Lamine Yamal, 17, already has as many La Liga titles as Cristiano Ronaldo

May 23, 2025
2:14 pm

Lamine Yamal has now equalled the variety of La Liga titles that Cristiano Ronaldo gained and he’s completed it in significantly much less time.

The Barcelona wonderkid has taken the soccer world by storm since making his skilled debut in 2023, aged 15.

Yamal gained La Liga throughout his debut season with Barcelona, regardless of solely making one look for the membership that season.

He performed a complete of seven minutes in the course of the 2022-23 marketing campaign, however nonetheless managed to get his fingers on a La Liga medal as Barcelona gained the league at a canter.

His actual breakthrough got here throughout the next season in 2023-24 the place he made 50 appearances throughout all competitions and produced 16 objective contributions.

Nevertheless, regardless of making waves that yr, Barcelona completed 10 factors adrift of Actual Madrid and needed to accept second place.

After licking their wounds, Barcelona got here again with vengeance this season and have blown the competitors out of the water underneath Hansi Flick.

With Yamal enjoying a starring function, Barcelona not too long ago wrapped up their twenty eighth league title with two video games to spare after beating native rivals Espanyol.

“We didn’t have many clear probabilities however now we have a child in there who generally pulls one thing out of the golden ft he has and he gave us peace of thoughts to remain within the sport extra calmly,” Raphinha mentioned of Yamal after beating Espanyol.

“In January some individuals have been saying we’d battle to be third. We’ve confidence in ourselves. That’s the important thing. We belief within the work and in what we all know we are able to do.

“An important factor was the arrogance of the coach. Figuring out at the beginning of the season that he was relying on me, an individual who controls the group… it adjustments you in the long run.”

In La Liga this season, the 17-year-old has scored eight objectives and produced 15 assists, averaging a objective contribution each 116 minutes.

Nevertheless, these numbers don’t do Yamal justice. He impacts the sport in additional methods than one and Barcelona seemingly wouldn’t have gained the league with out him.

Having now gained his second league title on the age of 17, we dread to suppose what his trophy cupboard goes to appear like by the point he retires.

Compared to Yamal, Ronaldo solely gained two La Liga titles throughout his complete nine-year stint in Spain.

He completed second in La Liga throughout his first two seasons with the membership, earlier than profitable his first league title with Actual Madrid in 2011-12.

Then, after profitable his first league title, he needed to wait one other 5 years earlier than he gained it for a second time in 2016-17.

After all, Ronaldo loved loads of success with Actual Madrid in Europe, however his home trophy cupboard was pretty sparse compared.

We’ve crunched the numbers and have in contrast how lengthy it took Yamal to win two La Liga titles with Cristiano Ronaldo, together with evaluating their information throughout that point.