Lamine Yamal: a year of early records with Spain

Lamine Yamal wraps up a year with La Roja. The young Barcelona striker of Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean origin made his debut with the Spanish team on September 8, 2023 against Georgia at the age of 16, definitively turning his back on Morocco which had tried in vain to convince him to join the Atlas Lions squad.

Called up by Luis de la Fuente for the matches against Georgia and Cyprus, Lamine Yamal made his debut with the Spanish team on September 8, 2023 at the Boris Paichadze stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia, becoming the youngest player in history to start an official match with La Roja. Since then, Yamal has established himself with his talent and has found his place within the team, despite his young age. “His maturity is ahead of his age,” De la Fuente said admiringly of the young striker who has made meteoric progress in a year with La Roja, during which he has broken records for precocity.