World Sports recently compared 17-year-old Yamal with Ronaldo at the age of 17. The article said that before the age of 18, Ronaldo only scored 5 goals at Sporting Lisbon (i.e., Portugal Sports) and has not yet played for the national team. Yamal, who is only 17 years old, has gained a foothold in Barcelona and the Spanish national teams.
Yamar has played 106 times for Barcelona's first team, scoring 25 goals, and has played 20 times for the Spanish national team, scoring 6 goals. Currently, he has won two La Liga titles, Copa del Rey, Super Cup Spanish and European Cup titles. Next, Yamal will face new challenges: win his first UEFA League championship, opponent is Portugal led by Ronaldo.
Royce had just started his professional football career at the age of 17 and 7 months. On September 19, 2002, he made his first appearance for Sporting Lisbon (i.e., Portugal Sports) in the UEFA Cup (then the League Cup). A few days later, on September 29, he made his Portuguese Premier League debut against Braga.
These games are just the starting point for Ronaldo at the age of 17, and are in sharp contrast with Yamal. While Ronaldo is still struggling to gain a foothold in Sporting Lisbon first team, Yamal has made more than a hundred appearances in one of the world's most demanding clubs and has become a regular in a national team that can compete for all the honors.
Ronaldo did not play for the Portuguese national team for the first time until August 20, 2003 in a friendly match against Kazakhstan, when he was 18 years old. At this age, Yamal has participated in official competitions such as the European Cup qualifiers for the Spanish national team, and has scored many key goals.
For Ronaldo, his real outbreak was at Manchester United (to where he transferred in 2003), after making 30 appearances at Sporting Lisbon and scoring five goals. At Manchester United, Ronaldo began his legendary journey and eventually became one of the greatest players in history.
Comparing the two's careers are always subtle, especially since Yamal's career has just begun and Ronaldo is about to end. But the data and performance show a clear conclusion: only a very small number of people can do what Yamal did at the age of 17, such as Bailey at that time.