Lamine Yamal

Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for FC Barcelona youth team in the División de Honor Juvenil de Fútbol.[1]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Nasraoui and the second or maternal family name is Ebana.
Lamine Yamal
Personal information
Full name Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana
Date of birth (2007-07-13) 13 July 2007
Place of birth Mataró, Spain
Position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 FC Barcelona
Youth career
Years Team
2012– FC Barcelona
International career‡
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022 Spain U15 6 (3)
2021– Spain U16 4 (1)
2022– Spain U17 2 (1)
2022– Spain U19 1 (0)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 October 2022

Early life

Born in Mataró, Spain, to a Moroccan father and an Equatorial Guinean mother,[2][3] Lamine Yamal spent most of his youth in Barcelona.[4][5][6]

Club career

Growing through the youth ranks of La Masia, Lamine Yamal was soon viewed as one of the academy's best prospects.[4][7][8][9]

Whilst added to the Juvenil A team—already above his age grade—for the 2022–23 season,[8] he was selected by Xavi to train with the first team along other youngster in early September 2022.[2][5] Whilst still yet to sign his first professional contract with the club, he appeared to be one of the academy members to most impress the Catalan coach.[7][10][11]

International career

Lamine Yamal is a youth international for Spain.[12] In 2021, he played 4 games and scored 1 goal for Spain Under-16s.[5]

In 2022 he also played with the Under-15, with whom he proved to be a prolific goalscorer.[13]

Style of play

A left-footed forward with great dribbling, passing and scoring abilities, he is able to play both as a centre-forward, an attacking midfielder or a winger, mostly on the right flank.[2][5][7][10][12]

With his technical profile, he was soon compared to Argentinian idol Lionel Messi, like many La Masia trainee before him,[2][4][14][15] but also to more recent Barça star Ansu Fati.[7][8][16]

References
  1. Lamine Yamal at Soccerway. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  2. Corbella, Enrique (5 September 2022). "Lamine Yamal, el niño de 15 años que ya entrena con el Barcelona: descubre al "mini Messi" de La Masía". Marca (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. "Tiene 15 años, lo comparan con Messi y ya se entrena con Xavi en el Barcelona". 23 September 2022.
  4. Picó, Diego; Gillingham, Geoff (28 December 2019). "Lamine Yamal shows shades of Messi". Marca. Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "FC Barcelona: Wird Lamine Yamal (15) der nächste Lionel Messi?". Sport Bild (in German). 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. "La saison 19/20 du prodige de la Masia, Lamine Yamal". Lions de l'Atlas (in French). 18 November 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. Fernández, Jonathan (4 September 2022). "La Masía alumbra a su 'nuevo Ansu'". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  8. Martínez, Ferran (31 August 2022). "Julián Araujo, un 'tapado' para el lateral derecho". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  9. "El noi de 15 anys que ja entrena amb el Barça de Xavi". Esport3 (in Catalan). CCMA. 4 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. Lawless, Josh (5 September 2022). "15 year-old Lamine Yamal was called up to Barcelona's first-team training, Xavi is 'in love' with him". SPORTbible. Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  11. "Promessa de 15 anos encanta Xavi e treina com elenco do Barcelona". Globo Esporte (in Brazilian Portuguese). 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  12. Peyret, Didac (4 September 2022). "¿Quién es Lamine Yamal? La perla de 15 años que ya entrena con Xavi". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  13. "Rojita U15 : Lamine Yamal s'éclate face à la Suisse (vidéo)". Lions de l'Atlas (in French). 7 May 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  14. Rassouli, Thomas (28 December 2019). "Barça : le successeur de Messi déjà au club ?". Onze Mondial (in French). Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  15. "Xavi wil meer zien van 'mini-Messi' Yamal (15)". Voetbal International. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  16. Matrone, Pierpaolo (5 September 2022). "Il Barça scopre 'il nuovo Ansu Fati': presto primo contratto da professionista per Lamine Yamal". TUTTOmercatoWEB.com (in Italian). Retrieved 6 September 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)


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