Parents often neglect a young child’s personality, thinking, “Aah, what does he/she know? We won’t ask him/her anything”, and thus emotionally cripple him for the rest of his life. On the other hand, when they are able to talk with him from an early age as with an adult, they influence the creation of a sense of self-respect and, at the same time, suppress the possibility of arrogance and excessive pride appearing due to insufficient maturity. And since last night, the whole world knows about a prudent, clever, in a word, genius child. No, it is definitely not just another in a line of gifted children with refined movements and a sense of space.All the rivals knew that he was one of the most talented in the world, and despite that, they did nothing to convince them that they were fully aware of what it was actually about. It’s not about potential that you see once in five or ten years, Lamine Yamal is seen once in a quarter of a century. Never until the semi-finals of this year’s European Championship had a 16-year-old scored at such a late stage in a major competition, and the Barcelona prodigy outscored none other than Pele. The Spanish international is de facto and de jure the player with the richest biography of a minor since the legendary Brazilian. Neither Maradona, nor Messi, nor Cristiano Ronaldo had such brilliant moments at this level of football at Yamal’s age.##NAJAVA_MECA_8203995##Neither Julian Nagelsmann nor Didier Deschamps understood what Yamal really is and that is why, among other things, they are tactically outwitted by Luis de la Fuente. The Spanish strategist waited until he got a chance on the big stage at the age of 63 and continued to do what Xavi tried during the season and to some extent (according to his knowledge) succeeded – to shape Yamal into a player who at the age of 16 is a complete package, both in terms of ball skills and psychological profile.And that particular child already knows that he “knows his own voice”, knows his calling and makes it clear to everyone that he is not ashamed of his origin, which caused a certain group of the Spanish population to laugh at him along political lines. They call Yamal’s Rocafonda neighbourhood a multicultural dump, and he celebrates goals by displaying his birthplace’s zip code of 304 and proudly pointing out the fact that he is the child of a Moroccan and an Equatorial Guinean.Yamal’s “warm crib” is in the most remote part of Catalonia, and it is a big question whether, in any other part, he would be so well tucked away and have such a potential to ignite innate talent. And that Lamine’s street reminds of Brazilian favelas, a typical poor neighborhood full of immigrants from Africa, South America and Eastern Europe. Where dribbling skills are learned, where imagination runs wild.Mbappe: My EURO was a failure, let me rest and start a new lifeYamal wears all this proudly, fame has not clouded his mind, he comes from a family where honor and honesty are very important, and because of all this, he is on the way to becoming a great man. We repeat, still on the road, because fame and power are insidious companions of that dark part that exists in every man, but everything that Lamine has shown so far with his behaviour indicates that there is no concern from that side.His football skills are not in doubt, his head is still in place, and if he shines once more on the upcoming Sunday, those comparisons with the best in history will be inevitable. And it’s a good thing that they will hit on Gareth Southgate or Ronald Koeman as coaches who should come up with tactics to stop him. At first glance, something that does not inspire confidence in fans of England or the Netherlands that the two experts will do better than their previous rivals.It will be the last chance for anyone else to be surprised by Lamine Yamal. After Sunday night, it will be a completely different life for the 16-year-old, one with the burden of being the world’s most talented player born in the current millennium.Lamine Yamal celebra sus goles haciendo el código postal (304) del barrio obrero de Rocafonda en el que ha crecido y que la ultraderecha de VOX llama “estercolero multicultural”. Enorme. pic.twitter.com/VjBrdjcrPw— Fonsi Loaiza (@FonsiLoaiza) July 9, 2024
