The Ballon d’Or case for Lamine Yamal: When brilliance goes beyond numbers and records

There is an understandable temptation, when discussing Lamine Yamal, to begin with his age. 19. Still a teenager. Still young enough for every record he breaks to arrive with a footnote explaining how absurd it is. However, the strongest argument Barcelona can make for Lamine Yamal winning the 2026 Ballon d’Or begins by doing precisely […]