Marcus Bettinelli Chelsea profile: Everything about the Blues goalkeeper
Marcus Bettinelli Chelsea is a professional football player who plays as a third goalkeeper in The Blue after Edouard Mendy and Kepa Arrizabalaga. Let’s find out every detail about the Blues goalkeeper: personal profile, career path, and daily life.
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Marcus Bettinelli Chelsea Profile
Full Name | Marcus Bettinelli |
Date Of Birth | 24 May 1992 |
Place Of Birth | Camberwell, England |
Height | 1.94 meters |
Weight | 84 kilograms |
Nationality | British |
Gender | Male |
Marital Status | Single but Engaged |
Girlfriend | Nadia Faccenda |
Profession | Professional Football Player |
Current Club | Chelsea FC |
Position | Goal Keeper |
Net Worth | $1 Million |
Marcus Bettinelli Net Worth and Salary in 2022
Bettinelli’s net worth is estimated at about $1 Million. This is from the earnings that he makes from his professional career. At The Blue, his weekly salary is about £35,000 per week and an annual salary of £1,820,000. He owns a house together with several cars in London.
Career path overviews
The goalkeeper is an English professional football player. He plays as a third goalkeeper for the English Premier League club name Chelsea FC. He came to the Stamford Bridge stadium as the 3rd goalkeeper for the first-team lineup squad after Edouard Mendy and Kepa Arrizabalaga.
The goalkeeper has a great ability to catch the ball in every condition. Besides that, the 29-year-old goalkeeper is also a player who chooses a very reasonable entry and exit point. With a height of 1m94, Bettinelli must be a solid wall in front of Chelsea’s goal as well as the England national football team.
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Domestic football career
As a professional football player, he had played for several English football clubs which are:
Fulham (2010 – 2021)
Marcus Bettinelli started his professional football career at Fulham youth academy when he was 12 years old. He was trained by his father Vic Bettinelli, who is the most experienced trainer in the Fulham football academy.
Bettinelli goalkeeper had a total of 11 years playing for Fulham FC with 103 matches. However, he did not have a great performance here. This led to Bettinelli’s decision of resigning from Fulham after long years of contribution.
Dartford (2012 – 2013)
After having an official contract with Fulham in July 2017, the current Chelsea goalkeeper had been transferred to Dartford in the 2012 – 2013 seasons as a loan. He had 35 appearances for Dartford and was the number-one goalkeeper of the club at that time.
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Accrington Stanley (2013 – 2014)
After a successful season with Dartford, Marcus Bettinelli had been transferred to another football club on a loan. The club that the 29 years old goalkeeper transferred to is Accrington Stanley, a football club that played in the tier 3 English football league system. The current players had a great performance with 39 official appearances for the club. He had been called back to Fulham and was an important player in Fulham’s lineup squad for several seasons.
Middlesbrough (2020 – 2021)
Bettinelli had been transferred to Middlesbrough on a loan in the 2020 – 2021 seasons and became the number one goalkeeper of the new teams after a long time of being a substitution in Fulham. The 29-year-old goalkeeper had proved himself with 27 appearances and became the number one goalkeeper of the team in the last seasons.
Chelsea FC (2021 – present)
Marcus Bettinelli joined the Premier League Club, Chelsea FC, on 28 July 2021 for a 2-year contract. The transfer fee of this contract is still unknown. However, he had to train hard to get Thomas Tuchel to believe in the next EPL season.
International football career
In his international career, Marcus Bettinelli Chelsea got called up for the England U21 team in November 2014 for the first time in a match against Portugal and France. His debut on the Under21 team came in March 2015 when he was featured in a friendly match against the Czech Republic. In September 2018, he got called up to the senior England national squad for matches against Switzerland and Spain.
Personal achievement
Being on the Chelsea goalkeeper list with Kepa Arrizabalaga, the player also achieved several notable awards.
- Play-off for advancing to EFL Championship with Fulham in 2018, and 2020
- UEFA Super Cup with Chelsea in 2021
- Fifa Club World Cup with Chelsea in 2021
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Daily lifestyle
Bettinelli has a mixed ethnicity, with his father having Italian descent and his mother an English descent. His father was a goalkeeping coach in Fulham hence motivating Bettinelli in becoming a goalkeeper. He is a player who does not tell so much about his daily life. His social medial channels only updated about his practicing or relaxing after a tough game.
Marcus Bettinelli girlfriend
Marcus Bettinelli is currently engaged to Nadia Faccenda, who is his girlfriend. Nadia Faccenda is 5 years younger than Marcus. She is a model from Scotland who has been featured in several places, which include the ASOS, Debenhams, Ultimo, and Pretty Little Things.
Nadia Faccenda is also an actress. She had her first debut in the year 2017 on the BBC Drama Clique, where she played the lesbian love interest. Nadia Faccenda studied at Motherwell College, where she pursued a professional career in acting and performance.
Bettinelli Chelsea goalkeeper and his girlfriend commenced dating in 2018 and got engaged in May 2021.
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