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]

Early life

Born in Mataró, Catalonia, 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, Yama 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 Catalan 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

External links

• Lamine Yamal at Soccerway