Lamine Yamal
Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana (born 13 July 2007) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a right winger for La Liga club Barcelona.

Early life 
Born in Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, to a Moroccan father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, Yamal spent most of his youth in Barcelona.

Club career 
Growing up through the youth ranks of La Masia, Yamal was soon viewed as one of the academy's best prospects. Whilst added to the Juvenil A team—already above his age grade—for the 2022–23 season, Yamal was selected by Xavi to train with the first team along with other youngsters in early September 2022. While 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. 

Yamal made his first-team debut on 29 April 2023, replacing Gavi in the 83rd minute in a 4–0 win against Real Betis in La Liga in which he registered a shot on target against former Barcelona goalkeeper Claudio Bravo and became the youngest player to appear for Barcelona's first team at 15 years, 9 months, and 16 days old. He won his first title with Barça on 14 May 2023, having been part of the squad that won the 2022–23 La Liga. Despite this, he would miss the title celebration the following week due to international duty with Spain.

Yamal earned his first start for the club on 20 August 2023 in a 2–0 victory over Cádiz at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys, becoming the youngest starter for Barcelona in La Liga at the age of 16 years and 38 days. His first start was met with a standing ovation by the fans as he was subbed off with five minutes left in the game. In his next starting appearance, Yamal was named man of the match after contributing towards two goals scored by Gavi and Robert Lewandowski in a 4–3 victory over Villarreal on 28 August 2023. At 16 years and 45 days, he became the youngest player to supply an assist in a La Liga fixture.

International career 
Yamal is a youth international for Spain, having played for the Spanish U15 and U16 squads.

In 2023, he represented Spain's U17 side in the 2023 European U17 Championship with Yamal scoring 4 goals during the tournament. Spain went all the way to the semi-finals where they were knocked out by France following a 3–1 defeat. 

At the age of 16 years and 50 days, Yamal received his first senior international call-up on 1 September 2023 by coach Luis de la Fuente for the 2024 Euros qualifiers against Georgia and Cyprus. If selected within the match squad, Yamal could potentially become the youngest player to represent the nation, breaking Gavi's record who made his debut at 17 years and 62 days old in 2021.

Style of play 
A left-footed forward with great dribbling, passing and scoring abilities, Yamal is able to play both as a centre-forward, an attacking midfielder or a winger, mostly on the right flank.

With his technical profile, he was compared to his idol Lionel Messi, like many La Masia trainees before him, but also to more recent Barça player Ansu Fati.

Career statistics

Club

Honours
Barcelona
La Liga: 2022–23

References

External links 
 https://maharashtraopenuniversity.com/lamine-yamal-biography/
 
 

2007 births
Living people
People from Esplugues de Llobregat
Footballers from the Province of Barcelona
Spanish men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
FC Barcelona players
La Liga players
Spain men's youth international footballers
Spanish sportspeople of Equatoguinean descent
Spanish sportspeople of Moroccan descent