The young Barça striker has an important decision to make in the coming days: which Absolute team will he represent?
Lamine Yamal has a dilemma between Spain and Morocco: which national team will the FC Barcelona attacker represent? The barely 16-year-old is the great sensation of the Barça team at the start of the campaign (he came off the bench in Getafe and started against Cádiz in Montjuic), had more minutes than expected and was the protagonist for his impertinence outside the field field in the preseason.
As several media in Spain have announced, Lamine will be called up by Luis de la Fuente for the Eurocup qualifiers that the Spanish national team will play against Georgia and Cyprus on September 8 and 12 respectively, but it remains to be seen what he will do . will decide on the adolescent born on July 13, 2007 in Mataró.
Spain or Morocco: why the selection chooses Lamine Yamal, the young star of FC Barcelona
The same happened with Gavi and with Ansu Fati. It wasn’t long before Spain knocked on the door of the also Barcelona footballers, and the two agreed to play for La Roja. According to the newspaper “AS”, the Spanish Federation, led by Tito Blanco, base football coordinator, and Francis Hernández, technical director and coordinator of the national teams, met the player this Wednesday in Barcelona (previously with Deco, brand new sports director of the Catalan club) to inform him of his intention to summon him in the next summons by Luis de la Fuente. Always according to ‘AS’, they have the ‘yes’ of the footballer in the Federation, despite the strong interest that Morocco has in him, the country of origin of Lamine Yamal’s family.
Who is Lamine Yamal, how old is he, and how and what he plays
We should not forget that the Barça striker has always been involved in the National Team project, where he is already a fixture in the lower categories. In fact, he played 21 games and scored 12 goals between the Sub-15, Sub-16, Sub-17 and Sub-19. It would be strange in that sense if he refused to be called up for the games against Georgia and Chipe. It should be noted that if Lamine makes his debut in one of those matches, he will be the youngest rookie in national team history, surpassing his Barcelona teammate Gavi, who did so with 17 and 62 in the 2021 Nations League .
Yamal’s premature call-up is also related to the “going out of the way” of the Moroccan team, which dreams of including Lamine in its ranks, although September’s games do not rule out a future for the player in the African team: The current FIFA rules allow a footballer to change teams if he has dual nationality, if he does not play a maximum of three matches (official or otherwise) or has not participated in his national team for three years since his debut.
On the other hand, we must not forget that Spain will play in the U-17 World Cup, a championship that Lamine could play despite being the protagonist at Barcelona and although the Federation wants to “secure” him as soon as possible. possible in the Absolute. Although it seems more complicated than before at the moment, his participation in the U-17 World Cup is not excluded.
Source: Goal