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Édouard Mendy
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Senegal · 2014–25

Édouard Mendy

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Rating
86
Caps
57
Goals
0
Life
1992
Clubs
Stade de Reims, Chelsea, Al Ahli
#4
Editorial rank of 33 for Senegal
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He was twenty-two in 2014, out of the game after leaving Cherbourg, drawing unemployment benefit in France and looking for work outside football. By 2022 he was an African champion and a European one, with Senegal's Africa Cup of Nations and Chelsea's 2021 Champions League as the first African goalkeeper to lift it, and he added the AFC Champions League Elite with Al-Ahli in 2025 and FIFA's goalkeeper of the year for 2021. Career record: 57 caps and 0 goals for Senegal; club career at Stade de Reims, Chelsea, Al Ahli.

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Career record

2011–2014AS Cherbourg Football
2016–2019Stade de Reims
2019–2020Stade Rennais
2020–2023Chelsea
2023–todayAl Ahli
Senegal57 caps, 0 goals

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Around Mendy in the almanac

One rank above: El Hadji Diouf at #3.

One rank below: Idrissa Gana Gueye at #5.

Senegal's editorial top five: Sadio Mané · Kalidou Koulibaly · El Hadji Diouf · Édouard Mendy · Idrissa Gana Gueye.