in the history of La Roja at 16 years and 57 days. He has since scored a second goal. He is on track to participate in the next Euro in Germany.
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