Lamine Yamal suffered a chronic injury and had to live with pain for the rest of his life?

According to Sport, Yamal has had problems in the pubic area three times since the start of the 2025/26 season. Yamal's type of injury is called pubalgia. This is a chronic syndrome that causes pain in the pubic area, is very difficult to treat and almost impossible to completely cure.

Explaining the condition, physiotherapist Lluis Puig says: "First of all, we have to say that pubic pain is a change in the pubic area, where different muscles converge.

We have been working on this type of injury at different levels, and we cannot say that the pain will go away in a month. No, every athlete will have to live with it. We will have to take preventive and therapeutic measures to ensure that Yamal can compete at the highest level."

Puig also revealed that the injury could be caused by a number of factors, including Yamal's posture and some of his muscles changing too quickly during development, causing the muscles and skeleton to not have time to adapt. Usually, athletes with this problem will have to live with it for life, and it is difficult to reach their maximum performance.

Meanwhile, sports trauma specialist Ripoll added that the injury will have a major impact on Yamal's ability to play football. "This is a really difficult injury to treat. It is characterized by pain that reduces the player's ability to move and shoot by almost 50%, exactly what we saw in El Clasico," Ripoll explained. "It is pain that prevents the player from being at his best and significantly reduces performance."

According to Sport, after working with Barcelona's medical team, Yamal decided not to rush into surgery. He will monitor his condition and if the symptoms do not improve in the next few weeks, the Spanish star will go under the knife.