Euro 2024: Spain teenager Lamine Yamal passes college exams

Barcelona winger Lamine Yamal is celebrating forward of Spain’s Euro 2024 spherical of 16 match in opposition to Georgia on Sunday after efficiently passing his college exams.

Yamel, 16, obtained the excellent news at Spain’s coaching camp within the south of Germany, the place he has been combining his training with representing his nation on the match.

“I simply got here out of coaching and I have been advised all of it went nicely,” Yamal advised Spanish radio station Onda Cero. “I handed the exams and I’ve the ESO qualification now.

“If I am trustworthy, I noticed them on my telephone and it mentioned I had handed so I simply closed the applying, referred to as my mum and advised her.”

The outcomes correspond to the fourth yr of the ESO, which is the ultimate stage of secondary training in Spain, roughly the equal to GCSE exams in the UK or the highschool diploma in the USA.

Yamal, who will flip 17 the day earlier than the Euro 2024 last, had revealed earlier within the match that he had introduced his homework with him to the Euros.

“No,” he laughed in an interview with COPE when requested if his teammates had been ensuring he stored up along with his college work. “I research alone, however they make some jokes like ‘Go and research now. …’

“We’ve quite a lot of free time and when I’m in my room with nothing to do, I seize the iPad and do some homework. And when Nico [Williams] and Fermín [López] name me to play Ps, I am going downstairs with them.”

Yamal turned the youngest participant to ever characteristic on the European Championship in Spain’s opener in opposition to Croatia on the age of 16 years and 338 days outdated.

He has featured in all three video games for Spain on the match, serving to them progress to the knockout levels as the one facet with a 100% profitable report. They meet Georgia in Cologne for a quarterfinal spot this weekend.

In complete, he has earned 10 caps for his nation, scoring two targets and laying on 5 assists in these appearances.

{The teenager} can be already an everyday for his membership facet, Barça. He made 50 appearances for the Catalan facet final season in all competitions.