00:00Did Lionel Messi unknowingly meet his own successor in a baby bathtub?
00:04Back in 2007, a 20-year-old Messi walked into a Camp Nou dressing room for a charity calendar
00:10shoot.
00:10Waiting for him was a plastic tub and a six-month-old baby.
00:14That baby was Lamine Yamal.
00:16The child's family had won a UNICEF raffle to be photographed with a Barcelona player.
00:21The photographer says the shy Messi looked completely lost and did not even know how
00:25to hold the baby at first.
00:26Nearly two decades later, Yamal has become Barcelona's latest No. 10 and one of football's
00:32biggest young stars.
00:34And now, the baby Messi once cradled is standing between him and another World Cup win.
00:39Argentina and Spain will meet in the final, turning a forgotten charity photo into one
00:44of football's most unbelievable storylines.
00:47Messi helped bathe him as a baby.
00:48Now Yamal could end his World Cup reign.
00:51So is this the ultimate passing of the torch?
00:53Or does the legend still have one final lesson for his successor?
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