Lamine Yamal is ready to play for Spain —not against his childhood hero, Lionel Messi

Source: New York Post

Spain’s Lamine Yamal is one win from placing himself in soccer immortality. But with immortality comes the cost of dethroning his childhood hero, Argentina’s Lionel Messi. Yamal spoke to Diarro de Navarra back on June 19 ahead of their second group-stage match against Saudi Arabia and was asked about Messi.