Lamine Yamal: “It would be a dream to lift the Champions League”

In an interview with the club’s magazine, Lamine Yamal assured that in ten years time he will be winning titles with Barça.

Lamine Yamal was the star of the latest edition of Barcelona’s official club Magazine. The stellar performances of the youth player has been one of the best pieces of news of this season for Barça, who are delighted to see yet another footballer that has emerged from the talent factory. But with Lamine Yamal, things feel different: Xavi gave the player his debut when he was only 15-years-old, on April 29, 2023, and since then he has not stopped growing and breaking records.

“Almost everything I do becomes a record! It’s difficult for me to remember them all, but I do remember some of them,” he says. One is when he scored for the first time with the Barça first team, away against Granada. Of course, the goal that made him happiest was the most recent one, a winner against Mallorca: “it was a dream to score in front of the fans.” Now he hopes to be able to break another record, becoming the youngest player to score in the Champions League. “I hope to fulfil it against PSG,” he says.

Lamine is grateful to Xavi for trusting him and giving him the opportunity to establish himself in the Barça first team. “He has a huge role. He has been the one who has trusted me. Furthermore, he is giving me a lot of continuity and I am accumulating many minutes.” In many games he has played, Lamine Yamal has been one of Barcelona’s most dangerous players. With this comes a pressure that he takes on naturally; his secret is to focus on playing and not think about anything else. “When you think about it a lot, that’s when the feeling of pressure comes. I try to enjoy playing football, which is the most important thing,”