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Lamine Yamal on playing in Euros and Olympics for Spain: “It wouldn’t make sense”

Related Topics: Pedri González, Lamine Yamal, Spain

Barcelona’s teenage superstar Lamine Yamal is already a full Spanish international and proves to have a key role for the national team this summer as La Roja will play in EURO 2024 in Germany, but Spain will also take part in the Olympic Games in Paris and there is already a ton of concern regarding Yamal’s potential participation in both.

Barça fans are having terrible flashbacks to 2021, when Pedri finished an amazing debut season with Barça and immediately went on to play in the Euros and the Olympics, going to extra-time in several matches and having zero vacation time, and that workload has infamously taken its toll on Pedri’s body in the three years that followed.