Pep Guardiola compares Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal

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By: Manu Tournoux

For two years, Lamine Yamal has been the new feeling of world football. Pruption and irresistibly better match after match, the FC Barcelona engineering is taking an incredible dimension this season. Author of an XXL season with Barça (18 goals, 25 assists in 55 games), the 17 -year -old winger is in the running to win the Ballon d'Or next September. An accomplishment which would allow him to become the youngest Ballon d'Or in history and which would already place him among the best players in history.

Inevitably compared to Lionel Messi by his journey and his pulga similarities, Lamine Yamal is not disturbed by these incredible comparisons. This Friday, it was Pep Guardiola who spoke on the similarities between the two players at the microphone of Dazn. And for the former Barça coach and ex-Iron of Argentinian, Lionel Messi remains above the lot: “Lamine Yamal? We are very lucky at Barça to have found a boy with a vision … I'm not going to say like Leo, I'm really sorry. For me, there will be no one, nobody, no one in the world like Messi. It is impossible.»»