Spain fans were shocked on Thursday (September 5) by widespread news that the national team player, Lamine Yamal (17 years old), was suffering from leg pain, before two upcoming matches against Serbia and Switzerland, in the group stage of the 2024-25 European Nations League.
Yamal is a mainstay in the Spanish national team squad, under the leadership of national coach Luis de la Fuente, and the “Barcelona rookie” played an important role in “La Roja” winning the European Nations Cup “Euro 2024” the month before last.
Pedri’s Experience
Barcelona fans fear that playing Yamal at high rates, with the club and the national team, will weaken the player’s physical condition, similar to what happened to the team’s midfielder, Pedro Gonzalez “Pedri”, in 2021.
And impose Pedri He himself in the 2020-21 season was “an important player in the Barcelona squad”, despite being only 18 years old at the time, to participate in a total of 52 matches with the Barça first team.
After the end of the Barcelona season, Pedri found himself called up to play six matches with the Spanish national team at the Euro 2020 finals, before being called up to the U23 squad for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, where he played a further six matches.
That meant Pedri finished the 2020-21 season having played 73 matches, including friendlies with Spain’s senior national team and one with the Under-21s.
At the time, Barcelona celebrated its player’s achievement on its official website, before the shock came when the talented midfielder suffered almost non-stop injuries, while observers attributed the reason for this to Pedri being exposed to abnormal physical effort, over the course of an entire season, before he had completed his 19th year only.
Lamine Yamal.. A new victim
It seems that Pedri’s crisis may be repeated with Oh mywho was exempted from participating in the “Paris 2024” Olympic Games in order to rest him, but the degree of reliance on the player in Barcelona, or with the Spanish national team, warns that his physical condition will be negatively affected.
Lamine Yamal played 50 matches with Barcelona last season, before participating with the Spanish national team in 7 matches in the European Nations Cup finals.
Yamal started his new season by starting four matches for Barcelona in the Spanish League, and quickly became required to carry Spain’s attack on his shoulders in the Nations League. The problem is that all of this is happening to a player who only turned 17 a few days ago.
