Besides playing the left-back position for Premier League club Manchester City, French professional footballer Benjamin Mendy also plays the same position for the France national team.

Before moving to the Premier League in 2017 with a world record transfer fee, Mendy spent four seasons in the French professional league, Ligue 1, where he won a domestic championship with Monaco.

At the international level, Benjamin has represented France in several international competitions and tournaments. He played for the country in the Under-16 and Under-17 teams. Mendy was part of the squad that led France to the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup where the team reached the quarter-finals. He is also part of the senior squad playing for the nation in the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

Brief biography

There really isn’t much about Benjamin Mendybio online except that he was born on July 17, 1994 in Longjumeau, France. He attended Le Havre, the same football academy his team-mate Paul Pogba attended and signed his first professional contract with the Ligue 2 club in 2011.

Benjamin Mendy Family, parents

Also, there is not much information about the player’s family background other than the name of his mother, Monique Mendy. There is also no information about his father and whether he has a brother or not.

Career League

Benjamin Mendy’s first appearance as a professional footballer was in August 2011 in a match against Amiens which ended in a 2-1 loss. He appeared with Ligue 2 club Le Havre, having signed a three-year contract with the club the month before.

In July 2013, he signed a contract with Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille and made his debut for the team in August in a match against Guingamp. In a game against Saint-Étienne the following month, Mendy scored his first goal for the team.

His European debut came the following month at Borussia Dortmund. Unfortunately Marseille lost all of their group stage matches and subsequently fell out of the competition and the then manager was sacked and replaced by José Anigo who only used Mendy towards the end of the season in which it was featured a few times.

At the start of the next season, Benjamin Mendy was featured in the game against Lille, his performance was criticized by former Marseille left-back Éric Di Meco who said he would “eat a rat” if Mendy joined the club. French national team. Interestingly, after this season, Mendy was on the list of 40 men considered for the 2014 Golden Boy award.

The following season he improved his game under coach Marcelo Bielsa. He made 33 league starts in the 2014-15 campaign, with 6 assists as Marseille qualified for the Europa League. In September 2015, he received a red card after committing a professional foul on Jean-Daniel Akpa-Akpro, which resulted in a two-match ban. He would later miss 13 games after sustaining a hamstring injury in the game against Caen on 3 January 2016.

After making 101 competitive appearances and had 14 assists to his name, he left Olympique de Marseille for rivals Monaco on June 22, 2016 on a five-year deal. Benjamin Mendy featured in the team’s 2016–17 Ligue 1 league season. Along with five of its members, it won the 2017 UNFP Team of the Year.

After that season, Mendy moved to English league club Manchester City with whom he signed a five-year deal worth £52million. This transfer fee broke the previous fee record paid on another City player, Kyle Walker. In a game against Crystal Palace in September, Mendy suffered a knee injury which kept him out of games until April 2018 when he came on as a 75th-minute substitute for Fabian Delph. in a game against Swansea City.

His appearance in this game gave him the minimum of 5 league games needed to receive a winner’s medal.

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International career

Mendy has also played for his home country France. He started as a young French international representing France at Under-16 and Under-17 levels. In fact, he was part of the U17 squad that represented the country at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup where the team qualified for the quarter-finals.

He was called up to join the senior team for the first time in 2017. He made his debut for the team in March of the same year in a match against Luxembourg in a Cup qualifier. 2018 FIFA World Cup which ended in a 3-1 away win. Benjamin Mendy is also part of the national team representing France at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.

His height and weight

The professional football player stands at a height of 6 feet which is 1.83 meters, weighing 85 kg (187 lbs). His other body stats are not known.