Benoît Ntambue Badiashile Mukinayi Baya (born 26 March 2001) is a French professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

for club Chelsea and the France national team.

Early life

Benoît Ntambue Badiashile Mukinayi Baya was born on 26 March 2001 in

Limoges Limoges (, , ; oc, Lemòtges, locally ) is a city and Communes of France, commune, and the prefecture of the Haute-Vienne Departments of France, department in west-central France. It was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region ...

, Haute-Vienne. He is of Congolese descent.

Club career

Monaco

On 5 February 2018, Badiashile signed his first professional contract with

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

. On 11 November, he made his professional debut in a 4–0

Ligue 1 Ligue 1, officially known as Ligue 1 Uber Eats for sponsorship reasons, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs. At the top of the French football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. A ...

loss to Paris Saint-Germain.

Chelsea

On 5 January 2023, Badiashile signed for

Premier League The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Foo ...

club Chelsea on a seven-and-a-half-year contract for a transfer fee reported by ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'' to be £32.7 million (€37 million). On 15 January 2023, Badiashile made his debut for Chelsea, starting against Crystal Palace in the Premier League. The French defender played the entire game and earned his new club a clean sheet as Chelsea won 1–0.

International career

Badiashile is a senior international for France, having been a part of a number of under-16 to under-21 teams since 2016. Badiashile received his first call-up to the France national team for two

UEFA Nations League The UEFA Nations League is a biennial international football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the member associations of UEFA, the sport's European governing body. The first tournament began in September 2018. The ...

matches against

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

and

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ...

in September 2022.

Personal life

Badiashile is the younger brother of

Loïc Badiashile Loïc Badiashile Mukinayi (born 5 February 1998) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Segunda División club Burgos CF, Burgos. He is a former France youth in ...

, who is also a professional footballer.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Individual *

IFFHS The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) is an organisation that chronicles the history and records of association football. It was founded in 1984 by Alfredo Pöge in Leipzig. The IFFHS was based in Abu Dhabi for so ...

Men's Youth (U20) World Team: 2021

References

External links

Profile
at the Chelsea F.C. website * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Badiashile, Benoît 2001 births Living people Sportspeople from Limoges Footballers from Nouvelle-Aquitaine French men's footballers Men's association football defenders Limoges FC players SC Malesherbes players AS Monaco FC players Chelsea F.C. players Championnat National 2 players Ligue 1 players Premier League players France men's youth international footballers France men's under-21 international footballers France men's international footballers French expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in England French expatriate sportspeople in England Black French sportspeople French sportspeople of Democratic Republic of the Congo descent