From baby baths to the biggest game of all: Lamine Yamal can use World Cup final to show why he is truly Lionel Messi's heir
Young football star Lamine Yamal is being compared to Lionel Messi as he prepares for a major World Cup final appearance. The narrative highlights a 2007 photo of Messi bathing a young Yamal, framing the upcoming match as a symbolic passing of the torch.
Lamine Yamal has always looked up to Lionel Messi. The Barcelona legend was - and remains - his one and only idol. "I never had another," Yamal admitted to Tuttosport. "I once took a photo with him. I was unknown." He wasn't just unknown, though; he was still only a baby, just a few weeks old when he and his mother partook in a 2007 photoshoot organised by SPORT for a charity calendar.
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