Lamine Yamal wants the Golden Ball

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Lamine Yamal, 19 years old, catches all the FC Barcelona news, believes he has enough reasons to win the Balón de Oro 2026, and places Kylian Mbappé as his main rival. The prize will be awarded on October 26th in London, after a season in which the Spaniard won titles with his club and the World Cup with the national team.

The player has reaffirmed his candidacy in an interview with Jorge Valdano that Movistar+ will broadcast next Friday. His reasoning is based on collective results: he was a League champion with FC Barcelona and lifted the World Cup with Spain, while Mbappé finished the season without collective titles despite his goal-scoring records.

Lamine Yamal bases his candidacy on titles

Lamine Yamal does not hide that he sees himself in the race for the top spot. In the interview teaser, the forward places his name and Kylian Mbappé above the rest but believes that the weight of trophies should sway the vote in his favor.

The Spaniard's candidacy comes after finishing second in the 2025 Balón de Oro, behind Ousmane Dembélé. That result left him one step away from the prize, and in 2026, he is again among the 30 nominees announced on September 8th. The awards ceremony will be on October 26th at the London Palladium in London.

His competitive form also fuels the debate. On September 13th, he scored two goals in a 2-4 victory over Levante, a result that keeps Barça with a perfect record after the first five matchdays of LaLiga. Yamal thus enters the lead-up to the ceremony with a direct presence on the scoresheet.

Kylian Mbappé responds with goals at Real Madrid

Kylian Mbappé's candidacy presents a different profile. The Real Madrid striker ended last season as the top scorer in LaLiga, the Champions League, and the World Cup, although he could not accompany those numbers with a major collective title.

Mbappé, 27 years old, has also started the new season by adding to his European records. On September 8th, he scored against Inter and reached 71 goals in the Champions League, tying with Raúl as the competition's fifth all-time top scorer. Real Madrid thus boasts one of the candidates with strong statistical backing.

The debate extends beyond the two forwards. Ousmane Dembélé, the 2025 winner, has championed the candidacy of players from Paris Saint-Germain, a club with numerous nominations for the award.

The World Cup did not leave Lamine Yamal satisfied

Despite winning with Spain, Lamine Yamal admits that his individual performance in the World Cup fell short of his expectations. The player believes he could have had a greater influence and rejects using the injury he had before the tournament as the main explanation.

That level of demand is part of his argument for the future, but the next step already has a date. Lamine Yamal and Mbappé will find out the result on October 26th in London, where the titles of the FC Barcelona player will compete with the goal-scoring production of the Real Madrid forward.

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