Photographs of Lionel Messi posing with a baby from a 2007 charity calendar have circulated widely on social media in recent years. The images, taken by photographer Joan Monfort approximately 17 years ago, have gained renewed attention online, with the baby in the photos later identified as Lamine Yamal.
Monfort captured the images for a charity calendar project featuring Messi during his early career. At the time of the photo shoot, the photographer was unaware of the identity or significance of the baby in the images. The resurfacing of these photos has drawn attention due to Yamal's subsequent rise as a football talent.
The viral circulation of these images has created a narrative linking two figures from different generations of Spanish football, with observers noting the coincidental nature of Messi and Yamal appearing together in the same photograph years before Yamal's professional career began.
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