Lamine Yamal has been living in that kind of fame since he was a teenager dribbling past grown men in La Liga. In the middle of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, people are still typing in the same question, but it’s not always about his left foot. It’s about his relationship. That’s right, Lamine Yamal does have a girlfriend. Inés García is a fashion and beauty influencer from Seville who is 21 years old. She has been seen in the stands wearing his jersey with pride.
People in the celebrity world might as well have been living in the present day when the couple went public in May 2026. Yamil brought García with him to FC Barcelona’s end-of-season dinner to celebrate winning La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Supercopa de España. There is a picture of the two of them together on Barcelona’s Instagram account, which is pretty official in the football world. In the same week, videos of them at a Bad Bunny concert in Barcelona’s VIP area showed what seemed to be two people who were no longer trying to hide anything.
García has been on social media before. She has over 300,000 followers on Instagram and close to a million on TikTok. On Instagram, she posts fashion posts, beauty tips, and photos from her travels. She went to the Cosmopolitan España influencer awards at the end of 2025 and has worked with lifestyle brands. A small fact she’s made public: she’s terrified of flying, which makes her presence at the World Cup even cuter. In a talk with Woman Madame Figaro, she said that the fear is real but that she is working through it. “I love to travel, but I’m scared of flying,” she said, adding that the two don’t really go together. In spite of this, she was in Atlanta, Georgia, for Spain’s first game wearing Yamal’s number on her back.
Ten minutes into the game against Saudi Arabia, Yamal scored his first World Cup goal. García wrote on her Instagram Stories that he was the best player in the world. The goal was important to Yamal because it was for his mother, his girlfriend, his friends, and everyone back in Mataró. It was the kind of moment that felt truly sweet, without any of the noise that usually surrounds relationships between young athletes.
But Yamal hasn’t always had such a clean love story. Before García, there were tabloid stories that didn’t paint a very positive picture. More importantly, a 30-year-old woman named Fati Vázquez talked about dating Yamal when he was only 17. In interviews, she talked about private trips and stays at hotels. She also said that his agent planned dates with different women on a regular basis. Online, people were very angry about the news. Many pointed out the big age difference and asked questions about the adults around Yamal. People on Reddit were very blunt: they called it gross and disturbing and asked where the parents were. He was also said to be connected to the Argentine singer Nicki Nicole, but the details of that connection were still unclear, and it didn’t last long.
What’s going on now feels very different from that chapter. Yamal and García are only three years apart in age, so their relationship seems to have grown more naturally. “Completely by accident,” García told HOLA, she met Yamal. This is the kind of origin story that doesn’t need to be made up. There’s no private island, no DMs that got out, and no awkward age differences. Just two young people who go to dinner and football games together.
It’s interesting to think about how closely someone like Yamal is watched at age 18. At that age, most people are in college or getting their first real job. There’s the World Cup, the club season where he won the treble, his recovery from a hamstring injury, and his very public relationship. Millions of people have an opinion on every part of it. No one is sure if this relationship with Inés García will last through the tournament and beyond. For now, though, the answer is clear: yes, Lamine Yamal does have a girlfriend, and she flew across the ocean to watch him play, even though she hates planes. That’s worth something.
