Today may be a big day for Lamine Yamal but so was yesterday — with it being his 17th birthday. So if anyone is referring to the flying Spain winger as 16 years old, they are now officially out of date.
So how do you guide and look after such a young squad member? Here’s Spain captain Alvaro Morata to UEFA:
💬 “With affection; showing confidence in him. Most of the players here have been together for months, and we’ve been telling him, ‘We’re going to win the Euros!’
“We’ve been advising him to think about details of how he can help us achieve that. We try to protect him in small details, because he’s a footballer who is different from almost anyone else. But we can say that about Nico (Williams), Dani Olmo. I think they’re all special. I could name our entire squad.
“Now we’re just one step away from making history again, but we’ll have to fight hard because it’s going to be a tough final.”