For a year and a half, Lamine Yamal has been splashing the lawns with his talent, with Spain and FC Barcelona. All this, while he is not yet 18 years old. Already at the Catalan club’s training center, Yamal was working wonders with the ball. In any case, this is what Xavi Vilajoana, former manager of La Masia and the Barça reserve team, reported, who also admitted that the native of Esplugues de Llobregat had special treatment.
“ We made an exception (with Yamal), because normally the players who lived and slept in La Masia were young people who lived outside Catalonia. In the case of Lamine, we found that the socio-economic and family environment was not entirely suitable for his training and personal development. We thought he needed a more balanced and controlled environment. We wanted to bring him to La Masia, we talked to his parents about it and finally, after thinking about it for a long time, they agreed. To be honest, it hasn’t been easyVilajoana told Acebefore talking about the precocity of Yamal. No one could have predicted this explosion. We knew he had huge potential and was a different player from the others. But the speed with which he established himself and adapted to the first team surprised us all. »
