At Finalissima 2025, Argentina icon Lionel Messi and Spain’s Lamine Yamal will reconnect.
When Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal represent Barcelona in the Finalissima next year, their past and present will be reunited.
Teenage sensation Yamal helped lead Spain to win at Euro 2024, helping the team defeat England 2-1 in Berlin on Sunday.
The 17-year-old, who contributed one goal and four assists in seven games, was voted the tournament’s Best Young Player.
Messi, on the other hand, assisted Argentina in winning their Copa America championship, marking their third straight major tournament victory.
This is true even if the 37-year-old was brought to tears during the Hard Rock Stadium final 1-0 victory over Colombia due to an ankle ailment.
After each of Yamal and Messi’s victories, they will now face off.
Argentina is the current champion after defeating Italy, the winners of Euro 2020, at Wembley in 2022.
Additionally, Messi and Yamal will rejoin in the 2025 edition; the latter was baptized as a newborn in 2007 by the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner.
When the two met at a charity calendar picture session, Yamal’s father made a joke about how fate had brought them together.
According to Mounir Nasraoui, Mundo Deportivo reported: “In life, coincidences occur.” Leo’s blessing for Lamine? or from Leo to Lamine? Maybe it was Lamine who blessed Messi.
