The young forward joked about the photo that the Rosario native took with him when he was just a baby. However, he tried to distance himself: “I want to be myself.”
The attacker of Barcelona and the selection of Spain Lamine Yamal He avoided comparison with Lionel Messi and stressed that he wants to make his own way at the club and in his career as a player.
“I like being compared to the best player in the history of football, but I want to be myself. Reaching Messi’s level is impossible”said the 17-year-old in an interview for the Spanish program “El Hormiguero” about the comparison with the world champion, who also shone for the Blaugrana club.
He also said that he would like to make his own way without having to be like anyone else, and that he wants to play for the club forever: “I hope I never leave Barcelona. I want to be a legend.”
The current Euro Cup champion with Spain also recalled that photo he took with Messi, when he was just a baby, and joked that he passed on “his powers” to him.
“He transferred some of his powers to me… It was a drawing for calendar pages and I got them”he illustrated.
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Source: Ambito
