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Lamine Yamal during his debut with FC Barcelona

THE ACADEMY PLAYER HAD ANOTHER OFFER

FC Barcelona came close to losing Lamine Yamal

Published:8/05/2023 - 11:51h

Updated:8/05/2023 - 11:51h

At 7 years old Lamine Yamal entered La Masia to finally become one of the academy players who has managed to debut, although there was a moment when the situation could have been different.

Calendar of FC Barcelona

Lamine Yamal has had another debut in the last days and thus it has followed adding records to his short career like professional footballer. However, the FC Barcelona could have lost of these moments, and even of many that are for coming, if the own canterano Barcelona had decided to take a different way.

And it is that with so only 7 years, the forward was consulted if it wanted to take the proposal of the Barça, or wanted to leave to the Espanyol, the historical rival of city of the culés. And it is that some days before that first important decision of the extreme, had gone through Sant Adrià, where attained to convince to the managers of the basic football blanquiazul to incorporate him immediately.

Everything finished going out of face for the Barça

However, the surroundings of the player also had engaged to go through the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper a pair of days afterwards, as it has explained 'Sport'. The information signals that Lamine Yamal finished exhibiting all his talent with three goals in front of the observers of the Barça, those who neither doubted in offering him form part of his formative football.

With all that already fulfilled, the parents of the already footballer of First had to the best option so that it initiated his career inside a much bigger club and in spite of the good roll of the side parakeet, the reality is that the idea to arrive to debut in the Barça, as it finish happening, went a big point so that the integral project of The Masia finished winning the 'career'.

A way that up to now has been perfect

In fact, the newspaper signals that it was the own Yamal the one who answered that it wanted to play in the Barcelona team, a very celebrated decision by the managers of the basic football culé in general. Nine years later, and with alone 15 years, already has debuted with the first team with the míster Xavi Hernández and more recently with the Barça Atlètic of Rafa Márquez.

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