Two years to the day since Lamine Yamal made his debut in professional football at the age of 15, the teenager has taken another first in his stride.
On Tuesday, the Barcelona winger, now 17, took centre stage as he gave his first press conference on the eve of his side’s Champions League semi-final first leg against Inter.
If you had any concerns about how he might adapt to that situation, though, you need not have worried — Yamal is fearless.
“Fear while playing the game? I left all my fears in the park of my neighbourhood, back in Mataro, a while ago,” he said in the blink of an eye, a reference to the hours he spent playing against older kids while growing up in his neighbourhood of Rocafonda, a district around 30 kilometres (18 miles) to the north-east of Barcelona.