19 goals and 22 assists in all competitions. For its second year at the highest level, with FC Barcelona and Spain, Lamine Yamal is already positioned among the big favorites for the Ballon d'Or. Winner of the Liga, the King's Cup and the Spanish Super Cup with the Blaugranas, a year after winning Euro 2024 with La Roja, the young prodigy (17) has won almost everything this season.
The only disappointment on the board: the elimination of the Catalan club at the gates of the Champions League final, eliminated by Inter Milan after a double confrontation that will remain in the Annals (3-3 in Montjuic, 4-3 in San Siro). A dazzling ascent that should bring it even higher, sportingly but not only. The Spanish crack will already have a huge leap wage with the XXL extension which prepares BarƧa.
Lamine Yamal like Lionel Messi or Ansu Fati?
In terms of marketing too, his career could take off spectacularly. Lamine Yamal should thus inherit the legendary number 10 in the Barcelona locker room and this, next season. The rumor, which has been traveling in Catalonia for several weeks, was confirmed this weekend, Foot transfer window revealing that he posed with this jersey during the photo sessions made for the new FCB tunic.
A detail? Not really. Having the number 10 in the back is never trivial for a footballer, even less at BarƧa, where he belonged to the legendary Lionel Messi. It is now in Lamine Yamal to show that he can hold the comparison with the Argentinian Golden Ball. Before him, Ansu Fati tried there by recovering this bib in September 2021. But his career could never take off, due to many physical seeds.
