Benjamin Mendy

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Benjamin Mendy
U-19 EC qualification Austria vs. France 2013-06-10 (057) (cropped) .jpg
Benjamin Mendy (2013)
Personnel
birthday 17th July 1994
place of birth Longjumeau ,  France
size 185 cm
position Left full-back
Juniors
Years station
2000-2007 Palaiseau
2007-2011 AC Le Havre
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010-2013 AC Le Havre B 12 (0)
2011-2013 AC Le Havre 57 (0)
2013-2016 Olympique Marseille 81 (2)
2014 Olympique Marseille B 2 (0)
2016-2017 AS Monaco 39 (1)
2017– Manchester City 36 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2009-2010 France U-16 15 (1)
2010-2011 France U-17 17 (1)
2011–2012 France U18 5 (1)
2012-2013 France U-19 12 (0)
2014-2015 France U-21 9 (0)
2017– France 9 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

2 As of September 9, 2018

Benjamin Mendy (born July 17, 1994 in Longjumeau ) is a French football player with Senegalese roots who is currently under contract with Manchester City and plays for the French national team , with which he became world champion in 2018.

Career

society

Benjamin Mendy started playing football in Palaiseau , where he stayed until 2007. At the age of 13 he went to the French second division club AC Le Havre , where he first went through the youth teams. Soon he was next to Paul Pogba as the greatest talent of the club and already at the age of 16 he came to his first appearance in the second team in October 2010. At the same time he was still active for the U-19. In the summer of 2011 Mendy finally signed his first professional contract and immediately became a regular player. On August 12, 2011, at the age of 17, he made his Ligue 2 debut . With the club he reached 15th place at the end of the season . Le Havres was also the first choice as left-back in the 2012/13 season .

In the summer break of 2013 he was finally signed by the first division club Olympique Marseille . According to media reports, Mendy cost a transfer fee of around four million euros. On August 11, 2013 he made his competitive debut for Marseille in Ligue 1 . On the seventh day of the season he also scored the first goal of his professional career. A week later, Mendy was in a Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund for the first time in an international club game .

For the 2016/17 season , Mendy moved to AS Monaco , where he received a five-year contract dated June 30, 2021.

For the 2017/18 season , Mendy moved to Manchester City and signed a contract until 2022. The rumored transfer fee of just under 58 million euros made him the most expensive defender in football history at the time.

National team

Benjamin Mendy has already played in various national youth teams in his country. With France he took part in the 2011 U-17 World Cup and reached the quarter-finals.

On March 16, 2017, coach Didier Deschamps appointed him to the French senior team for the first time. He played his first international match against Luxembourg on March 25, 2017 as part of the World Cup qualification. In 2018 he became world champion.

successes

Mendy with the World Cup trophy (left Ousmane Dembélé , right Kylian Mbappé )

Manchester City

AS Monaco

National team

Web links

Commons : Benjamin Mendy  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Accord with Benjamin Mendy. OM.net, July 9, 2013, accessed July 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Talent Mendy to Marseille. transfermarkt.de, July 9, 2013, accessed on July 9, 2013 .
  3. ^ AS Monaco: Benjamin Mendy signs on a five-year contract , June 22, 2016, accessed on June 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ CITY SIGN BENJAMIN MENDY. mancity.com, July 24, 2017, accessed July 24, 2017 .
  5. ↑ ManCity makes Mendy the most expensive defender: "Main target on the position". Retrieved July 24, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Didier Deschamps appelle la pépite Mbappe contre le Luxembourg et l'Espagne . ( lavenir.net [accessed March 19, 2017]).
  7. ↑ transfermarkt.de: Benjamin Mendy (national team). Retrieved September 16, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mendy, Benjamin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 17th July 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Longjumeau