Messi: “Yamal reminds me of myself’’

Barcelona legend Lionel Messi has named Lamine Yamal as his successor.

The Inter Miami star picked Yamal as one young player that reminds him of himself. 

Messi said at a sponsor’s event: “There are great players who have a spectacular future.

“If I have to choose someone, I’ll choose Lamine for what he’s done so far at his age and for the future he has ahead of him.

“It depends on him, on many things too, because football is like that, but it’s the present and the future.