Lamine Yamal turns 18 and takes centre stage at Barcelona
Statistics are particularly remarkable when you think about your age. And they continue to develop.
Since its first release, Barcelona has only come to the fore once during the 2022-23 championship campaign, but has won two La Liga championships. Since then, he has missed only four league matches in the last two seasons. He also lifted Copa Del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup. On the international stage, he has already won the European Championship with Spain.
Everything wants: to lead, score, win. But he has a calm in his ambition. He doesn’t just dream of being better, he also works.
Most importantly, he knows he’s not there yet. This balance between trust and humility is still what allows him to play with such freedom, as in the school yard.
Everything starts at home. Parents, often open to public, but rarely understood, play an important role in keeping their feet on the ground. His father Sağlam describes this as it is, and the success of his son’s success is very public – perhaps exposed to the public judgment.
His mother and grandmother offer a different type of power – consistent, loving and in -depth values. They are silent forces that form the basis of everything.
He’s not an overwhelmed young man in this way, he looks like a child who’s enjoying the game. It does not depend on the ignorance of pressure. This is a mentality, a mentality that believes that the best is still the future, and if it does not come, it will continue to chase it.
Before the Champions League final, he said: “At my age, very few played a lot of games for a club like Barca and I value the most. It is not something that anyone can do for a club like Barca.”
“I left this fear behind in Mataro some time ago,” when asked about failure pressure or fear of playing at high level. He said.
He referred to his old field in the Rocafonda region and played with three, four and larger others as a child.
The celebration is a praise from the place where it has come – a multicultural community in Mataro, a busy population, known for its social challenges and a strong sense of local identity. The last three issues of the postal code are the shape of their fingers when they score goals, 304.
