The 18-year-old will wear the iconic number for the 2025-26 season and is currently in pre-season training ahead of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Yamal was asked what his manager has said about his shirt number change and had a pretty entertaining response.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Flick tell me? He told me to go to bed early, that there\u2019s a double session tomorrow,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cThe dressing room congratulated me, and I\u2019m grateful to them because without them I wouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yamal also spoke about following in the footsteps of greats such as Lionel Messi and Ronaldinho who have previously worn the 10 at Barca.<\/p>\n
\u201cMessi, Ronaldinho and Maradona are three legends, they are everything, they are three incredible players and I want to live up to it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no pressure and I am focused on football, I want to win the Champions League and the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 18-year-old will wear the iconic number for the 2025-26 season and is currently in pre-season training ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[1622,1200,1206,1205,1208,1210,1207,49,48,1619,700,1618,1621,1614,1624,1616,561,82,1623,1462,1620,1617,1615],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-about","tag-at","tag-barca","tag-barcelona","tag-barcelona-la-liga","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-blaugranes","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-flick","tag-front-page","tag-hansi","tag-him","tag-lamine","tag-no","tag-reveals","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-taking","tag-the","tag-told","tag-what","tag-yamal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}