Barcelona’s star forward Lamine Yamal bluntly brushed off the controversy surrounding the allegedly illegal hiring of people with dwarfism for his 18th birthday party.
The prodigious winger hit adulthood on July 13 and celebrated the landmark occasion with a private event which has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Spain’s Association of People with Achondroplasia and Other Skeletal Dysplasias with Dwarfism (ADEE) threatened to take legal action against the teenager after claiming that “people with dwarfism hired solely for entertainment and promotional activities” were at the party.
