Messi bathed Yamal as baby in 2007 photo shoot, now they meet in World Cup final

Messi bathed Yamal as baby in 2007 photo shoot, now they meet in World Cup final

Photographer Joan Monfort took photos in 2007 of a teenage Lionel Messi bathing infant Lamine Yamal in a plastic bathtub as part of a charity calendar produced by local newspaper Sport and UNICEF. Monfort, who works as a freelance photojournalist for The Associated Press, took the photos after Yamal's mother won a raffle of families in

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