Spain and Barcelona’s teenage football star Lamine Yamal revealed he had been to Brazil great Neymar Jr’s mansion in Rio de Janeiro for a short vacation in June last year, adding that in order to make his stay enjoyable, the ex-PSG player had gone to the extent of setting up a footvolley court on a miniature beach on the grounds of his lavish house.

“I went to his house, told him to give me a room or something, and he asked me, ‘What room?’ He then took me outside, where he’d set up a footvolley court that looked just like a beach, and said, ‘You play with this guy, and I’ll play with this one.’ I thought they’d be some of his friends or something, but they were the two best in the world [at that sport],” Yamal said on the La estrella que nos une podcast show recently.