Barcelona's Flick says he'll 'always protect' Yamal

VIDEO SHOWS: BARCELONA TRAINING / SOUNDBITES FROM BARCELONA COACH HANSI FLICK  RESENDING WITH SCRIPT SHOWS: BARCELONA, SPAIN (NOVEMBER 1, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. FORWARD LAMINE YAMAL AMONG PLAYERS WALKING OUT FOR TRAINING 2. BARCELONA COACH, HANSI FLICK, WITH STAFF 3. STRIKER, ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI, WALKING OUT 4. PLAYERS WALKING OUT 5. PLAYERS ON PITCH 6. VARIOUS OF GOALKEEPERS TRAINING 7. VARIOUS OF PLAYERS WARMING UP 8. FORWARD, ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI, HOLDING MIDFIELDER, FERMIN LOPEZ, BY HIS SHOULDERS 9. FLICK ARRIVING AT PRESS CONFERENCE 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BARCELONA COACH, HANSI FLICK, SAYING: “The last two days I was very happy. I also appreciate a lot what I saw in the training, and of course Dani Olmo is back, Lewy (Robert Lewandowski) is back so it’s good news. Of course, Pedri, we’ll miss Pedri, but at the end it’s like that. This season like this and we have to accept it”. 11. PLAYERS WARMING UP 12. JOURNALIST FILMING PLAYERS 13. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BARCELONA COACH, HANSI FLICK, SAYING:  “Lamine (Yamal) is good, Lamine is good. I just spoke with him and he is doing good. Of course, he has some days where maybe he feels some pain, but now he really work hard, he improves a lot about these things and, yeah, I think he is in a good evolution, so this is what we can say.” 14. YAMAL RUNNING WARM-UP DRILL 15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BARCELONA COACH, HANSI FLICK, SAYING: “We do it,we speak with him (Lamine Yamal). We are doing like normal, so I think we are very honest together he with me and I with him and this is the best way, and I will always protect him and support him. He is a fantastic player, a fantastic guy, he is very young, ok, and so we will go on this way.” 16. YAMAL AND LEWANDOWSKI TALKING TO OTHER PLAYERS ON THE PITCH 17.(SOUNDBITE) (English) BARCELONA COACH, HANSI FLICK, SAYING:  “I don’t want to look back because it’s not the right position as a coach. You sit here, behind the windows and it was not nice, it was not nice. So, I have to work on me the same like the players have to work so that I can follow every match on the bench, and yeah, this is what I want to do.” 18. YAMAL DRINKING WATER 19. VARIOUS OF RONDO DRILLS 20. YAMAL AND WOJCIECH SZESNEY DURING RONDO 21. RONDO DRILL 22. LEWANDOWSKI DURING RONDO 23. PLAYERS IN PITCH 24. SIGN READING (Catalan): ‘TITO VILANOVA FIELD’ STORY: Barcelona coach Hansi Flick said on Saturday (November 1) he would always protect and support forward Lamine Yamal during a press conference ahead of their LaLiga match against Elche. Flick added that Yamal was 'good' but that he still had some pain from his athletic pubalgia. He also celebrated the return of Robert Lewandowski and Dani Olmo from injuries. After losing the season's first El Clasico last weekend, Barca currently sit third, five points adrift arch-rivals Real Madrid who are top.  (Production: Alba Ferrer, Nina Lopez)

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