Most 19-year-olds are figuring out their laundry situation. Lamine Yamal just won the World Cup.
The Barcelona winger helped Spain defeat Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup final, becoming a World Cup champion at just 19 years and six days old. That makes him the fourth-youngest player in the tournament’s history to lift the trophy.
A record that puts him in rare company
What makes Yamal’s case genuinely unusual is the combination of trophies on his shelf. He is now the youngest player in football history to have won both the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship.
The win came on July 19-20, 2026.
