John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent An icon of Catalonia, FC Barcelona is, it maintains, “more than a club.” In Spain, where soccer often has larger political reverberations, it was hugely symbolic that the country secured the lead in its 2-1 victory over England at Sunday night’s Euro 2024 final.
In the 47th minute, Lamine Yamal took the ball on the right, cut in-field ahead of England’s Luke Shaw and played a lovely weighted pass into the path of Nico Williams.
He screeched off the left wing, free of marker Kyle Walker, to side-foot the ball into the net with a clinical finish. Seventeen years old on Saturday, Yamal’s mother is from Africa’s Equatorial Guinea and his father from Morocco.
Williams, 22 on Friday, was born in Pamplona, northern Spain, to Ghanian parents. The two, close friends, have terrorized opponents with William’s speed and Yamal’s dribbling, wrong-footing despairing defenders.
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