Mendy, the goalkeeper who will play the Final after a representative deception

With 29 years of age, Édouard Mendy, of Senegalese and French nationality, is the figure del Chelsea that tomorrow he will face the Manchester City on the Champions League final. Today, everything seems to be glory for the goalkeeper, but he lived a complicated path in which he was a victim of deception by a representative and that led him to sell clothes to be able to sustain himself in the year that he was without equipment.

“An agent dumped me. I had full confidence in him and he dumped me. He told me that he was going to sign for an England team, but that he had to be patient. The summer passed, I called him and he did not answer me“, he said in an interview for Marca.

The Chelsea goalkeeper was key in the Champions League Semifinal Round against Real Madrid with his two stops to Benzema in the first half. In September 2020 he stole the newspapers after the Premier League team announced his signing for 25 million euros.

With little time in the team, Mendy took over the ownership and left the experienced Kepa Arrizabalaga On the bench. Six years before his arrival in the blue box, the goalkeeper had to train on his own after his representative at the time left him stranded.

“He trained alone, waiting for an opportunity. That experience helped me to see things differently, “he said. According to French media, at that time, the doorman received a call from a friend, who suggested that if he wanted to take care of your clothing store in the city where he started playing football, Le Havre.

A) Yes, Mendy stayed for a year and then moved to the reserves of Marseille, for 2017 the offer from Reims arrived and a campaign later he jumped to Ligue 1 with that team, for 19-20 he joined Rennais and from there to the Premier League.

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