Karim Benzema and N’Golo Kante are two French footballers that have left their mark in the game.
Karim Benzema, 35, a World Cup winner, plays as a striker for reigning European and La Liga champions Real Madrid.
N’Golo Kante, 32, a World Cup winner, plays for Premier League giants and 2021 Champions League winners Chelsea.
The two players are big names in football and are among top earners with juicy and lucrative contracts with their respective clubs.
Karim Benzema earns £278,000 weekly at Real Madrid while N’Golo Kante earns a weekly wage of £290,000 at Chelsea.
Kante earns a slightly higher wage than his French pal Karim Benzema but interestingly, the Chelsea top midfield sensation leads a simpler and modest lifestyle off the field.
Karim Benzema, on the other hand, knows how to rock it off-field. The former France international, who recently hung the boots from international duties, leads a flamboyant and extravagant lifestyle.
Away from football, Benzema spares no hint rocking his glam life in style to the admiration of his teeming fans.
Karim Benzema’s garage is an envy of aspiring footballers. It blinks and glitters with a fleet of exotic drives estimated to worth around £6m.
He has a Lamborghini Urus which reportedly cost £160,000 and a Bugatti Chiron valued at £2.5m.
Also in the fleet of his exotic drives is a £1.5m Bugatti Veyron with a £400,000 Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren and Ferrari 458 Spyder valued at £200,000.
He also has a £250,000 Rolls-Royce Wraith and a £220,000 Lamborghini Gallardo.
Karim Benzema has a great taste for fashion and has been spotted on several occasions donning costly designer wears and other astonishing outfits and costumes.
Benzema reportedly splashed £3,000 on a customized 24 carat IPhone.
His clothes, watches, bracelets and jewelries are classic. Every bit of his earnings counted when he made an appearance in last year’s Ballon d’Or ceremony in France.
He was dressed in a black tuxedo and a branded collar shirt. He also wore a Cartier bracelet and Richard Mille watch.
In contrast to Karim Benzema’s elegant showing both in his outfits and drives, N’Golo Kante has never been spotted on a designer wear.
During the wedding ceremony of one of his then Chelsea pal Cesc Fabregas, N’Golo was spotted with a white shirt , Blue shorts, and camphas.
At his spare time, Kante prefer simple leisurely wears that is just a tiny fraction of his hourly wage at Chelsea.
Kante has only one car – a £20k second-hand Mini Cooper – which he bought when he joined the Premier League in 2015, playing for Leicester City.
Kante is reportedly using his old phone which he bought 10 years ago while he was playing for Caen in 2013 before joining Leicester City.
Obviously, lifestyle choices may not be dependent on one’s pocket when it comes to top footballers but a matter of taste and preferences.
Both players have been among the best their national team have produced for their respective roles in their generation. They have landed lucrative deals with the biggest clubs in Europe but have chosen different paths in lifestyle.
