Since we're talking about soccer...
Allow me to bring to your attention a player starting for the Spanish National Team in the European Championships: Lamine Yamal.
Lamine Yamal is 16 years old.
In the movies they generally don't even have 16 year olds play 16 year olds. It's too much trouble. They're not really up to the task. So they cast older people for those roles. But there's Lamine Yamal, actually 16, playing an intensely competitive game with the fastest, quickest, strongest, and most talented humans in the world, and doing it really well. A lovely diving save just prevented him from being the tournament's youngest scorer ever, but he did provide a dazzling assist.
Of course, we all did some pretty amazing things when we were 16 too.
Surely as good as Lamine Yamal.
No doubt that someone wrote it down somewhere.
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