A rare photo featuring Lionel Messi and a baby faced Lamine Yamal has been revealed.
Messi status as a Barcelona icon is assured as the greatest player to represent the club with Lamine Yamal signalling their future.
The club are keen not load too much pressure on Lamine Yamal’s 16-year-old shoulders but he continue to smash through barriers in his early career.
Despite never playing together, their paths bizarrely crossed in 2006, via a collaboration between Diario Sport and Barcelona sponsor Unicef.
As part of a charity project, the two bodies to promote a charity calendar with Barcelona players posing with children from groups helped by Unicef.
Lamine Yamal’s parents agreed to participate in the phot shoot with their baby snapped with Messi and his teammates.
Photographer Joan Monfort has shared his memories of an incredible moment of coincidence between Barcelona’s past and present.
“We took photos at Camp Nou. Most of them in the away team’s changing rooms, but some outside”, he said.
“I remember the one of Messi and that baby, who obviously we never knew, until they called me today, was Lamine Yamal!”
The images have caused a storm on social media as Lamine Yamal gears up for a Euro 2024 semi final against France on July 9.
Images via X/Twitter
Shmonny
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Me patiently waiting for Argentina to win copa so that Messi will get his 9th balon D’OR 😂
ColinsGooner
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So all this bullshit is just to try and make Messi as a father figure,yet Messi doesn't care about the poor at all
Fuhaciptuy
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I smell a rat here. Lamine was born on July 13, 2007, according to his profile, and there's no doubt he's fast approaching 17 years. July 13 is just a week away from now. If it's true that Messi had this shoot in 2006, it's with some other baby, not Lamine. Lamine joined Barça around 2014 at age 8 and was nowhere around the Camp Nou back in 2006. What a fake story... Let's stop worshipping men as God... Messi is gifted by God, and so Lamine is... The duo have some similarities on the pitch, but that can't be attributed to Messi blessing the young talent...
all your conspiracy theories until you see his father's facebook post from 2011..or even visited his IG page yesterday
nobbklnstu
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I smell a rat here. Lamine was born on July 13, 2007, according to his profile, and there's no doubt he's fast approaching 17 years. July 13 is just a week away from now. If it's true that Messi had this shoot in 2006, it's with some other baby, not Lamine. Lamine joined Barça around 2014 at age 8 and was nowhere around the Camp Nou back in 2006. What a fake story... Let's stop worshipping men as God... Messi is gifted by God, and so Lamine is... The duo have some similarities on the pitch, but that can't be attributed to Messi blessing the young talent...
meoadkopy
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he joined Barca at the age of 8,the picture is fake
go check on Fabrizio's ig page
nubdelpry
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They said the same with Ansu Fati, where is he now [Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Ansu fati father/ manager caused his downfall cus of greed