Two players born in 2007 just started a World Cup knockout match together. Pau Cubarsí and Lamine Yamal became the first teenage duo to do so for Spain since 1958, a year when Pelé was doing roughly the same thing for Brazil.
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Both Cubarsí and Yamal are products of FC Barcelona’s La Masia academy, the same development pipeline that produced Lionel Messi, Xavi, and Andrés Iniesta.
Yamal, born on July 13, 2007, is 18 years old. Cubarsí, also born in 2007, is 19. The last time Spain fielded a pair of teenagers in a World Cup elimination game was during the 1958 tournament in Sweden.
