Lamine Yamal has a bright chance to do something unprecedented at the prestigious award

The Kopa Trophy is one of the awards at the Ballon d'Or ceremony to honor the best player under the age of 21 of the year. Last year, Yamal won this award.

This year, the Spanish football prodigy was nominated for the award again, alongside other names such as Ayyoub Bouaddi, Pau Cubarsi, Desire Doue, Estevao Willian, Dean Huijsen, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Rodrigo Mora, Joao Neves and Kenan Yildiz.

PSG stars Desire Doue and Joao Neves are considered Yamal's biggest competitors for this award. They have the advantage of winning the Champions League with the Paris team.

However, Yamal also had a successful year with Barcelona. This player scored 18 goals and had 25 assists for Los Blaugrana last season. He helped Barcelona completely dominate domestic cups such as La Liga, Spanish King's Cup, Spanish Super Cup. Unfortunately, the Catalan team was eliminated by Inter Milan in the Champions League semi-finals despite their previous performance quite well.

Yamal is on the verge of becoming the first player in history to win the Kopa Trophy twice. In the past, Mbappe, De Ligt, Pedri, Gavi, Jude Bellingham have all won this award.

In addition, Yamal is also considered the strongest candidate to compete for the 2024 Golden Ball award. The 2007-born star's biggest rival for this award is PSG striker Ousmane Dembele. The French striker played brilliantly to help the Paris team win the Champions League for the first time in history.

If he wins the Ballon d'Or, Yamal will also make history as the youngest player to ever win the award. He is the clearest proof of the saying "talent does not wait for age". Yamal's influence at Barcelona (despite only turning 18) is no different from Messi at his peak.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/the-thao/lamine-yamal-sang-cua-lam-dieu-chua-tung-co-o-giai-thuong-cao-quy-20250807193111186.htm