The defender of Barcelona, Jules Kounde, spoke about his relationship with Lamine Yamal and revealed that the teenager loves to play and explain how he helped him to get even better.
Counds and Yamal share the right flank of Barcelona and the former as “complementary” couples for both attacks and defense.
The right-back, who answered questions from reporters in the Nations League service at France, revealed that he would like to understand from Yamal how he can help him to be most effective.
But it is also about the other way, since Counds regularly conveys defensive instructions.
“We speak to find out how I can improve certain aspects, how the runs that can open up space for him, even though he can master two players with him,” said Kounde. “We are pretty complementary.
“Defensive I speak a lot to him to correct certain details about his positioning. We understand ourselves very well on and next to the field.
“People often forget that, although we see that he is doing extraordinary things, is only a child, a teenager who likes to play pranks, and that’s okay because I do it too.”
Yamal, who turns 18 in the coming summer, has been one of the best players of Barcelona since the early phases of last season – he has already broken numerous records and at his age has achieved far more than Lionel Messi – when he did the constant breakthrough under the former coach Xavi.
This campaign could still end with Barcelona to claim the title “La Liga and the Champions League. Yamal made his debut during the last domestic triumph of the club in 2022/23 at the age of only 15, but only played as a replacement towards the end of the season.
The last time Barcelona won the Champions League in 2015 was only seven years old.
With Real Madrid in La Liga, the Catalans are in a nutshell on points, but are due to a superior head-to-head record and have the additional advantage of a game in hand. Next in the Champions League will be a two -legged quarter -finals against Borussia Dortmund next month.