Lamine Yamal is incomes rave evaluations for his blistering shows at Euro 2024 and the Spain starlet is breaking loads of data, too.
At simply 16 years of age, the Barcelona attacker grew to become the European Championship’s youngest participant ever to seem at a Euros and his objective in Spain’s 2-1 win over France within the semi-finals made him the youngest scorer within the historical past of the competitors as properly.
He turned 17-years-old between the semi-final and ultimate and eagled-eyed viewers might need observed Yamal have a good time with an uncommon gesture after scoring towards Les Bleus. So what’s all of it about? FourFourTwo explains…
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Why does Spain’s Lamine Yamal have a good time with a ‘3-0-4’ gesture?
Lamine Yamal grew up simply exterior Barcelona and has gone on to play first-team soccer for the Catalan membership, making his debut at simply 15 and happening to performed 50 video games in all competitions for the Blaugrana in 2023/24.
Extra particularly, Yamal hails from Esplugues de Llobregat in Barcelona’s metropolitan space. Nonetheless, he grew up in an space known as Rocafonda, a multicultural neighbourhood which has been described as “forgotten, remoted and stigmatised” by Spanish newspaper El País.
Yamal is happy with his upbringing and his roots, having grown up in a cultural melting pot the place individuals work arduous and stick collectively – values instilled in him from a younger age by his Equatorial Guinean mom and Moroccan father.
Rocafonda’s postal code is 08304 and Yamal’s celebration makes reference to the place the place he grew up.
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Spain’s Lamine Yamal strolling throughout the pitch throughout his facet’s Euro 2024 win towards Croatia. (Picture credit score: James Gill – Danehouse/Getty Photos)
It has been an enormous hit with younger youngsters within the space who’re watching his performances at Euro 2024 with pleasure and was repeated within the Parliament of Andalucía by politician José Manuel Gómez Jurado in response to an anti-immigration speech by Purificación Fernández, from far-right get together Vox.
The quantity 304 is printed on his boots too, alongside flags from the international locations the place his dad and mom have been born, and his Instagram account username additionally has featured 304 on the finish.
Yamal began for Spain within the ultimate towards England, trying to grow to be the youngest footballer in historical past to win a serious worldwide match.
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