That’s why he’s special’ – Thierry Henry reveals how he’s been wowed by Barcelona wonderkid Lamine Yamal

Former Barcelona star Thierry Henry has been talking about Lamine Yamal and revealed what’s impressed him the most about the teenager.

Yamal is already a superstar at the tender age of 17 after starring for club and country since breaking into the first team at Camp Nou.

Henry says it’s not just Yamal’s talent that he’s impressed by but the maturity he shows when he’s out on the pitch.

What impresses me apart from the goals and the skills and the step-overs is how mature he is,” he told GOAL.

“The way he plays the game…the game against France with Spain (at Euro 2024), he had the ball at one point, they were 2-1 up and on the counter, one-v-one with Theo Hernandez. He can go. But he stopped the ball, he passed it back to Dani Carvajal and he said to everyone to calm down. With his hands, he went calm down. And I was like, ‘wow, at this age you already know what you need to do’.

“If he tried to take the ball and play one-v-one nobody would’ve said anything, it’s normal. But he understood in that moment ‘I can’t lose that ball, France are trying to come back, so let’s keep it’.

“That’s why I think he’s special for me because he understands the game already, how to control the rhythm and tempo of the game. When you’re young, you just take the ball and do you, yet he has that already in his locker. So well done.”

Yamal has continued to show why he’s so special this season. The Barca star currently has 13 assists and 11 goals in all competitions for Barca.