Speaking in an interview with Mundo Deportivo, Jordi Roura and Aureli Altimira, the previous academy supervisors at FC Barcelona, have actually hailed Lamine Yamal as one of the very best gamers worldwide while exposing how his finalizing at La Masia materialised.

Roura and Altimira are accountable for the finalizings of a few of La Masia’s most amazing skills who have actually entered into the first-team setup recently such as Yamal, Pau Cubarsi, Gavi, Alejandro Balde, Hector Fort, Marc Casado, and Marc Bernal.

This is how Yamal was signed

The duo went over how they made sure that Barcelona beat Real Madrid and others to Gavi’s finalizing in the interview, while likewise exposing their early impressions of Yamal.

“He came for a trial when he was six years old. He was skinny, he was little, he walked funny…. In that game there were 20 kids chasing a ball. It was crazy,” they exposed.

“But every now and then, this kid with a strange look would do things that made you say: ‘Wow, this kid is different!”

Continuing, the previous Barcelona academy supervisors included: “The very first sensation was among scepticism however we rapidly understood that this gamer was a various story.

“We would sit and watch the game at the Ciutat Esportiva and we would say: ‘Now he has to go there’. And he would come up with something different and do it well.”

Praise for Yamal

Roura and Altimira then went on to hail Yamal as an unique gamer and among the very best worldwide while likewise discussing him being compared to Lionel Messi.

“He is a very special player. He is one of the best players in the world today. He seems to be able to withstand the pressure, let’s hope he keeps it up, because he’s being compared to Leo and that’s a big word,” they stated.

“He remains in a group with an excellent future, they understand each other and he is well surrounded. This is extremely essential for him. The crucial thing is that he doesn’t go nuts, that you don’t see anything unusual in him.

“His head is in the right place and his behaviour is going well at the moment.”