Barcelona’s fitness coach Julio Tous has been quizzed on Lamine Yamal and revealed just want it’s like to worth with the incredible teenager.
Tous joined [Barcelona’s coaching staff](https://www.barcablaugranes.com/2024/4/25/24140296/xavi-makes-two-additions-to-backroom-staff-in-bid-to-ease-barcelonas-injury-problems) last summer and admits he was blown away by Yamal in his first training session.
> “First of all, Lamine’s quality, I think, is visible to any outside observer, but I have to admit that the first day I saw him, I had to rub my eyes,” he told Flash Score.
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> “Because, all of a sudden, I saw a sort of, I don’t know if I should call it something between a panther and a snake, moving at a very fast speed.
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> “And I said: ‘I’ve seen what I’ve seen, if it’s the first training session and he’s already like that, and he’s coming from doing nothing in theory, the quality this kid has is incredible’.”
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> “So, first of all, what’s inside this kid is clear that to do what we see on the pitch, he has to be 24 carats? No, 48. Because we already see the body he has. I mean, he’s not fully developed yet, and of course, the power he’s capable of putting on a ball or in acceleration, in stopping, is dazzling.
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> “This internal wiring, I can assure you, is of a very high level. So that makes everything easier, because you either have it or you don’t. Just like the great sportspeople in history were outstanding at that level.”
Tous also spoke about how Yamal is just as impressive off the pitch as he is on it.
> “What surprised me most about Lamine is how you can be so mature and somehow so stable in your behaviour at that age, because I certainly was not,” he added.
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> “I mean, I think that when we are that age, hormones kill us and you have days of ups and downs, fights with your mother, with your grandmother, with everyone, because you are an unstable teenager by definition.
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> “I think Barca and La Masia have done an incredible job in terms of education, because he is a polite, respectful boy, and you never see him in the dressing room doing anything out of place.”
[Yamal played a key role in Barca’s double-winning season](https://www.barcablaugranes.com/2025/5/16/24431183/lamine-yamal-cements-his-legend-as-wonderkid-fires-barcelona-to-la-liga-title) at the age of just 17. He will turn 18 over the summer and will surely only get better and better in the coming years.