What on earth is Xavi cooking at Barcelona right now? Lamine Yamal has arrived on the scene and is taking the world by storm, embarrassing defenders of all ages who dare step in his path. When it emerged that he’d been invited into training with the first team aged just 15 in September 2022, plenty of people began to look at Xavi as though he had two heads. But since then, young Yamal has continually shown the world that his head coach made the correct decision as he embarks on a sickeningly quick ascent to superstardom. He’s not even old enough to buy the latest rendition of Call of Duty. He was barely a year old when Manchester City were taken over by Abu Dhabi.
It's all too easy to draw comparisons between the two players—Yamil wouldn't have played Playstation 2 for crying out loud, let alone remembered it from commercials during UCL nights in the 2000s—but here he is in 2023, unable to legally put on the lottery or drive himself to training, and he still has the ability to tie up groups of defenders in knots when they try to double up on him in the bright lights of the Champions League. As Barcelona managed to get past Shakhtar Donetsk, with another La Masia gem steal the show, Yamal stayed out of the spotlight that evening, but still found time to humiliate the opposition.
It's all too tempting to compare the young player to past Barcelona greats like Messi, Ronaldinho, and others, but it's hard to ignore the high praise when he displays moments like this of pure dribbling wizardry.
Shakhtar doubled up on the 16-year-old, giving him no room to escape; he followed all the rules and ought to have been able to hold him in check.
However, as we've shown, this 16-year-old is not like the others. Really, how in the world did he manage to see a gap in such a confined space and then suddenly jump into it?Yamal skillfully puts together a library of flicks and tricks in just a few seconds, convincing enough for the average person to give up their local forever leave the local five-a-side league and never return.
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