BARCELONA.- The young star of Barcelona, Lamine Yamal, He assured this Tuesday that “someday his time will come,” just hours after coming close to winning the Ballon d’Or.
“It will come,” Yamal said on his Instagram account. instagramin reference to the golden award that the English striker won on Monday Harry Kane.
“Good things take time, I trust in the path I am building,” added the Barcelona winger, who came in third place in the vote behind Kane and the French forward of the Real Madrid, Kylian Mbappé.
“Without haste, with enthusiasm and with the peace of mind that one day my moment will come,” he said, under a series of photos of himself at the Ballon d’Or gala.
Yamal, winner for the third time of the award for best young player, gave “congratulations” to the other winners and concluded by stating that he is once again focusing on Barça.
“My focus is once again on what is important, making FC Barcelona win again,” Yamal concluded.
Unai Simón thanks Athletic
Unai Simonawarded on Monday with the trophy Yashin as best goalkeeper of 2026 at the gala Ballon d’Orwas grateful to his club, the Athletic Bilbaoin statements offered at the theater London Palladiumshortly after collecting the award.
“Athletic has given everything for me, the life I have now is thanks to Athletic and one of the conditions I set for myself is that I wanted to be the best goalkeeper in the world, obviously burning stages, seeing it closer and closer, until today, and that is why I am very proud of the decision I made,” Simón, 29, told AFP.
Trained in the Basque club’s youth system, Simón has only defended the red and white colors since he debuted with the Bilbao team in 2018, despite spending a few weeks on loan at the club. Elchebefore the sale of Kepa Aguirrezabala to the Chelsea and the substitute’s injury Iago Herrerín They forced Athletic to play him back in the preseason, without having played any official match with the Elche club.
Trying to be the best goalkeeper in the world “is one of the conditions that I set for myself when all this started in the world of football in 2018, when they managed to get me a play-off from Elche,” the world champion told Spain.
“I couldn’t achieve it alone, I think that all the people who have been by my side at all times have made it possible for me to lift this award, and I am very grateful to all the people who have accompanied me along the way,” he concluded.
Simón also remembered, after receiving the award, the Spanish team, with which he won the World last July, after beating Argentina 1-0, in a tournament in which the Athletic goalkeeper only conceded one goal.
“It has been a great year, a great season for all of us. We have had a wonderful summer and I hope we continue to repeat it every year,” said the world champion goalkeeper.
