{"id":983,"date":"2025-03-25T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2025-03-27T22:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T22:29:49","slug":"rafael-van-der-vaart-continues-lamine-yamal-criticism-you-become-dislikable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/rafael-van-der-vaart-continues-lamine-yamal-criticism-you-become-dislikable\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael van der Vaart continues Lamine Yamal criticism \u2013 \u2018You become dislikable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Real Madrid star and Dutch international Rafael van der Vaart has responded to Lamine Yamal, after the 17-year-old clapped back in emphatic fashion against him. During Spain\u2019s Nations League victory on penalties over the Netherlands, after a 5-5 aggregate draw, Lamine Yamal dedicated both his celebration and a social media post to van der Vaart\u2019s criticism of him.<\/p>\n

Van der Vaart had noted after the first leg that Ajax defender Jorrel Hato had the 17-year-old \u2018in his pocket\u2019. Although Lamine Yamal\u2019s pressure did result in the opening goal for La Roja in Rotterdam, van der Vaart explained that he had \u2018seen some things he did not like\u2019, such as his \u2018trousers lowered\u2019, and accused him of over-confidence.<\/p>\n

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After a brilliant goal in extra time, Lamine Yamal lowered his shorts<\/a> in celebration, and posted a screenshot of van der Vaart on Instagram with a caption<\/a> also aimed at him. However van der Vaart was asked for his response, and seemed not to have changed his opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would advise Lamine Yamal not to worry so much about what an overweight former player says,\u201d van der Vaart responded on Ziggo Sport, as quoted by Relevo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jules Kound\u00e9 has been playing matches at a relentless pace this season. He already accumulates 3,541 minutes with Barcelona and he played 210 minutes for France in this international break. @bona_german<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 barcacentre (@barcacentre) March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAt 17, with so much praise, you think the world revolves around you. It\u2019s happened to all of us, but it\u2019s not the case. Football is fun, but not important. If you think you\u2019re some sort of God, you become dislikable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Certainly Lamine Yamal cannot be accused of lacking confidence, and at times, as with his penalty, it has perhaps hurt him. However his self-belief is so far proving very much one of his best virtues since he came onto the professional scene, allowing him to perform on the biggest stages and on many occasions, make the difference. No doubt Hansi Flick and Luis de la Fuente are following his every move closely to guard against that confidence spilling over.<\/p>\n

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Former Real Madrid star and Dutch international Rafael van der Vaart has responded to Lamine Yamal, after the 17-year-old clapped back in emphatic fashion against him. During Spain\u2019s Nations League victory on penalties over the Netherlands, after a 5-5 aggregate draw, Lamine Yamal dedicated both his celebration and a social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.albluesguide.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}