Lamine Yamal insists that the grandmother is present for the signing photos of Barcelona | Soccer

Yamal blade, Barcelona and the feeling of Spanish football, delayed the official photo shoot for the signing of his new club contract so that her grandmother can be present.

The 17-year-old, who won hearts and minds not only with his talent on the ground, but for his humility, credit Fatima, his paternal grandmother, keeping his feet on the ground after his parents separated at the age of three.

Barcelona announced Tuesday that Lamine Yamal had signed a new contract in the presence of the club president, Joan Laporta, and the Deco sports director. The agreement maintains him to the club until 2031, when he was still only 24 years old and has a buyout clause of 1 billion euros (840 million pounds sterling).

However, the signature’s official photo session was postponed until July, when Lamine Yamal was 18, because Fatima could not attend on Tuesday.

Fatima left Morocco in 1990 and arrived in Barcelona accompanied by his five children, including the father of Lamine Yamal, Mounir Nasraoui. She played a key role in the education of Lamine Yamal after her mother, Sheila Ebana, of Equatorial Guinea, and Nasraoui separated.

When Lamine Yamal offered to buy Fatima a house she refused, saying she preferred to stay where she was in RocaNen, the working class district in Mataró, a coastal city north of Barcelona.

True to its origins, Lamine Yamal celebrates his objectives with his hands forming the figures 304, the postal code of RocaNen.

Already classified by many experts like the best player in the world, he signed for Barcelona in 2014 at the age of six, and was raised at Masia, the famous club-football academy of the club. He made his first team debut in 2023.

At the UEFA European Championship last year, he became the youngest player to appear in the competition, scoring the goal of the France tournament in the semi-finals.

During the competition, which was held in Germany, the use of Spain of their young star was limited by the local labor laws which prohibit anyone under 18 at work after 20 hours.

Last year, Lamine Yamal became the youngest player to be nominated for the coveted Ballon d’Or, winning the Kopa trophy for the best young player. At 16, he broke the record held by his teammate in Barcelona Gavi as a youngest scorer in Spain.