"We hope people liked our dance"

Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal are enjoying everything they are experiencing at Euro 2024 away from the pressure, having become great sensations of the tournament with Spain at the age of 21 and 16, respectively, but showing that they have their feet on the ground by affirming that, despite feeling that everyone is watching them, their "strength is the team".
"A lot of people are watching us, but we know that our strength is the team, not just the individual," says Nico Williams from inside the Spanish national team camp, where he spends many hours with Lamine Yamal, who are close friends. "The good thing about the European Championship is that you finish a game and, four days later, you have another one: you only think about football. We have captains who don't let you get on your high horse because they keep you upright," adds Yamal.
Nico and Lamine are the joy of the group and two of the keys to getting the country back on board with the Spanish national team. Their image of them playing rock, paper, scissors with a bottle of water at the end of the round of 16 match against Georgia has gone viral. "He took the bottle from my hand and I was telling him something, he took the bottle and I said 'what are you doing? We played rock, paper, scissors, he won and he drank and spat out the water," Lamine recalled.
It's a practice they often do in their day-to-day lives, although they don't take it to the pitch. "For dessert, I'm too lazy to get up to get the orange juice and we draw lots," said Nico. "Not if it's a foul in the match, but during the day we do it," confirms Yamal.
Together, they performed a dance at the match against Georgia that they say came naturally to them, even though they spend the day doing things they see on TikTok. "It came naturally to us. We talked about it on the bus before the game, we did a dance that I hope people liked," Williams said. "When we get stuff on TikTok, not just dances, football stuff, we send it to each other, say it's cool and do it."