Inés García said How old is Yamal was never the real question in their story: she said she met Lamine Yamal on social media and that their relationship had already been developing for much longer than people think. She made the point while traveling to Los Angeles before Spain’s next match, adding a rare public timeline to a relationship that became public at the end of last May.
“I think I’ve never talked about my boyfriend in public,” García said, then added, “We met on social media and that’s it.” She also said, “We’ve been together much longer than people think, much longer.” For readers tracking the relationship, that narrows the gap between first contact and public visibility.
García’s timeline
García said, “I’m not going to give too many details, it wasn’t very quick; in fact, it was quite slow, but we gave things time, of course, getting to know each other little by little.” She said they spent a long time talking before seeing each other, which puts the emphasis on an online start rather than a fast public pairing.
The detail is useful because the public first noticed them together only later, when people saw her with him in Greece or a few weeks before that. That sequence clashes with the idea that the relationship started close to the moment it became visible, and it explains why the public timeline has been so compressed.
Los Angeles before Spain
García said she was supporting Yamal at the World Cup and that they were traveling to Los Angeles before Spain’s next match. That places her explanation in the middle of an active travel schedule, not in a staged sit-down, and it reads like a deliberate correction while the attention around them is still building.
For a couple that became public at the end of last May, the useful takeaway is simple: the visible moment came later than the relationship itself. García has now said enough to show that the first public sighting did not mark the beginning, and that is the part readers should keep in mind when the next round of speculation starts.
