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Topps is creating a trading card of what became a famous World Cup photo of Argentina’s Lionel Messi holding Spain’s Lamine Yamal, the company said Monday.
Messi, considered by many to be football’s greatest player, was photographed with Yamal, then an infant and now a 19-year-old rising star. The two met in Sunday’s final, with Yamal and Spain defeating Messi and Argentina 1-0.
That match was a potential changing of the guard, with the 39-year-old Messi perhaps playing in his final World Cup.
Playing for Barcelona at the time of the initial meeting with Yamal, Messi participated in a fundraising campaign for UNICEF and ended up holding the player who could become the future face of the sport. Yamal has followed in Messi’s footsteps by becoming Barcelona’s standout player.
Report from the Associated Press
