Lamine's virtues - passing and dribbling; Lamine's flaws - maths and history

It's easy for players, they say, what's there not to enjoy, especially during those big tournaments like Euros.

But what they don't tell you is that some boys have literally much more on their minds besides football. Like school, for example.

Spain's Lamine Yamal is an integral part of his team's starting XI, but is also a high-school pupil and his exams won't wait for the end of the European Championship.

Therefore, the talented 16-year-old is studying whenever training and games allow him. And his teammates joke with the teenager, telling him to go to study.

"Since we have a lot of free time, it's not something that I put in and say: 'Today at least two hours', when I'm in the room with nothing to do, I take the iPad and do a homework, and when Nico (Williams) or Fermin (Lopez) call me to join them with the Play Station."

Young Yamal has established a routine, and it keeps on going...

"Thanks to iPad, I see what they send me from school, I print it and then do it".

The highschool sorrows of young Lamine Yamal

And what about grades, will you have to take exams while still here?

"I suppose they will send them to me online because it depends on how far we go in the Euros. I hope we will go very far, and that I won't be going back to class anymore. So, if we reach the final, I won't return to school; I'll go directly on vacation."

Spanish journalists wanted to know what subjects were causing Lamine's headaches...

"Maths and history, you have to study them a lot."