The Kings League has made a statement ahead of its next season with the announcement this Saturday of its new star. It is none other than the great figure of FC Barcelona and champion of the Euro 2024 with the Spanish National Team, Lamine Yamal.
With a post on social media that read “Let’s get into the game,” the popular tournament created by Gerard Pique and Ibai Llanos presented its new star after an intriguing campaign that included a giant advertisement on a major avenue in Madrid.
The player himself, also via the same channel, gave a message after his announcement. “The Kings’ 2024-25 season begins here. We’re going to play the game,” said the forward who is currently with the Spanish national team in the UEFA Nations League.
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Lamine Yamal is coming off a dream season both with FC Barcelona, where he established himself as a starter at just 17 years old and also with Spain, being one of the main figures that led them to win the Euro Cup Germany 2024 after beating England in the final.
Although it has not yet been revealed what role the FC Barcelona player will play in the Kings League or which team he will be playing for, it is expected that in the coming days, more information will be known about his signing, which has had a good reaction from fans.
For now, we will have to wait to see when Lamine Yamal will be playing in the upcoming Kings League season, which will start next Sunday at the Cupra Arena in Barcelona. The player draft will be held during the week to find out how the teams will be formed.
Other figures who have participated in the Kings League
Lamine Yamal is the latest of the football figures to join the Kings League project, which was played for the first time in 2022 and, following the great response from fans, has so far had three editions of the championship in various countries.
Additionally, other legends of world football have played in the championship, including the Brazilian Ronaldinho, the Italians Francesco Totti and Andrea Pirlo, the Spaniard Iker Casillas (also president of a team), the Ukrainian Andriy Shevchenko, among others.
Lamine Yamal ‘signs’ for the Kings League
And everyone who thought this was right because the announcement was a real bombshell. It concerns none other than Lamine Yamal, one of the youngest and most promising stars in world football who, at 17 years old, is already an undisputed starter for FC Barcelona and the Spanish national team, with whom he was champion of the European Championship this summer, playing a key role in their title win.
Although the striker has not been able to be present at the Cupra Arena due to being with the national team for the Nations League matches, Lamine wanted to send a message and has appeared in a video.
His message was: “Here begins the 2024-25 Kings season. Let’s play the game .” It was already known that the Spanish-Moroccan was a big fan of the league, so it is a great blessing to now be able to count on him to be part of the project.
However, the exact role that Lamine will play in this Kings League Infojobs is still unknown. We will have to wait a few more days for that, but it is clear that in terms of impact and dissemination, as well as attracting new audiences, it is a brilliant move by the president of the competition, Gerard Pique.
