The birthday boy with goal of ending England's party
Daily Mirror UK|July 13, 2024
LINING out in the Euros final will be the best birthday present ever for Spanish wonderkid Lamine Yamal.
MARTIN FRICKER
The birthday boy with goal of ending England's party

The young Barcelona ace turns 17 today and will face England at the 71,000-capacity Olympiastadion in Berlin tomorrow.

He lit up the tournament with a memorable goal in the 2-1 semifinal win over France on Tuesday.

In doing so, he bagged yet another record - the youngest ever player to score at the European Championships, aged 16 years and 362 days old.

He was already the youngest player to feature at a men's Euros, to net for Spain and to debut and score in the Spanish league.

It has been a phenomenal rise to stardom for teenage Yamal, whose full name is Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana. He is the son of a McDonald's worker Yamal's 30 mother from Equatorial Guinea and a father from Morocco.

Yamal was born and raised in Rocafonda, a tough neighbourhood in the town of Mataro, 20 miles from Barcelona.

His trademark celebration forming the numbers 304 with his thumb and fingers is a tribute to the deprived area's 304 postcode.

Despite his family being too poor to own a car or pay for training sessions, Yamal thrived on the tough streets.

He was kicking a ball before he was 12 months old and honed his skills against older boys on the area's concrete courts.

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