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Lamine Yamal Nasraoui Ebana was born on 13 July 2007 in Esplugues de Llobregat, in the Barcelona metropolitan area in Catalonia, to waitress Sheila Ebana and building painter Mounir Nasraoui. Yamal's mother was born in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, and his father is from Larache, Morocco. They gave him a compound given name to honour two people, named Lamine and Yamal, who helped them financially shortly before their son was born. Yamal is a Muslim. His parents separated when he was three, although both remained present through his childhood. The family had lived in Mataró, but around the time of his parents' separation, Yamal's mother moved to Granollers, where Yamal started playing football at the local club La Torreta at the age of four. He would alternate between both cities to spend time with his parents. With his father in Mataró, Yamal grew up in Rocafonda, a neighbourhood described by El País as "forgotten, isolated and stigmatized"; he celebrates goals by making a gesture of the number 304, the last digits of the local postcode 08304. Following his success, his popularisation of the number has been credited with bringing pride and recognition to the working class community of Rocafonda. At six years of age, Yamal was scouted by Barcelona and was invited to training sessions at La Masia, signing for the club in 2014 moving to Barcelona to live and train at the academy. Growing up, Yamal's footballing idols were Ronaldinho, Lionel Messi, and Neymar. In July 2025, Spain's Ministry of Social Rights asked the country's prosecutor's office to investigate Yamal, after it was alleged that he had hired several people with dwarfism to perform at his 18th birthday party. Yamal was briefly in a relationship with Nicki Nicole, an Argentinian singer, though the two separated in October 2025. Family Yamal has a younger half-brother named Keyne (born 2022) and a younger half-sister named Baraa. On 14 August 2024, Yamal's father was stabbed in a car park in Mataró; his injuries were minor, and he was discharged from hospital three days later. Police arrested four people involved in the attack.