Table of Biography
Edouard Mendy is a Senegalese goalkeeper who plays for Chelsea in the Premier League and the Senegal national team. In 2020, Edouard Mendy joined the Chelsea Football Club. With Chelsea, he won the UEFA Champions League in 2020-21. He was named the UEFA Champions League Season’s Best Goalkeeper.
Early life
Édouard Osoque Mendy best known as Édouard Mendy was born on 1st March, 1992, in Montivilliers, France. As of now, he is 32 years old and he holds the nationality of Senegalese/French.
Moreover, he belongs to the African ethnicity and he is a Christian by religion. He was born to a Guinea-Bissauan father and a Senegalese mother. Aside from them, there is no more information regarding her parents and siblings.
Talking about his academic qualifications, he completed his high school education and completed his graduation with a Bachelor’s degree from US State University.
Awards
Edouard Mendy has received some recognition and honors in his career. Additionally, he received the award of Goalkeeper of the Season in the UEFA Champions League.
Moreover, he was also named to the UFEA Champions League Season Squad. In 2021, he was named Ghana Football Awards Best African International and France Football CAF Men Team of the Year.
Caption: Edouard posing with FIFA Club World Cup after his team Chelsea F.C. won the trophy (Source: Instagram)
Net Worth 2024
As a professional football player, Edouard Mendy has earned a huge sum of money in his career. Moreover, he has an estimated net worth of $40 million from his football career.
Professional career
Edouard Mendy began playing for junior clubs at an early age. He enrolled at Le Havre’s youth academy when he was 13 years old. From 2006 to 2011, he played for CS Municipaux Le Havre.
In 2011, he joined Cherbourg and began his professional football career. In 2014, the club released him and he became clubless.
For a year he became clubless and he was having second thoughts about his future. At the age of 22, he applied for unemployment and began looking for jobs.
In 2015, he was signed by Marseille as a fourth-choice goalkeeper, which changed his fortunes. Moreover, he spent the 2015-16 season with the club’s reserves as a backup goalkeeper.
Caption: Edouard playing as goalkeeper for Chelsea F.C (Source: Instagram)
In 2016, he joined League 2 club, Reims. There, he quickly established himself as the starting goalkeeper for the club.
After maintaining 18 clean sheets in 34 games, he led the club to the 2017-18 Ligue 2 title and promotion to Ligue 1. He joined Rennes in 2019 after an amazing season with Reims where he signed with the club for an unknown fee.
For the club, he played for only one season and he helped the club finish third in the league, Moreover, the club qualified for the UEFA Champions League. Recently, in September 20202, he joined the English club Chelsea with a five-year contract for 22 million pounds.
In addition, he set multiple records by keeping consecutive clean sheets. He played a major role in Chelsea winning the UEFA Champions League 2020-21 by defeating Manchester City in the final.
International career
At the international level, he could have represented Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, or France. Furthermore, he played Guinea-Bissau in friendly matches against Portuguese teams Belenenses and Estoril.
In 2019, he represented Senegal in the Africa Cup of Nations. Moreover, Senegal completed as runner-up where he was withdrawn from the team after being injured before Senegal’s final group stage match.
Relationship Status
Edouard Mendy is a married man but, he has not shared his wife and his kids in public yet. Moreover, the goalkeeper likes to keep his family life quite secret.
Talking about his controversy and rumors, Edouard Mendy is not a part of them yet.
Edouard Mendy – Body measurement
Édouard is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs around 68 kg. Moreover, he has short black hair and black eyes in color. Apart from that, there is no more information regarding his other body measurements.
Caption: Edouard body measurement (Source: Instagram)
Edouard Mendy – Social media
Edouard is quite active on social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. On his Facebook, there are more than 3 million followers, and on Instagram, there are more than 2 million followers. Likewise, there are more than 2k followers on Twitter.