{"id":9953,"date":"2025-01-29T09:38:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/champions-league-best-young-players-in-tournament-so-far\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:38:05","slug":"champions-league-best-young-players-in-tournament-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/champions-league-best-young-players-in-tournament-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Best young players in tournament so far"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Barcelona have not won the Champions League since 2015 but there’s a quiet confidence that their wait could end this year.<\/p>\n

The evergreen Robert Lewandowski, 36, is top of the competition’s scoring charts this season – but at the other end of the age scale, it is 17-year-old Lamine Yamal, a star for Spain at Euro 2024, who has been conjuring up memories of Lionel Messi with his performances.<\/p>\n

“This guy, I would pay money to watch him,” former France midfielder Emmanuel Petit told TNT Sports recently.<\/p>\n

“He can play right-footed, left-footed, he can dribble with both feet, so it’s impossible.<\/p>\n

“On top of that, he’s got the vision, the intelligence, the movement. He’s got everything at 17 years old.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Barcelona have not won the Champions League since 2015 but there’s a quiet confidence that their wait could end this year. The evergreen Robert Lewandowski, 36, is top of the competition’s scoring charts this season – but at the other end of the age scale, it is 17-year-old Lamine Yamal, a star for Spain at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9955,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9953\/revisions\/9955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}