How old is Lamine Yamal?

Lamine Yamal is a soccer superstar and a revelation of 2024 UEFA Euro Championship who scored a number of key goals playing for the Spanish National Team and thus becoming the youngest ever scorer in the history of the championship. Yamal was born in 2007 in Barcelona, he was raised by his parents of Moroccan and Equatorial Guinea origins. Just like thousands of his peers, he has been a fan of soccer and Barcelona FC since his very early age, and Lionel Messi has been his idol for all of his life. Lamine joined La Maissa Junior school of Barcelona when he was only 6 years old, with later on accommodation in Barcelona Youth Academy and Barcelona Juvenil A team where he started developing as a right winger. In the early 2020s he started joining youth teams of Spain and taking part in some national competitions. In the spring of 2023 Yamal made his debut in Barcelona in a La Liga match against Real Betis becoming a 15-year-old player. Next season became a breakthrough for him and Yamal appeared in 37 games and scored 5 goals. His determined and mature performance helped him to gain a place in the national team and become a player of Euro 2024 which has been so far the peak of his career. The goals he scored in the final stage of the championship made Lamine Yamal among the most valuable and successful players of the tournament. He is incredibly popular on social media, with his Instagram account followed by over 8 million soccer fans.

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