{"id":1061865,"date":"2026-07-01T13:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1061865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:20:18","slug":"kylian-mbappe-is-a-phenomenon-france-star-far-superior-to-spains-lamine-yamal-claims-ballon-dor-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1061865\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Kylian Mbappe is a phenomenon&#8217; &#8211; France star &#8216;far superior&#8217; to Spain&#8217;s Lamine Yamal, claims Ballon d&#8217;Or winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:start\">While the footballing world has been captivated by the rise of 18-year-old Yamal, Weah was quick to shut down any suggestions that the Barcelona youngster is currently on Mbappe&#8217;s level. Despite Yamal&#8217;s confidence, having recently claimed that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/lists\/win-world-cup-lamine-yamal-france-not-better-than-spain\/blt9e8869bfda49738f\" target=\"_blank\" data-affiliate-type=\"NONE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">France is &#8220;not better&#8221; than Spain<\/a>, the Liberian icon believes there is still a significant gulf between the two stars. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\">&#8220;Well, Lamine Yamal is just a young boy, as you know. You shouldn\u2019t compare him to Mbappe,&#8221; Weah said when asked about the two generational talents. &#8220;Mbappe is a phenomenon, while Lamine is still developing and growing. All I hope is that Lamine continues on his path. But you can\u2019t compare him to Mbappe. Everyone knows that Mbappe is far superior.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the footballing world has been captivated by the rise of 18-year-old Yamal, Weah was quick to shut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1061866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5312],"tags":[199,2000,299,36,70202,140607,7325,544,104,1514],"class_list":["post-1061865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-barcelona","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-k-mbappe","tag-l-yamal","tag-laliga","tag-real-madrid","tag-spain","tag-world-cup"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1061866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}