All records of precocity of Lamin Yamal

Lamin Yamal, who is now surprising with his early records in the Spanish national team at the European Championships in Germany, began making history in the world of football a little over a year ago. On 29 April 2023, at the age of 15 years and 290 days, he became the youngest debutant in Barça history in a league match against Real Betis. He entered the field in the 83rd minute, replacing Gavi and the winger has already given details of his superb performance in the match, which Barca won 4-0. Thanks to this participation May 14, 2023 Laminate He was proclaimed the youngest League champion for the 2022/23 season at the age of 15 years and 305 days. These were his first two records. And many others came.

Already at the start of the 2023/24 season, August 20, 2023, at 16 years and 38 days. Laminate against Cadiz in Montjuïc (2-0), he became the youngest player in league history to start, surpassing the record set by Fabrice Olinga created with Malaga in 2012. And August 27, 2023 Laminate was, at 16 years and 45 days, the premature assister in League history to score Gavi in Villarreal. Barça eventually won the match 3–4 thanks to a stellar contribution from the striker, who played 77 minutes in the starting line-up.

The record for the youngest scorer in the League was set on October 8, 2023. At 16 years and 87 days, he once again snatched the record from Fabrice Olinga (Malaga), this time for only 11 days. This was in Granada.

January 11, 2024 Laminate He became the youngest goal scorer in Spanish Super Cup history in the semi-final against Osasuna, scoring at the age of 16 years and 182 days.

No goal

Six Champions League records

Lamin Yamal They did not reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, but said goodbye to the competition, setting seven early records. The last one before being sacrificed Javi Hernandez half an hour of play after deletion Ronald Araujo for the center I would like to enter Inigo Martinez. He became the youngest participant in the qualifying rounds of the main European competition at the age of 16 years and 278 days. He gave it Rafinha in a 1-0 score that was eventually overturned by PSG (1-4) without the Barça youngster on the field.

Lamin Yamal He was already the youngest debutant in the history of the Champions League in that match against Antwerp (5-0), which he played on the first day of the group stage at the age of 16 years and 68 days, surpassing Ansu Fati (16 years and 321 days). He later became the youngest player in the tournament to be included in the starting line-up (16 years and 83 days against Porto at Do Dragao). In the first leg of the round of 16 on 21 February in Naples, he also became the youngest player in Champions League history to play in a knockout match, aged 16 years and 223 days. In the first leg of the quarter-finals in Paris, aged 16 years and 272 days, he became the youngest player to play in a Champions League quarter-final match.

UEFA, before providing assistance to the junior, also noted that Lamin Yamal He is the youngest player to play 10 Champions League matches, surpassing Yuri Tielemanswho was 17 years and 216 days old when he made his tenth appearance for Anderlecht against Dortmund in December 2014.

However, Lamina was stripped of the record for the youngest goal in the history of the Champions League, which will remain the property of another Barcelona player, Ansu Fati, at 17 years and 40 days. Lamin will not be able to surpass him even in the next Champions League. He managed to break it at 16 years and 68 days when he made his 2023–24 Champions League debut on the first day of the group stage against Antwerp (5–0), but the record was not achieved despite playing all 10 matches in this edition: six rounds of the group stage, two round of 16 matches against Naples and two quarter-final matches against PSG. He played seven games as a starter and three as a substitute, although in the last match against PSG he was substituted after half an hour at the Stade Luis Companys in Montjuïc against PSG in the second leg of the quarter-finals.

Ansu Fati, Currently on loan at Brighton in the Premier League, he scored a goal aged 17 years and 40 days on 10 December 2019 at Barca in Ernesto Valverde against Inter in Milan (1-2) at the end of the group stage of the 2019/20 season.

On the way to the earliest goal in the Eurocup

And more records with Spain

In La Roja’s debut match at the German Euro 2024 against Croatia (3:0), when he was exactly 16 years and 339 days old, Lamin Yamal has already broken two more records: the youngest debutant in the history of the final stages of the Eurocup and the youngest assistant for the transition to Carvajal with the score 3-0. He almost became a scorer, but he will have to wait. This is within his reach, because until now the youngest debutant was a Polish midfielder. Kacper Kozlowskiwho, at the last European Cup, which took place a year later than planned, in 2021, due to the pandemic, made his debut at the age of 17 years and 246 days, almost a year older.

WITH Spain He was already a debutant and the youngest goalscorer in history, as well as the youngest goalscorer of all time in any European football qualifying match. After her first call-up to the adult team in September 2023, young Zhemchuzhina trained in Masia He had to wait just 43 minutes to make his debut, and at 16 years and 57 days, he became the youngest player in La Roja’s history to debut and score, notably in Georgia’s 1–7 tie.

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