Yamal out for three weeks, Barça fuming at Spain selection | OneFootball

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

Originally, the star forward, only 18 years old, was included in Luis de la Fuente’s squad for the upcoming World Cup 2026 Qualifiers. However, a statement from the Blaugrana sparked a scandal.

Before La Roja could announce that Yamal was being withdrawn, Barça released their own statement revealing that their star would not be available this weekend against Sevilla, and that his recovery period would prevent him from representing his national team. “The pubis discomfort that Lamine Yamal has been dealing with has reappeared after the match against PSG. He will miss the game against Sevilla and the estimated recovery time is 2-3 weeks,” announced the Catalan club.

Given this scenario and the imminent matches against Georgia and Bulgaria, the RFEF finally announced that Yamal was no longer part of the squad, not without taking a swipe at Barça in the process: “After a request for medical information from the RFEF medical staff yesterday, the FC Barcelona medical staff sent this afternoon, once the official squad was published, a report of discomfort in the pubis area of the Blaugrana forward. Therefore, in order to ensure a prompt recovery without any risk, as is done with all players who play for the Spanish National Team, he is withdrawn from the squad.”

In the past month, the tense relationship between the national team and the Catalan club has become public after Hansi Flick (Barça’s coach) questioned De la Fuente in a press conference for injecting Yamal so he could play, while De la Fuente’s response was swift: “I was simply surprised by his statements because he was a national team coach and I thought he would have that empathy,” he replied sharply.

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