Lamine Yamal's heartfelt words about his mother (Getty Images)Why does Lamine Yamal say he has nothing to blame his mother for despite a difficult childhood? What did Lamine Yamal say about his football style and his unexpected rise at Barcelona? His mother, Sheila Ebana, had him at 16, raised him in a flat where the bedroom and kitchen shared the same walls, and worked restaurant shifts to buy him a PlayStation she could barely afford. She became a mother at 16 while still figuring out life in a country that was not her own. But Yamal acknowledges it every time someone puts a microphone near him.Before La Masia, Lamine Yamal played his first football at La Torreta, a local club near Rocafonda.