Lamine Yamal was recognised this Sunday with the prize to the best young player of the Eurocopa 2024, an award that delivered him the UEFA shortly after having raised the title in Berlin in which it was his first competition like international absolute. The Catalan extreme has signed a spectacular tournament, collaborating with assistances and goals, and being determinant almost every time that touched the balloon.
But in the middle of all this party, Lamine indicated that had win to celebrate with his family and with all his people, and in fact tried to do it from the first moment. And it is that already in Rocafonda, the neighbourhood in which it has bred , had put a giant screen to see him in the party and he, after the meeting, has decided to go back all the affection that offer him when surrounding the waist with a flag of the municipality of Mataró.
A gesture more than Lamine with his wanted to and humble neighbourhood and municipality
To this adds him that in the semifinal against France, when it ran the minute 21, Lamine achieved the first goal of Spain in the Euro and celebrated it the same gesture with his hands that comes doing it does several years: the number 304. It treats of the last figures of the postal code of Rocafonda, one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Spain, it is necessary to highlight besides.
Yamal has turned into the goleador younger of the history of the Eurocopa and although it has not been able to mark in the final, himself that has given the pass of goal to his fellow Nico Williams so that it opened the marker and afterwards, has had a clear occasion, but has not adjusted sufficient the balloon to the long stick of the goal of England. But to the margin of all his attainments, always has wanted to keep near of his origins.