{"id":3116,"date":"2026-06-13T16:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2026-06-13T16:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T16:28:24","slug":"lamine-yamal-makes-very-expensive-tickets-worth-it-as-former-barcelona-star-zlatan-ibrahimovic-backs-blaugrana-spain-wonderkid-to-illuminate-2026-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=3116","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal makes \u2018very expensive tickets\u2019 worth it as former Barcelona star Zlatan Ibrahimovic backs Blaugrana &#038; Spain wonderkid to illuminate 2026 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"A\">\n<div>\n<p>While millions have watched Yamal\u2019s meteoric rise through television screens, Ibrahimovic insists that seeing the winger in person is an entirely different proposition. The former AC Milan and PSG forward highlighted the technical nuances that set the youngster apart from his peers. These qualities were fully on display during Yamal&#8217;s spectacular 2025-26 season with Barcelona, where he scored 24 goals and provided 18 assists in 45 appearances across all competitions, capping off his stellar campaign by winning the La Liga title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn TV he looks special and he looks good. But up close he\u2019s even more special,\u201d Ibrahimovic added. \u201cAt 18, it\u2019s incredible. Every time he touches the ball, you can see he\u2019s different. His ball control, dribbling, goal-scoring ability\u2026 so all my hopes for a great game are on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While millions have watched Yamal\u2019s meteoric rise through television screens, Ibrahimovic insists that seeing the winger in person is an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}