The national team player whom Messi bathed as a child: “The beginning of two legends”

The beginning of Lamine Yamal’s career in football has certain parallels with the start of Leo Messi. The two beat La Masia, and both debuted as children and brilliantly in Barcelona, ​​which dedicated itself to the football of the Spanish striker, as it did to the Argentine two decades ago. A distant time, the time of the debut of the “ten” at the “Camp Nou”, from which several photographs have been preserved that link him to Yamal.

“The beginning of two legends,” wrote Munir Nasroui, Lamine’s father, on Instagram, along with an image of the Spain great at the European Cup with Messi and his mother Sheila Ebana.

What is curious is that the photo shows twenty-year-old Leo and Lamine, a six-month-old child, whom the Argentine is bathing with his mother.

The photo belongs to the magazine “Sport”, which at that time published a calendar of solidarity, in which Barcelona players selflessly appeared. And in 2008, Messi and Yamal coincided.