TEENAGE football sensation Lamine Yamal made his relationship with Alex Padilla public when they posed for pictures together after the Euro 2024 final.
Here’s all we know about the TikTok star who has won the Spain international’s heart.
Lamine Yamal has revealed he is dating TikTok star Alex Padilla.
She’s got over three quarters of a million followers on the social network site.
Alex was spotted after Spain’s historic 2-1 win over England in the Euro 2024 final, when the pair cosied up together.
Lamine posed for photos with the TikTok star as he celebrated with his Young Player of the Tournament award.
Alex reportedly attended a number of Spain’s games. during the tournament, fuelling rumours the pair were dating.
Alex is a student and lives in Barcelona.
She’s also an influencer, with a large number of followers on different sites.
Her TikTok follower count more than doubled from around 300,000 before to over 750,000 after the Euro 2024 tournament ended.
She had an impressive 20,000 followers on Instagram, but deactivated her account after speculation about the couple’s relationship increased.
It wasn’t until the final of the Euro 2024 tournament that the couple went public – however fans had their suspicions before that.
Alex is one of only two people Lamine follows on TikTok.
She’s also been spotted in the crowd alongside his family during Spain’s matches.
Lamine‘s dad Mounir Nasraoui, was also seen celebrating after the victory over England.
Spain’s Euros triumph marks Lamine’s second major honour after winning the LaLiga title with Barcelona in 2023.
The star, who turned 17 a day before the Euros final, has played 51 games for the Barça first team, scoring seven goals and providing 10 assists.
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Spain’s incredible 16-year-old bent home the goal of the tournament so far against France as La Roja sealed the spot in the final.
But his first five years in Barcelona’s academy were spent playing seven-a-side football, up until the age of 12 in 2020 when he finally got a crack at 11-a-side games.
Yamal’s story is baffling, brilliant and barely believable in equal measure.
He is a boy born to a Moroccan father and a mother from Equatorial Guinea, who turned 17 the day before the Euros final, and was cradled by footballing royalty at just six months old.
Staggering pictures of Yamal as a baby being held and bathed by Messi, taken for a Barcelona charity calendar 16 years ago, resurfaced this week.
He did not restrict his brushes with greatness to Barcelona either, with footage of Yamal as an academy player walking as a mascot with Spain and Real Madrid icon Sergio Ramos at an El Clasico in 2016.
There is a touch of fate about this gem, Spain’s “little MVP”, as team-mate Nico Williams has dubbed him.
Yamal has been doing homework in his spare time and received exam results during the tournament. He passed, obviously.
Now he’s the youngest ever goalscorer at the Euros, also becoming the youngest player to ever start a major semi-final – claiming that title from Pele.
But it’s Yamal’s humble approach on and off the pitch that most impresses everyone he meets.
And France star Adrien Rabiot probably felt quite embarrassed as he boarded his plane back home from Germany.
He had tried to intimidate Yamal ahead of their semi-final clash – telling Yamal he “needs to do more.”
Was this good enough, then? Yamal responded with a goal for the ages and a man of the match performance.
A season which started with a pre-season game against Tottenham where Yamal excelled but was overshadowed by Oliver Skipp scoring a brace will end on the biggest stage European football has to offer on Sunday.
From being outshone by Skipp to eclipsing Pele’s records is not a bad year’s work – just imagine what he will do when he grows up.
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