# Lamine Yamal Compared to Messi and Ronaldo at 19

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120052587743285680
- Source account: [@ActuFoot\_](https://x.com/ActuFoot_)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:14
- Published: 2026-11-10
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19) We're looking at someone who is potentially gonna get to the two that I competed against, Ronaldo and Messi.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=5) He's the one I would say that I've seen live who potentially has got that level, if he continues obviously to evolve.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=13) You would say Mbappe and Haaland are around there in terms of being in the prime years.

[0:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=18) But if you're looking at a youngster, we have a lot of superstars around the world, but I just think he seems to be the one that's a little bit above that level.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=25) I think the biggest challenge for him and the people around him, and his coaches, and the people that look after him at Barcelona is how do they keep him hungry?

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=33) You know, how do they keep him wanting to keep achieving things with his team and also individual awards?

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=39) Because in terms of the talent and the potential, it's scary.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=42) He's doing things on a football pitch that I've never seen a 19-year-old do.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=46) I think he's more advanced than Ronaldo at 19.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=49) He's more probably advanced. I played against Messi as a youngster.

[0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=52) I played against Ronaldo as youngsters. They played a lot wider where he plays.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=56) I think he's more advanced than them at that age.

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=58) Can he go and produce them numbers and the consistency? We'll have to see.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=61) You know, is he gonna become a nine further on in his career to get the volume of goals like Messi and Ronaldo have become? We'll have to wait and see.

[1:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/IziUHAWvSQrA/en/lamine-yamal-compared-to-messi-and-ronaldo-at-19?t=69) But in terms of the three of them at 19, I think he's more advanced than them