Lamine Yamal, far from impressing like Messi

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By: Manu Tournoux

When Lamine Yamal was spotted at FC Barcelona, ​​he seemed less talented than Lionel Messi.

This Tuesday evening, FC Barcelona travels to San Siro to face Inter Milan on the occasion of the semi-finals return from the Champions League. During the first leg (3-3), Lamine Yamal Avat scored one of the goals of the year.

An achievement that had rekindled the comparisons between the number 19 Blaugrana and Lionel Messi. Indeed, the Spanish international continues to beat precocity records, like “La Pulga” at the start of his career.

However, the trainer who discovered it had not immediately made the analogy at the time. “When I see him for the first time, I don't think of Messi”,
says Oscar Hernandez in the columns of The team. “When I saw it at the start, I didn't feel the same as with Messi”, Added the man recruited him to FC Barcelona, ​​Albert Puig.

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His father does not have the same speech. “Lamine has been doing this since he was five years old. No one will stop it. It is a beast, and what we have seen does not even represent 10% of what it is capable of doing, I promise you ”, said Mounir Nasraoui during the famous program “El Chiringuito”.

Lamine Yamal had joined the FC Barcelona training center, the Masia, at the age of seven. Ten years later, he already seems able to win the Ballon d'Or.