Some photos age badly, others evoke nostalgia, and a few, a very few, become the prophecy of a fortune-teller nobody believes. The one of Leo Messi bathing a five‑month‑old baby in the away dressing room at Camp Nou belongs to the third category.
That baby was (and still is) called Lamine Yamal and this Sunday, having just turned 19, he will come up against Messi in the World Cup final in the United States. The image that might have been just a fond memory on his parents’ bedside table has become the prologue to a final that no one could ever have written on purpose.
