A few warning words for those who will take advantage Lameine yamalPerformance in Spain‘S UEFA Nations League Final defeat Portugal To keep the child down because they feel that he has been overheated: first, the pound for the pound, he is still the best footballer in the world, a real phenomenon and description worthy of “budding talent”. Secondly, this man is made of the same extraordinary goods, the same resolution “I will show you!” Determination and drive that created Lionel Messi And Cristiano Ronaldo Such legends.
Please be clear: Those who try to cut it into shape to choose this moment, they will be forced to eat their words very soon. I know that these people are present because I spoke to one of them in the last few days, UEFA Champions League-Winning managers are more on him.
I too have got a chance to analyze Yamal in very close quarters.
In the last 15 months, I have interviewed him for something like an hour and a half and one and a half hours, composed of two 30-minute television interviews and several postmatch stand-up interviews. I want you to be clear that it is a destructive talented, explosive footballer a streetwaise, hard-nosed, high-octane mentality.
Every media representative (from a huge international array) was packed before losing to Portugal, any player was asked – Spanish, French, German or Portuguese – whether Yamal should win Bellon D’Or in September.
Then, not only Barcelona The Youngster failed to win a singles match, Ronaldo played a major role in Portugal, which became the first team to win the tournament twice. (Yamal played a role in both Spain balls, put two fierce shots on the target and set up Nico Williams For a very big occasion, but hey, who now cares about the facts?)
For hate, this was a chance: Look! The appropriate order was restored. Back to your box. Young puppy! The media was full of people who thought that Yamal insulted Portugal after presenting the trophy. Now what will happen that the 17-year-old (who has 74 career targets and assistance) will go away and nurses their anger.
His main Bellon D’Or Contestants (Kylian mbappa, Ocean dambale And Vitinha) Now excessive drainage of a few weeks, unnecessary FIFA football will be removed from the warm temperature of the US summer and according to the definition, your summer comfort – and preparation of the presiden – preparation of the presence. again.
Meanwhile, the teenager will celebrate his 18th birthday on holiday. He will rest. He will be admitted. He will imbibe the extraordinary experiences he had during the last year. And he will plan his attack on all clubs and individual trophies that are available for them in the coming 12 months – including the World Cup.
In other words, he is going to start the 2025-26 season in good mental and physical shape and he “I will show you all!” The attitude that I warned you. It is a feature that he definitely shares with Ronaldo and Messi.
I explain
My first interview with Messi came in late 2006 when he suffered the first huge shock of his career, when his coach, Frank Rijkard, failed to include him in the Barca squad. Champions League Final against Arsenal last May. Do you remember what happened next?
Messi assured that he was fit after a long repetition from hamstring problems, so furious at his omission that when his companions won the trophy, the flat refused to come down and celebrated with him on the sted de France pitch. Messi’s trademark was caught by cruel stubbornness and even his guru could change his mind, not Ronaldinho.
By the time I spoke to him, about eight weeks later, Messi repeated.
“I was angry. I really got away,” he said. “I have made a bad option, but I have learned from it. I will not do it again and God is ready, I will have a chance to win this trophy again in the future.”
At the age of 18, Messi did this, used that fury to run himself. The way Messi felt, and Yamal will now feel (especially if he is a crust in Ballon D’Or) rocket fuel. Extraordinary sports stars soak necklaces, jokes and pain, and then faces a month -door -to -satered vengeance.
Ronaldo has a similar story.
Do you remember that while Manchester UnitedHis colleagues mercilessly teased him for his incomplete color, for the choice of clothes, for his teeth position, and then finally the ball to distribute the ball in the middle – especially the Rud Van Nistaelroy – it wanted it? These experiences reduced Ronaldo in tears. Now talk to those former-man United colleagues and they will tell you that Ronaldo soaked all the jokes and used it to convert himself into a frightening major team leader-in United, in, in, real Madrid And for Portugal.
Yamal will do the same.
Champions League Eradicated in semi -finals inter Milan Will be, but the 17 -year -old played almost beautiful and almost supernatural competing in both legs against Italians. Sunday’s finals will have a slightly different effect.
Just when many people around him were lacking fizz, invention and efficacy, their unique youth could not produce enough magic. Take my word for this, in the next few weeks, many (walk on social media) in football or media will trumpet that he is not yet a lot of Bellon D’Or.
Meanwhile, this street fighter must have been watching, resentment, setting new targets and enjoying what has happened after the break in Barcelona’s first team at the age of 15, enjoying its first opportunity to assimilate what has happened.
When I interviewed him for another of my long chat, in this previous spring, Yamal saw our conversation again from the previous year.
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Are Yamal and Does the next Messi and Ronaldo?
Gab Markoti and Julian Laurence argued whether Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo with Lamin Yamal and Decere Doa are “prematurely” comparison between Yamal and Dasire Doa.
“You can really see a lot of changes: my hair, my body, my face, everything. Even the way I answered the questions,” he said. “All this was new to me, but now I am more habitable for it.
“I think I have changed a lot; maybe not in the context of my personality, but what is visible.
He is charting his own development, and he knows that it is fast.
This was not long after this interview, during which he admitted that Nuno Mendes His toughest was one by one, that Yamal announced: “Those who say that I am egoistic, I say that as long as I win, you cannot say anything to me.” And he used social media to make fun of Rafael Van der Wart, who criticized Yamal after Spain ended Netherlands From the nation league.
Now he is working with defeat and ridicule. Now another part of his remarkable character will be quick.
It will take a long time, if ever, to match the figures for Yamal and Messi and Ronaldo’s silverware, but their mindset? He is about to start demonstrating that he is made up of the same stuff.
