Lamine Yamal enjoyed an amazing 2024 in which he stamped his reputation as the next big thing in football. He played a key role in helping Spain win Euro 2024, won the Golden Boy award and also help Barcelona have a positive start to the Hansi Flick era by topping the La Liga table at the start of the 2024/25 season.
All this popularity is making more people notice him and it seems like the 17-year-old has something special in his love life as well. The Barcelona teenager was recently pictured with Italian TikToker and model Anna Gegnoso in a shopping trip in Spain. This comes after she was reportedly in attendance to watch him action in Barcelona’s recent loss to Las Palmas.
Yamal was in a relationship with Spanish TikToker Anna Padilla earlier this year. But the two quickly broke things off after she was seen ‘cheating on him’ by sitting on another boy’s lap in a video that went viral. The Spanish winger kept his love life private for many months after that, but now seems to be smitten by Gegnoso.
Gegnoso is two years older than Yamal and has been gaining popularity as a model and influencer in Italy. The 17-year-old influencer is from Naples and has garnered quite a lot of popularity on social media, having over 600,000 followers on Instagram and over 800,000 followers on TikTok as well.
She works as a model for different brands and often links up with Italian photographers for showing off the latest fashionable wear for women. On Tiktok, Gegnoso posts clips of a lifestyle content creator, showing off how her days go or herself travelling around.
The 17-year-old is a Napoli fan, having been born and brought up in the city, and even uploaded a picture of herself wearing a Khvicha Kvaratskhelia jersey on her Instagram.
Gegnoso might be focused on building on her reputation as an influencer, but also seems focused on her studies. She appears to be pursuing her graduation degree at the University of Naples ‘L’Oriente’ and is focused on at least completing her education to have something to fall back on apart from just working as a model.
The 19-year-old influencer is also close to popular Italian model Fabiola Baglieri, who has over 13 million subscribers on her TikTok. Gegnoso and Baglieri recently flew down from Italy to Barcelona to watch Yamal in action, after which she was able to spend some quality time with the Barcelona winger too.
Gegnoso reportedly has a passion for travelling around and is bilingual after attending a linguistic high school. The 19-year-old is also a hard worker who has focused on gaining independence early on, as she even worked as a hostess in medical conferences and as a babysitter to make an earning before blossoming as a model/influencer.
She was even entangled in some social media controversy earlier this year, when Gegnoso claimed that she was the victim of catfishing. Gegnoso claimed that a catfish account Noelia Garcia Fuentes was using her pictures on their profile to gain more followers, before the 19-year-old learnt about this and shut it down.
The Italian model now seems to be ready to take a step forward in her love life by mingling with an ambitious footballer in Yamal. The two are trying to keep their relationship a secret, but Gegnoso can probably expect a huge surge in popularity as she’s already been spotted alongside him before they even made anything official.
