Barcelona star Lamine Yamal has been topped the breakthrough athlete of the yr by Laureus, at a glitzy sports activities awards evening in Madrid. The 17-year-old was considered one of a lot of headline names honoured on the awards, together with Novak Djokovic, Simone Biles and Mondo Duplantis amongst others.
Lamine Yamal didn’t attend the awards occasion in Madrid, lower than 24 hours earlier than Barcelona tackle RCD Mallorca at Montjuic in La Liga. Nonetheless he did ship a video message as his acceptance speech, stating that he hoped that crew honours had been to observe the person ones.
“Good night, everybody. I’d have cherished to be there with you, but it surely wasn’t potential. To begin with, I needed to thank the Laureus Academy for the award. It’s an honour for me and my household to obtain this sort of award,” he instructed Sport.
Official: Lamine Yamal is the Laureus World Breakthrough of the 12 months. @LaureusSport pic.twitter.com/n2OMS5BA5T
— barcacentre (@barcacentre) April 21, 2025
“I don’t wish to overlook the workers of the nationwide crew and Barca, and clearly my teammates, with out whom I wouldn’t have gotten right here. I hope the crew titles come as nicely, as a result of in the long run, that’s what all of us need. I’m very completely happy to obtain the award. I’ll hold working in the direction of these items, and I hope the season goes nicely.”
In the meantime Actual Madrid had been awarded the crew of the yr by Laureus, having secured the Champions League and La Liga titles in 2024. Captains Luka Modric and Dani Carvajal had been in attendance to gather the award.
“I needed to thank Laureus on behalf of Actual Madrid. Our membership is proud to obtain such a prestigious award. I believe we had an amazing season, successful many trophies and exhibiting excellence on the pitch. We reached the very best ranges final season,” Modric defined, as relayed Marca.
In the meantime Carvajal despatched a rallying cry to Actual Madrid forward of the Copa del Rey ultimate this Saturday evening in Seville.
“It’s a must to get again in your ft when a tricky blow just like the Champions League comes your method. We’ve an enormous problem on Saturday with one other ultimate and La Liga at stake. We’ve to take a step ahead and present the crest we put on on our chest. There is no such thing as a higher time to get again up.”
Barcelona will go into the match as sizzling favourites in opposition to Los Blancos, the place a lot of the speak is about the way forward for the managerial place reasonably than the Copa ultimate in current days, regardless of the actual fact Actual Madrid are nonetheless very a lot within the hunt for La Liga and the Copa. The Blaugrana have proven indicators of vulnerability in current video games although, conceding thrice in opposition to Borussia Dortmund and Celta Vigo in successive video games.