Lamine Yamal: Equatorial Guinea and Morocco targeted Spanish footballer - BBC Sport

Both Equatorial Guinea and Morocco tried to persuade the Spanish-born teenage sensation to play for them.

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The teenage sensation has shone at the Euros

Lamine Yamal's peformance at the ongoing European Championships is set to boost football in Equatorial Guinea, says the country’s football federation.

The 16-year-old, who has stunned the world with his displays in Germany, plays for Spain despite having an Equatoguinean mother and a Moroccan father.

He was born in Barcelona, where he grew up and is coming through La Masia academy for the five-time European champions, with whom he recently concluded his first season of action.

"Even though Lamine is not playing for Equatorial Guinea, we hold him very close in our hearts and think he is going to do many things for Equatoguinean football," Venancio Tomas Ndong Micha, the country’s football federation president, told BBC Sport Africa.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn07d8g16xno

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