Lamine Yamal of Spain celebrates together with his winners medal and ‘Greatest Younger Participant’ award after victory over England within the UEFA EURO 2024 remaining match at Olympiastadion on July 14, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
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Spain’s teenage phenom Lamine Yamal gained the European Championship and the match’s greatest younger participant award only a day after he turned 17. Yamal earned it largely whereas he was nonetheless 16, however he topped his contribution to Spain’s success by organising Nico Williams’ opening purpose in a 2-1 win over England within the remaining on July 14, 2024.
“That is one of the best (birthday) reward I might have requested for. It’s a dream come true,” Yamal stated. “It obtained robust after they tied the rating, however I don’t know what this crew is fabricated from as a result of we all the time combat again.”
Yamal grew to become the youngest participant to look on the European Championship, the youngest to attain within the match, and the youngest to play in a remaining. He completed with 4 assists and one purpose in his debut European Championship.
Yamal performs for Barcelona, following within the footsteps of his idol, Lionel Messi, after coming by means of the membership’s famed La Masia coaching academy. He’s additionally the youngest goalscorer within the Spanish league.
Harry Kane and Dani Olmo finish in a 6-way tie for Golden Boot prime scorer
England striker Harry Kane completed Euro 2024 in a six-way tie for the Golden Boot prime scorer as his crew misplaced the ultimate. It was one other particular person accolade for a participant but to win a serious trophy for membership or nation.
England’s Harry Kane walks previous the trophy after the ultimate match between Spain and England on the Euro 2024 match in Berlin, Germany, on July 14, 2024.
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Kane ended the match tied on three objectives with Spain midfielder Dani Olmo, Germany midfielder Jamal Musiala, Netherlands ahead Cody Gakpo, Slovakia winger Ivan Schranz and Georgia striker Georges Mikautadze.
Kane has now been a runner-up in back-to-back European Championship finals after England’s loss to Italy three years in the past, and a runner-up in a single Champions League remaining and two English League Cups. He’s gained a string of particular person awards, together with Bundesliga prime scorer final season at Bayern Munich, however the German membership had its first season and not using a trophy since 2012.
Kane is one in all 4 males’s gamers to have been prime scorer at each a European Championship and a World Cup, one thing he achieved in 2018.
UEFA allowed a number of gamers to share the Euro 2024 prime scorer award in the event that they scored the identical variety of objectives, in a change from latest tournaments. On the final males’s European Championship, Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Czech striker Patrik Schick each had 5 objectives however Ronaldo was named the winner as a result of he had an help and Schick had none.
Southgate to debate England future after Euro remaining defeat
England coach Gareth Southgate stated he would focus on his future in command of the nationwide crew after Sunday’s defeat left him as soon as once more making an attempt to work out why glory had eluded his facet.
Gareth Southgate, Head Coach of England, applauds the followers after the crew’s defeat within the UEFA EURO 2024 remaining match between Spain and England at Olympiastadion on July 14, 2024 in Berlin, Germany.
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England misplaced within the match’s showpiece match for the second time in a row below Southgate after substitute Mikel Oyarzabal scored an 86th-minute purpose to offer Spain victory.
Requested whether or not he would proceed within the job, Southgate instructed reporters: “I completely perceive the query and perceive you’ll want to ask it, however I must have these conversations with necessary individuals behind the scenes and I am clearly not going to debate that publicly first.
“Definitely, England have gotten some fabulous younger gamers,” he added. “We’ve got now been persistently again within the matches that matter. It is the final step that we have not been in a position to do.”
England – with solely the 1966 World Cup to their title as a serious trophy – have change into a drive in tournaments since Southgate took over the crew at a low ebb in 2016. They reached a semi-final and a quarter-final on the final two World Cups in addition to the ultimate of Euro 2020 — after they misplaced to Italy on penalties — and 2024.
“It is arduous to replicate so quickly after a defeat like this,” Southgate stated when requested if he could be in command of England for the 2026 World Cup. “After all, to take England to 2 finals has by no means been executed however we got here right here to win and we have not been in a position to try this.”