Keita Balde Net Worth, Biography, Personal Life, Career, and Awards
Keita Balde is the Spanish born Senegalese professional soccer player who currently plays for club Monaco besides his regular participation for his national football team of Senegal. Since, 2016, he is featuring national football team of Senegal in international games and has been earned 17 caps so far. Some of his teammates include Kalidou Koulibaly, Badou Ndiaye, and Abdoulaye Diallo.
Kaita is well skilled for his talent as a winger. At present, he is assigned to a jersey number 14 in the field and is considered as one of the secure and active players from Senegal.
Let’s find out more about Kaite’s personal life, career, net worth and more
Keita Balde Early Life, Personal Life, and Nationality
Keita Balde was to Senegalese parents on March 8, 1995, and is the native of Arbucies, Spain. He carries the mixture of both Senegalese and Spanish nationality with African ethnic background.
Speaking about his personal life, Keita is not the married but currently, he is dating Simona Guatierian Italian model. Both the couple is seen enjoying their holiday’s inexpensive destination and usually posts numerous picture on their official Instagram.
Currently, 23, Keita Balde stands at the good height that is 5 feet 1 inch tall which is 1.83m long. His balance weight is 77 kg.
Keita Balde Career and Achievements
Keita Balde is one of the sensational names in the football world. He has an enormous fan base around the globe.
Balde early career
From his early age, he has shown great interest towards football. His football Journey started joining the youth academy through Damm. Later, in 2004, he moved to Barcelona and enjoyed seven successive seasons with the team. Furthermore, Kaita also played for Cornella as a part of a loan from Barcelona.
Keita Balde Professional Career
Keita later made his way to Italian club Lazio on July 1st, 2011 with the transfer fee of $352,044. He didn’t make any official appearance for a year with the club because he should first be confirmed to be a Spanish citizenship as well as he must be needed EU passport to register him for the Italian club.
Keita then spent the 2012-13 season playing the youth team of Lazio U-19 before promoting to the senior team of Lazio. However, his first league career for the club against Chievo on September 15, 2013, contributing 3-0 wins. Later, he scored his first goal for the club against Parma on November 10, 2013. He was in the club for four-season showing the skills of scoring 26 goals in 110 matches.
Keita Balde was further transferred to AS Monaco agreeing to a five-year deal on August 29, 2017. He kicked his first competitive goal for the club against SM Saen on October 21, 2017. Thus far, he still plays for the club.
Keita Balde International Career
Though Keita Balde was born in Spain, he represented Senegal national team internationally. His first international match for his birth nation came over Niger as a replacement. Moreover, he along with his team has already included in Senegal’s 23 man team for playing FIFA World Cup 2018.
Keita Balde Total Net Worth, Endorsements, and Cars
One of the popular footballers of AS Monaco, Keita Balde is earning a fortune as his salary. He makes the annual salary in the region of around $9.1 million with the weekly salary of € 150,000 for his current club. However, his total net worth has not been published yet.
Despite football, the player also added a good sum of money through his prompting brands and endorsements. He is the brand ambassador for Nike.
Besides, Keita is also passionate about cars and has collected impressive cars from different manufacturers in his garage. His cars include BMW, Maserati, Lamborghini and so on.