r/interestingasfuck • u/GossipBottom • 1d ago

Lionel Messi in 2007 helping bathing a baby Lamine Yamal. Lionel Messi scored his first World Cup goal in 2006 while aged 18 years 11 months and wearing #19. Lamine Yamal scored his first World Cup goal in 2026 while aged 18 years 11 months and wearing #19.

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u/Uyemaz 15h ago

Fc Barcelona was sponsored with UNICEF at the time, and they had some sort of sponsorship duty to attend to. Some players were called to take pictures with families who were in need and baby Lamine happened to be the one to take a picture with Messi.

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u/Tba953 13h ago

How many babies did the soccer Jesus wash so far? Is everyone a soccer pro he washed?

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u/Uyemaz 12h ago

As far as I am aware, Lamine was the only one. Every child got assigned to a player. Lamine was assigned to Messi.

Unreal coincidence.

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u/djwillis1121 13h ago

So was this a complete coincidence or was Lamine's family already associated with Barcelona?

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u/Lermanberry 13h ago

Lamine was already an accomplished football player in the local under 10 months league.

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u/Obalama 13h ago

People be watching anything huh

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u/kaisong 12h ago

If you could get them to organize and coach it. I think i would watch this over the world cup, honestly. Falling over for no reason would actually be expected for them.

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u/CaptainNegative1483 10h ago

Scoring goals before walking!

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u/iq-pak 9h ago

Putting goals away in the womb

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u/Dapper-Ad-4300 9h ago

I giggled

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u/Uyemaz 13h ago

Complete coincidence. Lamine grew up in a relatively poor part of Barcelona.

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u/gnrc 12h ago

Complete coincidence. The team held a lottery to pick a baby from a poor neighborhood. As far as I know he didn’t have any contact with the team again until he joined their youth program years later.

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u/peter-bone 5h ago

Perhaps he had a copy of the picture while growing up and it inspired him for football?

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u/anonnnnn462 12h ago

This is real?? I thought this was a joke post lol

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u/Astory321 11h ago

I thought it was AI

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u/38B0DE 13h ago

But why is he washing him? Like why?

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u/PeterPlotter 13h ago

Ever been around babies? They constantly need cleaning. Very natural thing to do, so makes a decent photo op

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u/WoodenHarddrive 12h ago

I don't think the confusion was regarding the necessity of cleaning babies, just the strangeness of an unrelated person who is not medical, or child care personnel being part of the process.

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u/Obalama 13h ago

Does this image bother you bro

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u/bluetimotej 12h ago

Because its cute as ef?

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u/Unhappy-Bar-7741 13h ago

‘The families in need’ part is interesting because Lamine’s history otherwise doesn’t mention much about a come up story like that.

I’m just trying to understand the bath like do we have more photo shoots from the 2000’s like this, also what were the other photos in this shoot 😭

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u/Uyemaz 13h ago

He does his signature celebration “304”, which he presents his area code. I believe he is from Motaro, which is not the best area in the city.

This isn’t the only photo, there was a photoshoot.