Barça: When Raphinha compares Lamine Yamal and Neymar!

Two days later, he traveled to Paris to receive the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d’Or ceremony, awarded to the best player under 21.

At just 17 years old, the Barcelona winger has experienced a meteoric rise since his debut in La Liga a year ago, inevitably leading to comparisons with Lionel Messi in Spain.

However, his teammate Raphinha prefers to downplay this analogy, comparing him instead to Neymar: “Messi is unique, he’s hard to explain.

But I see more similarities between Lamine and Neymar, especially in his dribbling and the speed at which he anticipates his actions.

When you think you can take the ball from him, he does something you’ve never seen before,” the Brazilian said in an interview with El Pais.According to Raphinha, Yamal’s qualities remind him more of Neymar than of Messi, emphasizing the uniqueness of the Argentine: “Messi is one of a kind, he’s inexplicable,” he added.