Top Footballer Lamine Yamal (18) Opts for Unusual Outing Before World Cup Debut with Spain

The World Cup is likely to start with a false dawn for Yamal. The Barcelona winger is still battling an injury, which will prevent him from participating fully in the group stage. Spain is set to face Cape Verde, Saudi Arabia, and Uruguay in that order. It's expected that coach Luis de La Fuente will ease Yamal back into action. Hopes are high in Spain that the winger will be fully fit for the final group match.

However, Yamal doesn't seem overly concerned about his availability for the World Cup. He shared a series of photos from his first days in America on Instagram. These include pictures with his football friends Gavi (FC Barcelona) and Nico Williams (Athletic Bilbao). Yamal even posted a snapshot of himself in the dentist's chair for a check-up. Whether he visited a dentist in America isn't clear from the photo. Nevertheless, one particular photo caused quite a stir online.

That photo was of Yamal at the supermarket. A video had previously surfaced showing the Spanish winger doing some shopping at the well-known Walmart in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. This is despite Yamal and the Spanish squad staying at a luxurious resort in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Spanish team will have a large contingent of their own chefs, leading many to question what Yamal was doing at a supermarket. Furthermore, Spaniards are wondering why the winger was at a supermarket thirty kilometers from the team's base in Tennessee.

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