Everything goes very quickly in the career of Lamine Yamal. Winner of Euro 2024 with Spain, La Liga, the King's Cup and the Spanish Super Cup with FC Barcelona in 2025, but also double holding the title of the Kopa Trophy rewarding the best hope in the world, the young winger (18) burns the stages. To the point of having already passed very close to the Ballon d'Or, Ousmane Dembélé having finally been preferred to him.
A trajectory that forces admiration and respect. But for Emmanuel Petit, everything may be too fast. The 1998 world champion actually fears for mental health and even fears a burnout for the prodigy Blaugrana. “” Do I worry about Lamine Yamal? Yes, without a doubthe confides to Olbg.com Before Barça-Psg in the Champions League. He is an incredibly talented player, still very young. »»
“What he accomplishes on the ground with one of the biggest clubs in the world is simply incredible. Honestly, it reminds me of other very talented young players who, by dint of playing every three days, ended up falling under pressure and disappeared the following year. This may be due to injuries, but it is difficult to endure this pressure permanently ”he says.
Lamine Yamal victim of a burnout?
If “Pressure does not seem to affect it for the moment”the former Midskin in the Blues notes that the Catalan jewel is a little athletic.
“Physically, I think we can feel that he is suffering”he observes. What his recent pubis injury confirms. “They did not play during the Club World Cup, so he had time to rest physically and mentally, but he must be very careful”, Emper Emmanuel Petit.
“I think the way he is managed there is goodhe continues. Barcelona continues to win matches without him, which is very important. It gives him time to recover and come back in force. This reminds me of the young high -level players who start their career and who suddenly take a break because of injuries or because they suffer from too much pressure. »»
And the former Arsenal and Barça player to quote the previous Cole Palmer with Chelsea and Phil Foden with Manchester Cty. “You cannot stay at the top for 12, 13 or 14 years in your career, unless you are the next Cristiano Ronaldo, that is to say a machine, a cyborg. There is only one Ronaldo, so it is quite difficult to achieve these objectives and these ambitions each season, “he concludes.
