Lamine Jamal receives lots of love and support in a difficult time for him. Despite the shock when he heard about the knife attack on his father on Wednesday, the young football star is slowly recovering. He was really scared when he learned that his father, Mounir Nasraoui, had been attacked in a car park in Mataró. However, yesterday he went to train as usual at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper in preparation for the league match against Valencia tomorrow at 9:30 p.m. at the Mestalla.
The young player joined the practice with his teammates and is expected to be ready to play in his La Liga debut against Valencia. His teammates showed their support for Lamine Yamal at the start of training and enquired about his father’s condition.
Sources in the locker room confirm that the boy is fine and handles the situation calmly, especially since he knew that his father’s life was not in danger. It is truethat it is a very stressful situation for a seventeen-year-old who is struggling with the emotions of his football career and now has to deal with his father’s situation, when he should be shielded from anything that could affect him.
Unwavering support of the club
For this reason the club management and all authorities have been concerned about the player’s well-being from the beginning. Representatives of the club went to Can Ruti to meet Lamine Yamal’s father and advised him not to come that same day. He visited his father yesterdayto be by his side after morning training and to calm his nerves before the match against Valencia.
Lamine Jamal will be willing to participate Flick’s team, if there are no further problems today and tomorrow, just before the trip. The young striker is an important part of the coach’s strategy, but it is likely that he will initially sit on the bench at Mestalla. His performance in the second half of the Gamper match was crucial in improving Barcelona’s style of play at one point, even if the team’s comeback did not succeed in the end.
Flick needs a ready Lamine Yamal to strengthen the Barcelona team, but he doesn’t get enough playing time to be a regular player. Last season he was a substitute at Mestalla and played 9 minutes.
This content has been translated and adapted from the Spanish version of the digital newspaper
