{"id":11531,"date":"2025-06-20T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/lamine-yamal-and-neymar-cule-idol-and-promise-together-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T11:50:14","slug":"lamine-yamal-and-neymar-cule-idol-and-promise-together-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/lamine-yamal-and-neymar-cule-idol-and-promise-together-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal and Neymar: Cul\u00e9 idol and promise, together in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"Barcelona&#8217;s young star, Lamine Yamal, has had the opportunity to meet his &#8220;idol&#8221;, Neymar, during a vacation in Brazil.\n\nIn videos shared on social media, Yamal and Neymar can be seen playing footvolley, riding in a golf cart, and relaxing by a pool.\n\nNeymar shared a video of both of them, to which Yamal replied &#8220;My brother&#8221;.\n\nYamal, 17, has been in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro this week, where he also met with world surfing champion Gabriel Medina.\n\nAfter an exhausting season for the club and the national team, which ended with Spain&#8217;s defeat against Portugal in the UEFA Nations League final on June 8, Yamal is enjoying a well-deserved summer break because Bar\u00e7a did not qualify for the Club World Cup.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0620%2Fr1509027_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Lamine Yamal\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Lamine Yamal despu\u00e9s de una destacada temporada con el Barcelona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nNeymar, former Bar\u00e7a player, who now plays for Santos, also has free time due to the Brasileirao&#8217;s break for the Club World Cup.\n\nYamal was six years old when Neymar arrived at Bar\u00e7a and, although he considers Lionel Messi the best of all time, he has always said that the Brazilian is the player he enjoys watching the most for his style on the field.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I was seven years old when I saw him play at Camp Nou and it was incredible. Neymar was something totally different. He has always been my idol. He is a star, a football legend.<\/p><cite>Lamine Yamal<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nYamal also spoke about growing up &#8220;wearing Neymar&#8217;s jerseys&#8221;.\n\nYamal is enjoying a well-deserved rest after a brilliant season with Bar\u00e7a, which culminated in the LaLiga title, the Copa del Rey, and the Spanish Super Cup.\n\nHe scored 18 goals and provided 25 assists in 55 games for his club last season, which led to him being considered for the Ballon d&#8217;Or.\n\nHis performance has also led to comparisons with Messi and Neymar, and former Bar\u00e7a winger Gerard Deulofeu called him a &#8220;fusion&#8221; of both.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona&#8217;s young star, Lamine Yamal, has had the opportunity to meet his &#8220;idol&#8221;, Neymar, during a vacation in Brazil. In videos shared on social media, Yamal and Neymar can be seen playing footvolley, riding in a golf cart, and relaxing by a pool. Neymar shared a video of both of them, to which Yamal replied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,926,1426,613],"class_list":{"0":"post-11531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-brazil","10":"tag-lamine-yamal","11":"tag-neymar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}