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Sam Marsden
Moises Llorens
May 16, 2025, 07:10 AM ET
Lamine Yamal said winning much is each helium has connected his caput aft helping Barcelona seal the LaLiga rubric connected Thursday to implicit a home treble.
Yamal, 17, scored the opening the goal, a superb left-footed onslaught from extracurricular the box, arsenic Barça bushed metropolis rivals Espanyol 2-0 to determination 7 points wide of Real Madrid with conscionable 2 games to play.
Barça had already won the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Supercopa this season, beating Madrid successful some finals, with the league making it 3 trophies successful manager Hansi Flick's archetypal twelvemonth astatine the club.
"It's a imagination travel true," Yamal told ESPN aft winning his 2nd league rubric with the club, having besides featured successful the 2022-23 occurrence arsenic a 15-year-old.
"Winning LaLiga with Barça is incredible, but this is conscionable the opening of what we privation to achieve. The connection to supporters is this is conscionable getting started.
"It's intolerable to tyre of winning. I person it permanently connected my mind."
Yamal volition lone crook 18 successful July but is already gathering up an awesome postulation of silverware.
In summation to the 4 trophies he's won with Barça, helium besides won the European Championship with Spain past summer, with the Champions League and the World Cup the lone large silverware missing.
With 17 goals and 25 assists this season, his performances person drawn comparisons with Lionel Messi, Neymar and Ronaldinho, but he's focused connected penning his ain story.
"The nonsubjective is to execute my ain success," helium added. "I privation to beryllium myself, constitute my ain communicative and beryllium my ain player.
"I don't look astatine different players. Of people I would emotion to person that level of success, Messi is incredible, for maine the top ever, but I privation to person my ain career."
In a abstracted interview, Yamal besides paid tribute to erstwhile manager Xavi Hernández, who was replaced by Flick past summertime but lone aft handing the teenager, arsenic good arsenic 18-year-old centre-back Pau Cubarsí, their debuts.
"We are truly grateful to Xavi due to the fact that without him, nary of this would person happened," Yamal told Barça One.
"He's the 1 that handed debuts to truthful galore young players and we privation to convey him for that."
Barça president Joan Laporta, meanwhile, said Yamal is 1 of the chosen ones aft his relation successful this season's success.
"He's 1 of the chosen fewer who volition person a genuinely unsocial vocation successful this game, assigned lone to the champion players ever," Laporta told reporters.
"He has an innate talent. He's blessed astatine Barça and has a task which revolves astir him, similar Ronaldinho and Messi earlier him. He's surrounded by large players."
Laporta besides confirmed an statement is successful spot for Flick to widen his declaration astatine the club.
The coach's existent woody expires successful 2026, but sources person told ESPN helium volition pen caller presumption which volition support him successful the relation until astatine slightest 2027.
"A ample percent of the occurrence is down to him," Laporta added of Flick. "He's truthful excited by the task we person here.
"A fewer months agone determination was a escaped agreement. He volition stay. [Sporting director] Deco is putting it unneurotic and it volition beryllium announced soon. He wants to spell twelvemonth by year."
Barça's rubric celebrations spilled into Friday greeting aft the triumph astatine Espanyol, with the players greeted by thousands of fans and fireworks erstwhile they returned to the grooming crushed good aft midnight.
Later, midfielder Marc Casadó was spotted joining successful celebrations with fans successful the metropolis centre, portion Dani Olmo, Iñigo Martínez, Pedri and Eric García hopped on rental bicycles to spell and observe the rubric with Ferran Torres successful hospital.
Torres, who has scored 19 goals this season, missed the Espanyol crippled arsenic helium remains hospitalised aft having an appendectomy.
The enactment volition proceed connected Friday, with an open-top autobus parade scheduled to instrumentality spot to people the 3 trophies won this year.
