He left the streets of Amsterdam behind when he was just sixteen. It was summer, and he was leaving home for the first time. His destination: Badalona. "I was really excited because it was a huge step for me, but I was also scared. It hurt to leave my friends. Even today, sometimes I miss them a lot," he recalls with a shy smile. The offer came suddenly, with hardly any time to think about it. "I arrived in the morning, did a training session, and that same day they offered me a five-year contract. I said I had to think about it, but I already knew I would sign," he says. Yannick explains it matter-of-factly, as if the memory of that teenage decision still seems simple to him.