{"id":7477,"date":"2026-10-26T22:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2026-10-26T22:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:35:31","slug":"lamine-yamal-wins-kopa-trophy-for-3rd-straight-year-dedicates-it-to-pau-cubarsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7477","title":{"rendered":"Lamine Yamal Wins Kopa Trophy For 3rd Straight Year, Dedicates It To Pau Cubars\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Lamine Yamal won the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d\u2019Or gala on Monday, marking the third consecutive time he&#8217;s won the award given to the best player in the world under the age of 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>The 19-year-old had 16 goals and a league-leading 11 assists as Barcelona won La Liga for a second straight season, and he was named the league\u2019s player of the season. He added six goals in the Champions League, where Barcelona reached the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>A hamstring injury in April put his World Cup hopes in doubt, but he was able to make the 26-man squad that would go on to lift the title. He only scored once at the tournament (in a 4-0 win over Saudi Arabia) but he won a penalty in a 2-0 semifinal victory over France. Spain then beat Lionel Messi\u2019s Argentina 1-0 in the final for its second men&#8217;s world title.<\/p>\n<p><span>(Photo by Michael Regan &#8211; FIFA\/FIFA via Getty Images)<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Yamal dedicated the award to his Spain and Barcelona teammate Pau Cubars\u00ed, who finished as the runner-up for the Kopa Trophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>&#8220;I think this award should have gone to Pau Cubars\u00ed,&#8221; Yamal said. &#8220;I think he deserved it the most.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-baabd5ed>Cubars\u00ed won Young Player of the Tournament at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY Lamine Yamal won the Kopa Trophy at the Ballon d\u2019Or gala on Monday, marking the third consecutive time he&#8217;s won the award given to the best player in the world under the age of 21. The 19-year-old had 16 goals and a league-leading 11 assists as Barcelona won La Liga for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}