La Liga 2025-26 awards
June 4, 2026 · 07:00 2 min read 6 views
It was another season to remember for Lamine Yamal and Barcelona, along with Getafe, Rayo and one notorious fan. Lamine Yamal made his mark and raised the bar. With the last kick of the opening game of 2025-26, Barcelona’s new No 10 – the teenager handed the iconic shirt once worn by Ladislao Kubala, Luis Suárez, Diego Maradona, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi – scored against Mallorca. This was his first goal as an adult and he celebrated by taking centre stage. La Liga’s title race had begun.
The day after the title was sealed, nine months on, as Barcelona’s bus made its way through the streets, from the top deck of the victory parade Lamine Yamal held a Palestine flag. “This is something I don’t normally like but I spoke to him and if he wants to it’s his decision,” Hansi Flick said. “He’s old enough: he’s 18.” Coming of age in the public eye wasn’t easy – isn’t easy – and the season hadn’t been either. There had been injuries and, Lamine Yamal later admitted, an “internal abyss”, but he had his third league title. Flick, the father figure whose own dad died on the morning they won the league and chose to share that with his other “family”, had his second. Had he ever felt so much love, the coach was asked. Flick replied that he never had.
The day after the title was sealed, nine months on, as Barcelona’s bus made its way through the streets, from the top deck of the victory parade Lamine Yamal held a Palestine flag. “This is something I don’t normally like but I spoke to him and if he wants to it’s his decision,” Hansi Flick said. “He’s old enough: he’s 18.” Coming of age in the public eye wasn’t easy – isn’t easy – and the season hadn’t been either. There had been injuries and, Lamine Yamal later admitted, an “internal abyss”, but he had his third league title. Flick, the father figure whose own dad died on the morning they won the league and chose to share that with his other “family”, had his second. Had he ever felt so much love, the coach was asked. Flick replied that he never had.