

A year ago, the imminent signing of Kylian Mbappé by Real Madrid was perceived as a tragedy at Barça, and some were already internalizing a worrying "there's nothing we can do." What could Barça do to change its destiny? Well, fate has rewritten it, beyond the winning mind of Hansi Flick, a genius of just seventeen years old who wants to take on the world. Lamine Yamal.
The first leg of the semi-final against Inter will be remembered, with emotion, as an almost biblical revelation for his decisive influence. Simone Inzaghi was still rubbing his eyes when, in the press room, he described him as a unique talent that appears every fifty years... and since then, praise has been piling up from former players of the caliber of Thierry Henry. years with the emergence of Leo Messi, but with two notable differences: he wasn't so extremely precocious and the star who held the team together was Ronaldinho. Bridge. You already know how it went: the first leg of the round of 16, Del Horno and the "good theaterLamine Yamal can sit at the same table as that Messi and not only speak to him as an equal, but do so knowing he's a year ahead of him. La Masía is adding a new legend to the history of football, but it will be up to the striker from Rocafonda to establish himself in the Olympus of the greatest forever. He's a man of the age, with an insatiable and merciless hunger to be the best. That hunger—and the club's help to feed it—will be the bar that sets Lamine Yamal's career and will determine whether this is not only his year, but also the beginning of a new era.