Both Equatorial Guinea and Morocco tried to persuade the Spanish-born teenage sensation to play for them.
Lamine Yamal's peformance at the ongoing European Championships is set to boost football in Equatorial Guinea, says the country’s football federation.
"We are enjoying his extraordinary performances at the Euros, on top of the great season with FC Barcelona. "He has our roots, and this shows that we are a country of good footballers," added Ndong Micha. Yamal's record as the youngest goal scorer at a Euros will be very hard to beat. As will his feats at Barcelona – for whom he is the youngest player to start a league game – and in La Liga, where he is the youngest scorer in history .Equatorial Guinea is a country split into two parts, with the capital Malabo located on one of its island areas while the largest city on its African mainland section is Bata, where Yamal’s mother was born.
"We contacted the family in 2021 but the advances with the Spanish football federation had gone very deep," Ndong Micha explained.
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