Messi once bathed the same player he’ll now face in the World Cup final?

This is one of the craziest football stories you’ll ever read.

In 2007, during a UNICEF charity photoshoot, a young Lionel Messi was asked to bathe a 5-month-old baby.

That baby was Lamine Yamal.

It was just a photo. Nobody thought it would mean anything.

Nineteen years later.

The baby is now one of the biggest stars in world football.

And fate has brought them together on the biggest stage of all, the FIFA World Cup Final.

Today, they’re no longer in front of a camera,they’re standing on opposite sides of football’s biggest stage.

People are saying Yamal is young, fast, and fearless.

But experience is a different kind of strength.

They say old age is not a barrier when wisdom, experience, and greatness are involved.

Messi has spent years mastering this game.

In many ways, Yamal grew up admiring him and learning from the path Messi created at Barcelona.

So don’t write off the old lion just because a young cub is roaring.

My prediction, Messi lifts the trophy one more time.

If I’m wrong, I’ll congratulate Yamal.

But until the final whistle, I’m standing with Lionel Messi.