Lamine Yamal celebrated his 50 first game at FC Barcelonain a new precocity record in the club’s history, creating one of the three goals that helped Rayo Vallecano defeat Montjuïc with a brilliant assist to Robert Lewandowski. At 16 years, 10 months and 6 days, is the youngest footballer in the history of the entity to reach that number of games. If the first greeting on the pitch of the Estadi Olímpic came from his ‘assistant’, Lewandowski, after the game it was coach Xavi Hernández who paid tribute to him while asking that his young star be taken care of by the Barcelona fans. “We are talking about a very important player for the present and the future, so it is very nice to enjoy him, see him happy and take care of him so that he can be at this level for many years,” he wished .
In his reflection, Xavi He recalled that at that age it was really rare for a player to be so transcendental. “Let the team, let any culé watching the game or me as a coach know that when a 16-year-old boy has the ball, different things happen, well…! “.
The speed at which the winger progresses through the stages has an impact. This Sunday he surpassed the precocity record of Bojan Krkic, who reached 50 official matches at the age of 18 years and 3 days in August 2008. Pedro González ‘Pedri’ and Leo Messi complete the Top-4 of the youngest player to reach 50 matches with Barça: The Canary Islander did it when he was 18 years, 5 months and 13 days old and the Argentine genius did it when he was 19 years, 7 months and 17 days old. The data is impressive: this is almost three years older than Messi needed to reach 50 games for Barça. And we are talking about the best football player of all time.
Lamine Yamal is also this season Barça’s youngest debutant in the Champions League and the second youngest in the entire history of the European tournament, after making his debut on Barça-Royal Antwerp day at the age of just 16 years and 68 days. Also during this season, Lamine scored his first goal in the Granada field at the age of 16 years and 87 days, becoming the youngest scorer in Liga history. The same thing happened in the Copa del Rey, in 16 years and 195 days, and in the Spanish Super Cup, in 16 years and 182 days.
That, with the Barça shirt. With the senior Spanish team, Lamine is also the precocious record holder, having made his debut and scored a goal in September 2023 in Georgia when he was 16 years and 57 days old.
Source: La Verdad
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