Spanish football expert Guillem Balague looks at Lamine Yamal's rise to becoming the youngest player in European Championship history.
The Barcelona star became the youngest man to play at the European Championship as he played a key role in
Having already played 51 times for Barcelona, scoring seven goals, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised to see Yamal mixing it with the very best.An outrageously precocious talent, Yamal will turn 17 on 13 July, the day before the final. Former Barcelona reporter and current Sport TV journalist Jaume Marcet remembers the day he knew he was watching a prodigy.
It is a homage to the neighbourhood where he was raised, Rocafonda 304, an area of Barcelona rarely seen by the millions of tourists who flock to Catalonia's capital and one of the most deprived zones, not just in Catalonia but in the whole of the Spain. Yamal fell in love with football watching his father and older cousin play in the park opposite where he lived and where he would be spotted.
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