{"id":738609,"date":"2026-07-02T09:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738609\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T09:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:12:11","slug":"lamine-yamal-names-his-three-favorite-players-of-world-cup-2026-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/738609\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal names his three favorite players of World Cup 2026 so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barcablaugranes.com\/fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news\/125281\/go-for-it-lamine-yamal-urges-julian-alvarez-to-join-barcelona\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lamine Yamal<\/a> has given his verdict on the players that have impressed him most at World Cup 2026 so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Barcelona teenager has been watching the action while with the Spain squad and has picked out a few of his favorites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cYes, I watch it. I watch the whole World Cup. The Netherlands game was more evenly matched, but the Germany game was more of a surprise,\u201d he told Cope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cOf the stars, I am liking Vini a lot. Obviously Messi, and Saibari I think is doing very well in the World Cup. I think he\u2019s a player who plays very good football. Not only scoring goals, but he\u2019s also playing well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Messi has shone once again for Argentina at the tournament, scoring six goals in three games for the defending champions to lead the Golden Boot standings along with Kylian Mbappe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Ismael Saibari has also impressed for Morocco, scoring the winning penalty to knock out the Netherlands in the Round of 32, and has just been announced as a new Bayern Munich player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal has given his verdict on the players that have impressed him most at World Cup 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1481,403,99,153412],"class_list":["post-738609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-barcelona-team-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-world-cup-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}