{"id":39401,"date":"2025-09-24T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/thebes-lamine-yamal-golden-ball-denied-by-age-but-promising-future\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T18:05:38","slug":"thebes-lamine-yamal-golden-ball-denied-by-age-but-promising-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/thebes-lamine-yamal-golden-ball-denied-by-age-but-promising-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Thebes: Lamine Yamal, Golden Ball denied by age, but promising future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Javier Tebas: Lamine Yamal’s age influenced the Ballon d’Or<\/h2>\n\nThe president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has expressed his opinion on the recent Ballon d’Or ceremony, where Lamine Yamal came in second place. Tebas believes that the player’s youth was a determining factor in the voting, but he is optimistic about his future.\n\nYamal, who turned 18 in July, was surpassed by Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9, Paris Saint-Germain forward, in the race for the prestigious award.\n\n\n

Despite not winning the Ballon d’Or, the young Barcelona talent made history by becoming the winner of the Kopa Trophy for the second time, an award that recognizes the best player under 21 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“If I had been over 23 years old, I would have won it too, I’m sure, but as I was younger, they gave him the other [Kopa Trophy],” Tebas commented.<\/p>\n\nJavier Tebas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nUnlike Tebas, Barcelona president Joan Laporta believes that performance in the Champions League was the decisive factor in the selection of the Ballon d’Or winner.\n\n\n

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Lamine Yamal qued\u00f3 en segundo lugar en la votaci\u00f3n del Bal\u00f3n de Oro, detr\u00e1s de Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 del PSG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nDemb\u00e9l\u00e9, 28 years old, scored 35 goals in 53 matches in all competitions with PSG, who won Ligue 1 and the French Cup, in addition to their first Champions League.\n\nFor his part, Yamal scored 18 goals in 55 games last season, helping Bar\u00e7a win LaLiga, the Spanish Super Cup and the Copa del Rey, but the team fell in the semi-finals of the Champions League against Inter Milan. Yamal, upon receiving the Kopa Trophy, stated that he must “keep working to win other awards in the future”.\n\nThe young player has broken numerous records since his debut with Barcelona at the age of 16, including being the youngest goalscorer in the history of LaLiga and the youngest player to participate in a European Championship. In addition, he was chosen as the Best Young Player of the tournament at the Euro 2024, where Spain was crowned champion.\n\nTebas is convinced that Yamal will win the Ballon d’Or in the near future.\n\n\n
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“If he continues at the level he’s at, which seems likely, I think there’s no doubt he will win the Ballon d’Or,” Tebas stated.<\/p>\n\nJavier Tebas<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Javier Tebas: Lamine Yamal’s age influenced the Ballon d’Or The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has expressed his opinion on the recent Ballon d’Or ceremony, where Lamine Yamal came in second place. Tebas believes that the player’s youth was a determining factor in the voting, but he is optimistic about his future. Yamal, who turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2549,156,1426,5723],"class_list":{"0":"post-39401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-ballon-dor","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-lamine-yamal","10":"tag-thebes"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39401","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=39401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}