Media want to 'kill' Yamal if he underperforms, claims De la Fuente

Spain boss Luis de la Fuente hits back at the media’s treatment of teenage star Lamine Yamal

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00:00You have to ask Alamin to keep enjoying football, to keep doing what he likes,

00:06to do it with that way of understanding football, and we have to ask the rest of the football players

00:13to understand that he is a footballer who has to mature, who has to keep training,

00:18who can go very far, but the first ones you are going to criticize and kill are you.

00:24All of you who are saying he is a genius and a genius are you,

00:27because when he is missing two days without scoring, you will say he is missing a goal.

00:31It is incredible. So he has to be prepared for that criticism.