Barcelona defender Pau Cubarsí has stated teammate Lamine Yamal has no ceiling and can at some point win the Ballon d’Or award.
Yamal, 17, turned the youngest ever winner of the Kopa Trophy as the perfect under-21 participant on Monday. Named Younger Participant of the Match at Euro 2024 after serving to Spain win the title, Yamal completed eighth within the Ballon d’Or rankings.
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“Now everybody sees what he’s, however I’ve identified him for years and I do know what he is like,” Cubarsí, 17, instructed RAC 1.
“I believe he has the power to win it [Ballon d’Or].”
Yamal has picked up the place he left off final season and has scored six objectives and arrange seven extra in 14 appearances to this point.
Requested if he thinks that Yamal has a ceiling, Cubarsí stated: “I do not suppose so. As he’s proper now, he is at a spectacular degree and to have him at that degree in our crew helps us lots.
“He is stuffed with confidence and that makes us pleased.”
Yamal is the youngest scorer in LaLiga historical past and the youngest participant ever to characteristic at a European Championship.
Cubarsí, who grew up with Yamal at La Masía, Barça’s academy, is aware of simply how difficult it’s for rival defenders to restrict the Spanish ahead.
“It is powerful,” he stated. “You by no means know what he will come out with.”
