Things You Didn't Know About Lamine Yamal 🤯
Is Yamal really 20 years old? Why is he holding a baby? Did you know that the Barça star's full name consists of 4 words and Lamine could have had the names Nasraoui and Ebana on his back? And why do many people say that Lamine wanted to play for Real Madrid?
Wait, wait, wait!
Have you asked yourself whether you know everything about one of the main stars of Barcelona and the national team of Spain? What we've just mentioned is only a part of the things you might not have known about the new star of the Blaugrana squad. Therefore, let's settle some questions once and for all.
Where did the rumours of Lamine being 20 years old come from? On March 12 of this year, a HUGE SCANDAL broke out on Twitter: a lot of football fans - mostly Real Madrid fans, of course, started tweeting a newspaper clipping that claimed Yamal's age to be 10 years old. Then the "conspiracy theories" and math got involved - the photo shows Lamine in a Barça jersey from the 2015/16 season, which led observant and suspicious users to make the following arguments:
'If he was 10 years old in the 2015/16 season, then 8 years later, in 2023/24, he should be 18 years old. Next July he will be 19 years old.
However, these guys immediately got a "cold welcome" on Twitter from Barcelona fans, who quickly laughed off suspicions about Lamine's real age:
'Let's take an article from 2017 with no date on it and say that Lamine Yamal born in Spain is more than 16 years old?’
Indeed, after some thorough fact-checking, the whole ‘controversial case’ of Lamine Yamal immediately started to crumble... Turns out that the clipping was taken from an article from 2017 - at that time the boy was actually 10 years old, well, because he was born in 2007.
Moreover, the haters of Lamine Yamal and Barcelona nagged about this video, where the title says '16-year-old Lamine Yamal', while its release is dated March 21, 2021 - following this logic, the Barça star is supposed to be 18 years old in the 2023/24 season. That said, here we are dealing with the fact that the author of the Reykob 7.0 channel simply changed the title in order to catch up with the latest search results after Yamal's debut for the Barcelona first team - that's right, the desire to make some money from additional traffic threw suspicion on the young man... Even in the video itself, there is a clear statement by Reykob: [Trece Anos] - which means 13 years old in Spanish. So, the topic seems to be completely dropped from the discussion...
Let's ask the player himself how old he is! That was the idea of journalists and bloggers who simply couldn't help but ask this question while meeting the Barça and Furia Roja star:
During one of the many interviews Lamine gave this month, he answered the following: "I am 16. Or not. I am 30!" and... laughed.
The whole thing with Lamine Yamal's allegedly fake documents has gone so far, you should be prepared for jokes like this one posted online:
'Lamine Yamal (35 y.o.) with his son. So cute!'
As you can understand, for some reason, the 16-year-old doesn't have a child yet :) and he is apparently holding one of the members of his big family - in this particular photo, a child's face is covered with a heart, and in this photo, the kid on the far right is held by one of Lamine Yamal's uncles. By the way, we also found this kid on Yamal's Tik-Tok page! Do you know how many cousins Lamine has? 80!!! An incredibly extensive family!
And how about this? "Yamal and Luka Modric - an unknown photo from the past". Press the like button if you had a good laugh!
Laughter is good, of course, but let's close this topic once and for all and proceed to the next one.
Now we're going to discuss Lamine Yamal's real name and why he is called that way... Lamine Yamal - have you ever thought about it? Yup, that's right, we are actually saying it WRONG! Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana is the correct name. So what do the other two words mean? Let's memorize: Nasraoui is the father's surname, Ebana is the mother's surname. And where did the name Yamal come from? You see, this is the second part of a compound name - a common occurrence in Spain, where you can often meet a guy named Juan Pablo or Jose Antonio. But in this case, Lamine Yamal sounds original, doesn't it?
Moving on. You've probably seen a video somewhere on the Internet where there's a girl in an Atletico Madrid shirt dancing with Lamine Yamal sitting behind her. WHAT WAS THAT? Some channels started to hype it up and claimed that it was... YAMAL'S GIRLFRIEND! Although, in a recent interview, Lamine told us what was actually going on there:
“Recently a TikTok went viral of a girl who recorded a video. I was in the background and I didn't realise it. People thought I was in class, but I wasn't, it was an event at a children's home. The girl recorded without me noticing”.