{"id":16693,"date":"2025-07-16T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/yamal-inherits-messis-10-at-barca-new-jersey-number-and-expectations\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T16:53:08","slug":"yamal-inherits-messis-10-at-barca-new-jersey-number-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/yamal-inherits-messis-10-at-barca-new-jersey-number-and-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamal inherits Messi&#8217;s &#8217;10&#8217; at Bar\u00e7a: New jersey number and expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal, the young football sensation, has been honored with Barcelona&#8217;s iconic number 10 jersey, a number that previously belonged to Lionel Messi. The official announcement was made this Wednesday, marking a milestone in the player&#8217;s promising career.\n\nYamal, who celebrated his 18th birthday on Sunday, inherits the number from Ansu Fati, who recently joined AS Monaco on loan for a season.\n\nThe confirmation of Yamal&#8217;s new number took place during a special event where the winger was accompanied by his family to celebrate his new contract, which was agreed upon last month and is valid until 2031.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0630%2Fr1512978_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Lamine Yamal vestir\u00e1 la camiseta n\u00famero 10 la pr\u00f3xima temporada\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nIn the past, Fati had succeeded Messi as the number 10 in 2021, but a series of injuries prevented him from keeping his place in the Bar\u00e7a team.\n\nMeanwhile, Yamal has established himself as one of the most outstanding players for both Bar\u00e7a and the Spanish national team.\n\nThe teenager, who has already played 106 matches with Bar\u00e7a and scored 25 goals, will now wear one of the most emblematic numbers in the club&#8217;s history.\n\nIn addition to Messi, the number 10 shirt has been worn by Bar\u00e7a legends such as Ronaldinho, Rivaldo, Rom\u00e1rio and Diego Maradona.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lamine Yamal: Meteoric rise of the Barcelona star<\/li><li>LaLiga 2025-26 match dates: The most important matches and the dates of the Cl\u00e1sicos<\/li><li>Nico Williams explains his agreement with Athletic after rumors about Bar\u00e7a<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nYamal had hinted at this change in recent weeks, posting photos of Maradona, Ronaldinho, and Messi on social media, the first two while wearing the number 10 jersey of Bar\u00e7a.\n\nThis will be the fourth different number that Yamal has used with Bar\u00e7a: he wore the number 41 when he debuted in 2022-23, the 27 the following season and then the 19 last year, the same number that Messi used before taking the number 10.\n\nYamal has won two LaLiga titles, a Copa del Rey and a Spanish Super Cup with Bar\u00e7a, as well as helping Spain win the European Championship last summer.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lamine Yamal, the young football sensation, has been honored with Barcelona&#8217;s iconic number 10 jersey, a number that previously belonged to Lionel Messi. The official announcement was made this Wednesday, marking a milestone in the player&#8217;s promising career. Yamal, who celebrated his 18th birthday on Sunday, inherits the number from Ansu Fati, who recently joined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,1426,1427,4363],"class_list":{"0":"post-16693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-lamine-yamal","10":"tag-messi","11":"tag-no-10"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693","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=16693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}