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Only Pelé did it before him! Yamal fires himself into an exclusive club
The disappointing goalless draw against Cape Verde in their World Cup opener no longer seems to be weighing on the European champions. Spain were already 1-0 up against Saudi Arabia after just ten minutes.
The goalscorer was — you could say: of course — Lamine Yamal, one of the four new stars Luis de la Fuente brought into the starting lineup compared to the opening match. Even though he said himself that he is not fit enough for 90 minutes, he was allowed to start today and put his team ahead in the 10th minute, sliding in Oyarzabal’s precise cross from close range.
At 18 years and 343 days old, he not only became Spain’s second-youngest goalscorer at a World Cup (only Gavi was younger in 2022) and scored Spain’s fastest World Cup goal in 24 years, but also joined a list that until now had featured one name only: Pelé.
Yamal is in fact only the second player under 19 to score the opening goal in a World Cup match. Pelé was even younger when he scored Brazil’s first goal in their World Cup match against Wales in 1958.
It’s crazy just how good this guy is. His teammates, by the way, are not bad either: by the first drinks break, Spain were already 3-0 up, clearly having long since put the disappointment of the first game behind them.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in here.
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