end of Barcelona\u2019s season<\/a> but is expected back for the World Cup. Henry says he hopes to see the best version on Yamal at the tournament and feels he could be the star of the show.<\/p>\n\u201cI hope he\u2019s at his peak, because at the World Cup we want the best players in top form. Even if it\u2019s worse for France, I want to see the best Lamine Yamal there. We know he\u2019s an exceptional player, and he already proved it at the last European Championship, which Spain won, by the way,\u201d he told Marca.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut\u2026 you know what amazes me about Lamine? I remember in the semi-final against France, on a counter-attack, already winning 2-1, he had the chance to keep attacking, but no, at 17 years old, he had the intelligence to slow the game down, to control the pace, because that\u2019s what was best for the team. And he told his teammates as much.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe controlled the ball, brought it down, and laid it off to Carvajal. What?! At 17! People focus on his skill and technique, but what amazed me was his intelligence. That kid plays like he\u2019s in his own neighborhood. Time will tell what happens, but he\u2019s shown me he can be the star of any World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thierry Henry has shared his thoughts on Barcelona star Lamine Yamal and revealed how he\u2019s been amazed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,223,938,2269,3565],"class_list":{"0":"post-17101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-barcelona","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-fc-barcelona","10":"tag-lamine-yamal","11":"tag-rcd-espanyol-de-barcelona","12":"tag-thierry-henry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}