Lamine Yamal's real name revealed by his father as he makes key correction

Lamine Yamal's father has made a correction about the Barcelona star's real name as he revealed everyone has been saying it wrong.

The 19-year-old has quickly developed into one of the best players in the world and finished third in the recent Ballon d'Or voting which saw Harry Kane take the prize in London.

The Barcelona sensation, who has already won La Liga with his club and both the Euros and World Cup with Spain, is now a household name in the world.

Lamine Yamal name error corrected by Barcelona star's father

However, it turns out that there has been some major confusion surrounding his name that has now been clarified by his father.

In a live broadcast, Mounir Nasraoui revealed that Lamine Yamal is his son's first name and his surname is, in fact, Nasraoui Ebana.

"I'm going to tell you something, guys,” he said.

His name is Lamine Yamal, but Yamal is not his surname. His surname is Nasraoui Ebana. I want everyone to understand that.

"Lamine Yamal is his name. That's why his father tells him, 'Lamine Yamal, through the good times and the bad, my boy.'

"And remember one thing: you will never be at the top as long as Lamine Yamal is on the pitch.”

The player himself doesn't seem to have too much of an issue himself as back when he was 16, he told Mundo Deportivo that he was happy for his name to be shortened.

“My name is Lamine Yamal, but if you want to shorten it, then Lamine,” he commented.

'Lamine Yamal', essentially a compound name, is on the back of his shirt for Barcelona and Spain and serves as integral to his brand.

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But while his surname has been easily forgotten by many, Yamal is still proud of his family heritage.

Although he is born and bred in Barcelona and has represented Spain at every youth level, Yamal has affiliation with African nations Equatorial Guinea and Morocco.

His mother was born in Equatorial Guinea, on the west coast of central Africa, and his father is from North African country Morocco. He has the flags of both Equatorial Guinea and Morocco on his boots - stating that he will "always have affection".

Because he was eligible to play for them, Morocco even tried to convince Yamal to pledge international allegiance.

His grandmother on his father's side, Fatima Nasraoui, immigrated to Spain by herself in the 1990s.

She came on a bus for a better future, and later his father and aunty joined Fatima.

“The first to arrive, on my father’s side, was my grandmother, who came alone on a bus from Morocco," speaking Fundación José Ramón de la Morena podcast

She sneaked onto the bus, stopped in Algeciras and Granada, and eventually made it to Mataró. "She started working morning, afternoon, and night shifts to save enough to bring my father, who had stayed behind in Morocco with his sister.

"Once she had saved enough money, she paid a woman to bring them to Spain."

When Yamal made it in the big-time after a humble upbringing, he bought her a house in the working class Rocafonda neighbourhood he grew up in.

His '304' celebration is a tribute to the area he used to live in, never forgetting where he came from.