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00:00This week on 60 Minutes we profile Lamin Amal, an ascending soccer player from Spain.
00:14Lamin Amal just finished second in the Ballon d'Or, soccer's equivalent of the MVP vote, and he is 18 years old.
00:22He is a dynamic, dynastic player for Barca, for Barcelona in La Liga, but has already achieved this measure of global fame.
00:31Lionel Messi's in his late 30s, and when you look for potential heirs, here is a player who's probably the top contender.
00:39Barca for Barcelona, this is one of the great seminal franchises, clubs of global soccer.
00:45History is more than 125 years old, and how austere and esteemed is this club?
00:52Next to the stadium, there is a museum dedicated solely to the team.
00:57Imagine Cooperstown right next to Yankee Stadium.
01:01One of the biggest ones.
01:02Guillem Balague was our tour guide. He's an esteemed Spanish soccer journalist, lives near Barcelona.
01:08He's also Lionel Messi's biographer, so no better person to give us the context of what Lamin Amal is doing in soccer.
01:15The inevitable comparisons from Lamin Amal and Messi, what do you make of those?
01:22Let's use the words of Lamin Amal when he says, you know, this goal has scored, it was brilliant against Bruges recently.
01:30Messi scored a thousand.
01:32I did it once, he did it a thousand times.
01:35That's it. Still a long way. Can he do it?
01:39He's got a lot of potential to get there.
01:42Certainly looks like, out of this generation, the player that could get there. We'll see.
01:49It's a cliché to say he never forgot where he came from.
01:52In the case of Lamin Amal, it's literal.
01:55He plays in these soccer boots, these soccer cleats, these Adidas shoes, and you can see they come adorned with the flag of Morocco, the country of his father.
02:04Ironically enough, the country that beat Spain in the previous World Cup.
02:07They have Equatorial Guinea, which is his mother's home nation.
02:10He was born in Spain, but he also has 304, which is the postal code of Rocafanda, this immigrant enclave north of Barcelona.
02:19So every time he puts on his soccer shoes, he has this sort of three-pronged reminder of where he comes from.
02:25He's the face of New Spain. Some people like it. It's a nation of many nations with the richness of emigration.
02:34And others will put it against him if things go wrong.
02:39This phrase we hear, the New Spain, what does that mean?
02:43It means that we thought we were, in a certain way, a nation of nations, Catalans, Basques, people from Galicia.
02:51We have different languages, different cultures.
02:54But now, with the influx of emigration, which in the last 15 years has been huge, it's transformed the way we look.
03:02Lamin Amal already exists on this global stage, but American soccer fans make it the chance to see him in person.
03:09And the U.S. will host the World Cup in 2026, along with Mexico and Canada, the first time since the mid-90s the World Cup has been hosted here.
03:19He's excited to be making his World Cup debut, but he also told me he's excited to be really coming to the stage of North America as well.
03:28What are your expectations for your first World Cup?
03:31You're only 18, but you've spoken a few times now about how you want to be perceived by kids.
03:32How do you want to be perceived by kids?
03:33You're only 18, but you've spoken a few times now about how you want to be perceived by kids. How do you want to be perceived by kids?
03:43Well, I think that in the world of football and sports in general, in the world of popular people, I think there are very few people who are sincere.
03:53And, so, I want to feel sincere that I want to feel sincere.
03:54And, so, I want to feel sincere that I see myself as a sincere person who says what they think and what they want to hear.
04:03In the world of football, sports and popular people, I think there are very few sincere people.
04:13And I want to be honest with you, who says what they think and what they want to hear.
04:19Someone who is concerned about their own. I think it's something very important.
04:25Someone who just wants to enjoy it.
04:27In the end, if you have this life, try to enjoy it. I don't think of what others do.
04:35I want to value what I have and, above all, that people see me.
04:39I don't want to be talking with you and be a person.
04:42And then that you know me personally and you realize how I am.
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