{"id":8155,"date":"2023-09-10T01:46:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/spains-16-year-old-lamine-yamal-enjoys-historic-debut-becoming-his-countrys-youngest-goalscorer-and-player\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T01:46:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:46:44","slug":"spains-16-year-old-lamine-yamal-enjoys-historic-debut-becoming-his-countrys-youngest-goalscorer-and-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/10\/spains-16-year-old-lamine-yamal-enjoys-historic-debut-becoming-his-countrys-youngest-goalscorer-and-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s 16-year-old Lamine Yamal enjoys historic debut, becoming his country\u2019s youngest goalscorer and player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Barcelona teenager Lamine Yamal came off the substitutes\u2019 bench against Georgia on Friday to make history twice.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The forward was introduced in the 44th minute to become, aged 16 years and 57 days, Spain\u2019s youngest men\u2019s player, breaking the record previously held by Gavi who had made his international debut in 2021, aged 17 years and 62 days.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The teenager then completed the scoring for Spain in the 74th minute for a 7-1 Euro 2024 qualifying win, becoming his country\u2019s youngest scorer and breaking another record which was held by Barcelona teammate Gavi.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In August, Yamal made his full debut for Barcelona to become the youngest player to start a La Liga match in the 21st century, and he was named the league\u2019s U23 player for that month.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      When he made his debut for Barcelona in April aged 15, he became the club\u2019s youngest player in more than a century.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u00c1lvaro Morata scored a hat trick for Spain, while an own goal from Solomon Kverkveila and goals from Dani Olmo and Nico Williams secured a thumping win for the Spaniards.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Spain is second in Group A, nine points behind Scotland with the Scots having played two games more.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona teenager Lamine Yamal came off the substitutes\u2019 bench against Georgia on Friday to make history twice. The forward was introduced in the 44th minute to become, aged 16 years and 57 days, Spain\u2019s youngest men\u2019s player, breaking the record previously held by Gavi who had made his international debut in 2021, aged 17 years <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}