Barcelona president Joan Laporta has said that Lamine Yamal is a genius. He recently addressed the teenage wonderkid’s comparisons with Lionel Messi, and fans have been reacting.
Speaking during an interview with the press, Laporta revealed that Messi has been the best player in the world for many years, and Yamal will be the best very soon.
According to him, Yamal has an amazing personality like the Argentine football legend, so it’s normal for fans to point out similarities between them.
“Lamine is Lamine Yamal and Lionel Messi was Lionel Messi. Messi has been the best player in the world, and Lamine, I think that in today’s situation, he is the best in the world. I think we’ll see, we’ll see.
Lamine has a lot of personality, like Messi, in his time he also had a lot of personality. Of course, Messi won everything. Messi did everything. For me, he is probably the best player in history,” he said.
Hailing Messi as an all-time great, Joan stated that the teenage sensation is clearly heading down an identical path.
The club president concluded by saying that Messi is an absolute football genius, and there is no one like him.
“He is the type of player of which there are very few like him because he is a genius and he is at the highest level,” he added.
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Futbol Club Barcelona is a professional football club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, that competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish football.
Founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, Catalan, German, and English footballers led by Joan Gamper, the club has become a symbol of Catalan culture and Catalanism, hence the motto “Més que un club” (“More than a club”). Unlike many other football clubs, the supporters own and operate Barcelona. It is the third-most valuable sports team in the world, worth $5.51 billion, and the world’s fourth richest football club in terms of revenue, with an annual turnover of €582.1 million.
The official Barcelona anthem is the “Cant del Barça”, written by Jaume Picas and Josep Maria Espinàs. Barcelona traditionally play in dark shades of blue and garnet stripes, hence nicknamed Blaugrana.
In March 2021, Lionel Messi overtook Xavi’s record of 767 games played for the club, and presently has made 778 official appearances in all competitions, while also holding the record for the most appearances in La Liga matches for Barcelona, with 520.
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