FC Barcelona legend Luis Suarez praised teenage celebrity Lamine Yamal forward of his present employer … Extra
Getty PhotographsFC Barcelona legend Luis Suarez praised teenage celebrity Lamine Yamal forward of his present employer Inter Miami kicking off its Membership World Cup marketing campaign.
After making his debut as a 15-year-old in 2023 after which profitable the Euros with Spain final summer season, Lamine has simply accomplished a treble-winning season beneath Hansi Flick which has seen him turn out to be one of many favourites to win the Ballon d’Or later this 12 months.
He’s usually in comparison with seven-time winner and fellow La Masia graduate Lionel Messi, and the Argentine’s shut good friend Suarez, who shares a locker room with the quantity 10 in Miami once more, praised the winger whereas on media duties.
“Lamine is a participant who at 17 years of age is displaying nice maturity. He takes accountability in vital video games, they’re challenges that he units himself and as a Barcelona fan I’m very completely happy for him,” Suarez first mentioned.
Similar to Cristiano Ronaldo warned the soccer world about not placing an excessive amount of stress on Lamine, Suarez suggested him “to proceed having fun with [himself]
and acquire expertise to proceed bettering within the issues he nonetheless has to be taught, as all of us discovered once we have been 18 years previous.”
Despite his younger age, nevertheless, Suarez has little question that we’re watching “a participant who’s marking an period and [making] a really massive distinction”.
As for Inter Miami, which kicks off its Membership World Cup marketing campaign on Saturday by taking up Al-Alhy, Suarez thinks that the David Beckham-owned outfit can get by means of to the knockout stage regardless of the likes of Porto and Palmeiras additionally making up the remainder of the pack.
“We face a really troublesome and aggressive group, from which we are going to attempt to advance by doing our greatest, then we are going to see who will probably be our subsequent opponent,” Suarez mentioned.
FC Barcelona is not going to play on the Membership World Cup
It would in fact be not possible to search out FC Barcelona on the Membership World Cup after it did not qualify for the newly-reimagined FIFA event. Although the Blaugrana might do with a number of the prize cash on provide, figures corresponding to physio Julio Tous believes that Barca will go into subsequent season with a bonus over Spanish corresponding to Atletico Madrid and Actual Madrid, who may very well be fatigued.
