Since a 2007 photo showed Lionel Messi helping bathe a baby Lamine Yamal, their careers have become linked by an incredible coincidence: Messi scored his first World Cup goal in 2006 at 18 years and 11 months old while wearing No. 19, and in 2026, Yamal did exactly the same — scoring his first World Cup goal at 18 years and 11 months old while also wearing No. 19.