Pressure gets discussed constantly in football, usually about missed chances and expectant crowds. Lamine Yamal, Spain's teenage forward, measured his own pressure against something else entirely. "My mother had me when she was 16, that's real pressure," he said. "My father had to figure out life, going out to the street to pick things up. All I have to do is play football." Asked to explain the weight of carrying a national team, he pointed the question straight back at his own family, refusing to let his own circumstances, remarkable as they already were at nineteen, be treated as the hardest thing anyone in his family had actually lived through, given everything his parents had gone through years before he ever kicked a ball professionally.
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