It wasn’t even ten minutes into the game when Lamine Yamal scored his first World Cup goal against Saudi Arabia. He already knew who he was going to give it to. “My mother, my girlfriend, to my friends and everyone back at home in Mataró,” he said afterwards. That girlfriend is Inés García, a fashion and beauty influencer from Seville who is 21 years old. In the last few months, she has quietly become one of the more well-known faces in the stands at Spain’s games.
It wasn’t Yamal who brought García to the public’s attention. Before her relationship with the Barcelona winger became public, she already had a following—nearly a million on TikTok and over 600,000 on Instagram. Her posts are mostly what you’d expect from a fashion-focused blogger: outfit photos, beauty tips, and selfies staged in a way that looks easy but takes more work than it does. In November 2025, she went to the Cosmopolitan España influencer awards. The next May, she was at the VI Premios Woman Sport ceremony in Barcelona. Before the cameras at a World Cup stadium turned on her, she was working on her own project.
They told everyone about their relationship at FC Barcelona’s end-of-season dinner in May 2026. This was soon after the club won a remarkable treble: La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Supercopa de España all in the same season. Yamal brought García with him as a date, and the club’s Instagram account shared a picture of the two of them. That was pretty much the hard launch. In the same week, video of them in the VIP area of a Bad Bunny concert in Barcelona went around the internet. Things moved quickly after that.
How did they meet? García has been honest and refreshingly non-emotional about it. She told Hola! that she would have loved to tell a more dramatic story, like a chance meeting at the airport, papers being dropped, or someone lending a hand, but the truth is simpler. She smiled and said, “We met on social media.” As she said it so simply, there’s something almost charming about how modern the romance is.
A fact about García that she almost forgot to mention stands out, even though she is becoming more well-known. That’s something she’s afraid of. Not just a little worry; a real fear. Still, she took a plane to Atlanta to watch Spain play in their first group match. She then flew back to Spain and then back to the US to keep following Yamal through the tournament. She told Woman Madame Figaro, “I love to travel, but I’m scared of flying.” “The two things don’t really go together, but I’m facing my fears little by little.” Something seems to be telling about that. She’s not just showing up; she’s showing up even though something really scares her.
Yamal, on the other hand, looks very happy to have her there. Before Spain’s Round of 16 match against Portugal, García posted some beach photos from Los Angeles. Yamal wrote the first comment on her post, which was “bombón.” This is Spanish slang that roughly means “cutie,” and it was the kind of quiet public affection that says more than a formal statement. He’s 18 years old and she’s 21. From the outside, they look like two young people who are really enjoying being with each other on a pretty cool stage.
Before she was linked to García, Yamal was linked to Argentinian pop star Nicki Nicole, which got a lot of attention from the media. That relationship ended a while ago, and most people say Yamal moved on without a lot of fuss. When García came into his life, it was near the end of a busy season. By May, she was in an official Barcelona photo.
It’s not clear if García will keep building her own platform without Yamal’s fame, but she seems to be well on her way. Before Spain’s World Cup run, she was getting brand attention and event invites. The tournament has only increased the attention. People might know her name for reasons that have nothing to do with her in a year.
