Yamal out for three weeks, Barça fuming with Spain national team | OneFootball

Lamine Yamal will be unavailable for Barcelona and the Spanish National Team due to aggravating the injury he has been dealing with in his pubis, a situation that has reopened the conflict between the club and the national team over how his situation was handled.

Originally, the star forward, just 18 years old, was part of the squad called up by Luis de la Fuente for the matches corresponding to the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers, although a statement from the Blaugrana led to the scandal.

Before La Roja could announce that Yamal was being withdrawn, Barça issued their own statement revealing that their star would not be playing this weekend against Sevilla, announcing a recovery period that would prevent him from wearing his national team's jersey. "The discomfort in the pubis that player Lamine Yamal has been experiencing reappeared after the match against PSG. He will be unavailable against Sevilla, and the estimated recovery time is 2-3 weeks," the Catalan entity announced.

In light of this scenario and the immediacy of the matches against Georgia and Bulgaria, the RFEF finally announced that Yamal was removed from the list, not without a veiled criticism towards Barça in the process: "Following the request for medical information by the RFEF's medical services yesterday, the FC Barcelona's medical services have sent this afternoon, once the official call-up was published, some discomfort in the pubis area of the Blaugrana forward. Therefore, in order to promote a quick recovery without any risk, as is done with all players who play with the Spanish National Team, he is being withdrawn from the squad."

In the last month, the tense relationship between the national team and the Catalan club became public after Hansi Flick (Barça's coach) questioned De la Fuente in a press conference for injecting Yamal to make him play, while De la Fuente's response was swift: "I was simply surprised by his statements because he was a coach and I thought he would have that empathy," he replied harshly.

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