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Messi, Yamal and the photograph that won't go away
A 2007 image of a baby Lamine Yamal in Lionel Messi's arms has become the involuntary logo of Sunday's World Cup final, with both players calling the symmetry 'crazy' and 'incredible'.
This article was filed from the Monexus sports desk. The framing here treats the Yamal-Messi photograph as a story about institutional succession at La Masia, not as a stand-alone piece of sentimentality, which is how most wire copy has handled it so far.
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