He became a world champion at just 19 years old!
The photo you see here is historic by every measure!
Right after the Spain-Argentina match ended with Spain’s victory and their World Cup coronation, Lamine Yamal lay on the ground, put his hand to his head, and couldn’t believe the reality that he had become a world champion at just 19 years old!
Back then, I was just a young kid playing for Barcelona’s youth team, like any other kid my age. Suddenly, Barcelona was going through financial difficulties, and out of the blue, Xavi picked me, promoted me to the first team, and made me a starter—all while I was still only 16!
Suddenly, I became the team’s star and the best winger in La Liga. I played in the Euros when I was 17 and became the youngest player in history to win it, earning the Best Young Player award.
Then, two years later, I won the first World Cup of my career at just 19, and I became the player with the most successful dribbles in the tournament with 35 dribbles!
Neither Messi, nor Ronaldo, nor Neymar achieved this level of international success at age 19. All that’s missing for Mal is winning the Champions League and the Ballon d’Or to become the ultimate player—and he’s only just getting started.Barcelona
Unfortunately, this guy right in front of you will be forgotten amid all the celebrations, even though he scored the winning goal against Argentina and was the reason Spain won the World Cup!
Fernando Torres has endured extraordinary hardships in his life.
He once recounted that when he turned 13, he suddenly grew 12 centimeters in one go, which made him unable to shoot the ball properly.
He thought he’d be kicked out of Valencia, but the coaches moved him to a deeper position, and he started scoring goals—he didn’t even know how it was happening!
Torres also said that when he transferred to Barcelona, he went through a very difficult period mentally, and at the time he said, “I found myself in a bottomless pit and saw no way out of it; I had lost confidence in myself.”
Today, Torres has put all that suffering and hardship behind him.
He came off the bench in the match against Portugal and set up the winning goal, and he came off the bench today in the match against Argentina and scored the World Cup-winning goal for the Spanish national team, becoming a world champion!
Torres capped off the World Cup with this magnificent statement:
“This goal is thanks to God; He grants it to those who deserve it.”
I’ve never seen a more one-sided World Cup final in the history of the tournament than the one between Spain and Argentina today!
This is the first World Cup final in history to be such a one-sided affair. Spain was literally just going through the motions—a team that plays the most beautiful soccer in the world facing off against a team that came to wrestle and knows nothing about soccer!
Argentina was completely exposed today. Just imagine: Spain had 20 shots, created 4 clear-cut scoring chances, and had 2 expected goals, while Martínez made 11 saves—all against just 2 shots, zero clear-cut chances, and 0.22 expected goals. Absolute dominance!
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He became a world champion at just 19 years old!
He became a world champion at just 19 years old!
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