New Delhi, July 15 -- BARCELONA - While Lamine Yamal was 8,800 kilometres away in Arlington, Texas, helping Spain eliminate France from the 2026 World Cup, two hooded figures were scaling the perimeter wall of his Barcelona mansion. Security cameras caught them on Tuesday night. They made it to the wall, saw the cameras, and ran.

The attempted break-in at Yamal's home in Esplugues de Llobregat, a municipality bordering Barcelona's southern edge, unfolded in the early hours of Wednesday, in the same hours Spain's squad were celebrating a 2-0 semifinal victory that confirmed their place in Sunday's final at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. Private security guards spotted the intruders on closed-circuit monitors and moved toward the property ...