Lamine Yamal has won more major trophies at 18 than Lionel Messi had at the same age.
At just 18, Lamine has won 3 La Liga titles, 3 domestic cups, and a European Championship with Spain before even turning 19. Messi at 18 was still only beginning to break into Barcelona’s first team, winning just 2 by that time.
Which honestly says less about Messi…and more about how absurd Lamine’s rise has been.
Barcelona are not slowly developing him anymore. He is already the face of title races, Clásicos, and Champions League nights while still technically being a teenager.
The dangerous part for the rest of football is that this does not even feel like the finished version yet.
Whether he reaches Messi’s level is another conversation entirely. That is the hardest standard in football history.
But Barcelona spent years wondering who would carry the club after Messi.
Now they have an 18-year-old La Masia product making people ask impossible questions again.
Lamine Yamal has won more major trophies at 18 than Lionel Messi had at the same age.
At just 18, Lamine has won 3 La Liga titles, 3 domestic cups, and a European Championship with Spain before even turning 19. Messi at 18 was still only beginning to break into Barcelona’s first team, winning just 2 by that time.
Which honestly says less about Messi…and more about how absurd Lamine’s rise has been.
Barcelona are not slowly developing him anymore. He is already the face of title races, Clásicos, and Champions League nights while still technically being a teenager.
The dangerous part for the rest of football is that this does not even feel like the finished version yet.
Whether he reaches Messi’s level is another conversation entirely. That is the hardest standard in football history.
But Barcelona spent years wondering who would carry the club after Messi.
Now they have an 18-year-old La Masia product making people ask impossible questions again.
