Yamal was special from the very beginning - Deco - video Dailymotion

Barcelona sporting director Deco explains what makes Lamine Yamal different from other talented young players.

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00:00Lamin is special from a very early age.

00:04Like many others, he had a very different technical ability.

00:11What you never know is how this player will behave in a completely different scenario.

00:17Playing with the cadets or the juveniles is one thing,

00:20but when you put them in the first team, it's complex.

00:23Some take it very easy, others are more difficult, others are slower, others are a process.

00:29But Lamin, more than his individual ability,

00:33his mental ability is completely different from what we are used to seeing.

00:37He is a player who is completely inherent to pressure,

00:42but who manages to have this mental ability

00:47of not feeling the weight of being a young player with everything he has been through in recent years.

00:56This is not an easy thing to measure, because there are no parameters.

01:00There are psychologists, there is mental analysis, a number of things,

01:04but this is only seen in the day-to-day and during the process that we are able to analyze.