Lamine Yamal said ESPN, it feels like he was “playing pro evolution soccer” [sic]”How the teenager is aiming with Barcelona with Barcelona this season.
The 17-year-old scored 13 goals this year and scored 19 templates to keep Barça alive in three competitions at the end of the campaign.
Barça performs Laliga with four points with eight games, against Real Madrid in the Copa Del Rey final on April 26 and welcomes Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday in the first leg of her quarter -finals of the Champions League in the Olympic Stadium.
“I am one of these people who always trust their team,” said Yamal when asked when he was asked whether the altitude discussion was premature. “I always strive for the maximum from the beginning of the season.
“So if we can win the heights at the beginning of the season, this is the goal. It is no different now. It is not because of the trust or something, it is because you have to believe in yourself.
“If you say that another team will win, I don't know why you go to the field so that we can win the heights. We are Barça. We have already achieved it [in 2009 and 2015] – Hopefully we can do it again. “
It has been two years since Yamal made his debut for Barça as a 15-year-old. Since then he has become the youngest player who has ever found the youngest debutant and scorer in the Champions League with his country last summer in Laliga and the Knockout round of the Champions League, Spain's youngest debutant and goalkeeper and European champion.
He sets his quick ascent to play a video game and says that the pressure of being involved in some of the biggest games of football did not affect him.
Lamine Yamal was a scintling form for Barcelona this season. David Ramos/Getty Images
“It's like a dream,” he added. “I still think that. When we reach the final of the Champions League, the final of the Copa del Rey, the [Clásico] Final this month the World Cup [next year with Spain] … everything is like a dream.
“It is as if I play pes. It's incredible. If you come home and you say 'Pffff I played the euro in the final …' It's incredible.
“I don't do [notice the pressure]. I'm just trying to have fun. I don't think too much about other things. I also don't think too much about what I do, what I'm doing tomorrow, which game I play when it is more important [than others].
“Obviously I know that I play for Barça. I know how important it is, but I don't think of printing. I'm playing, amusing … and that's all.”
It was remarkable how quickly Yamal has become an important player for club and country.
He played 3,448 minutes for Barça in all competitions this season – only Jules Koundé, Pedri and Raphinha played more and started the last 21 games for the Catalan Club.
This exposure compared to so much football at such a young age led him to demand that it will be rested more, but Yamal says he feels fit in the last two months of the season.
“[I’m feeling] Very good, “he said.” I think one thing that I learned this year is how to manage me. There are people who say, “Why don't they move for 10 minutes?” But at the end of the day there are moments when you don't have to run all the time.
“You need to know how you can cope with during the season during the season to know what you have to do during the training … So I think I learned that. And to be honest, I'm really fine.”
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Yamal's contract expires in 2026, but he previously confirmed that he will sign a new long -term deal. ESPN explains that he will do this if he will be 18 this year.
He hopes that this will only be the beginning of a long career at Barça.
“It's a difficult question,” he said when he was asked where he will see himself in 10 years. “[I’ll be] 27 [years old] … I think, similar to now, between the training area and my house and back to the training area. “
