While many UEFA Champions League celebrities have millions, they get uppity and treat their fans with contempt. There are also people with a huge heart, like N’Golo Kanté. And what he has done has captivated the whole world.
Players like Zlatan, Ibrahimovic, Neymar and Messi always show off with cars of major brands that cost a fortune. Another example is Christiano Ronaldo, who owns a private jet valued at $25 million. The millions these players earn annually allow them to indulge in such luxuries. Like many others who share them on their social media.
However, N’Golo Kanté is a different footballer. Despite earning €325 thousand a week at Chelsea, he keeps his Mini Cooper since 2015. A car that has even had several repairs. “I was never that kind of person who loves big cars. When I was young, I never had the ambition to own one. I drive a Mini, it was the car I bought when I was in Leicester City, my first car in England. Someone told me about this brand, I tried it, I liked it and I bought it.”
It is normal that first world footballers, who live a reality full of luxuries, do not have time for ordinary citizens, to whom they owe all their success. But N’Golo Kante broke this concept when he surprised a Chelsea fan by attending his daughter’s wedding. In a video that went viral, Kanté is seen greeting the guests and waiting his turn to congratulate the bride and groom. He then took several pictures with everyone present.
In 2018, the footballer had planned to take the Eurostar train to Paris but missed it. Then he went to a nearby mosque and there some young men approached him and asked him for a picture, one of them even invited him to dinner at his house. Surprisingly, Kanté accepted. At his new friends’ house, he had dinner, watched TV with them and ended his evening playing several matches of the popular soccer video game FIFA with the owner of the house.
From picking up trash in the streets as a child and being rejected by several clubs because of his height, N’Golo Kanté has not only become a giant on the field but also off the field thanks to his powerful humility, which is a reflection of the greatness of his heart and the richness of his feelings. Nowadays the Chelsea player is one of the most loved and admired footballers in the world.
Tell us if your favourite player shares similar qualities to Kanté. Do you think every soccer player in the world should be like him?
