Rabbi Matondo is an England-born Welsh professional footballer. He plays in the Scottish Premiership for the club Rangers FC located in Govan, Scotland. His role in the team is as a winger. However, sometimes he also serves as a center forward per the team tactics. Furthermore, Cedric also plays for the Wales national football team. Notbaly, prior to Wales national team, he played for England at the U15 level in 2015.
Rabbi Matondo, the Rangers winger, has played for some of the world's top football clubs, including Schalke 04, Stroke City, Cercle Brugge, and FC Rangers. He is one of the world's most talented rising young football players. He represents himself wearing jersey number 17 for his current team. Moreover, The Liverpool-born winger played his youth career for Cardiff City and Manchester City in EFL youth competitions.
Rabbi Matondpo, the former Manchester City Youth player, was born in Liverpool, England, on 9 September 2000. Despite being born in England, he is of African roots, i.e. DR Congo. Rabbis is just 21 years old at this time of writing, and his zodiac sign is Virgo per the birthdate. As per England's law, the person born in England automatically becomes a citizen. Due to this, he holds an English citizenship card. Also, from his parent's ancestry side, he can legally get DR Congo citizenship. Despite being born in Liverpool, he moved to southeast Wales when he was a child.
The footballer was raised in the Tremorfa area of Cardiff. Hence, his is tri nationality players from DR Congo, England, and Wales. Well, Matonda is ths son of Dada Matondo and mother Monique Motondo. His father was a footballer too. Dada used to play soccer during his youth in DR Congo. Matondo family members are primarily engaged in football background. Rabbi is not the only child in thier family. Along with him, he has two sibling brothers by his side. They are Cedrick Matondo and Japhet Matondo. Both of them play soccer at an amateur level. All Matondo family beliefs are in the Christian religion. Eyesight his educational background, Rabbi attended Llanishen High school.
Rabbi Matondo, the 21-year-old footballer, possesses a good height of 5 ft 9 inches or 1.75m. He has a well-maintained athletic body shape with a weight of around 66 kg. Though he is from an African ethnic community, his skin type is dark. Further description, Rabbi has deadlocked his hair.
Rabbi Matondo seems to be single at the moment. Though, the player has not officially announced anything regarding his love life as it remains everyone's curiosity. Due to his private personality, he has kept his private matter away from the public domain. It has been four years since he has been in this profession, so rather than being in a relationship, he is looking forward and grinding hard to make his successful career. We will keep the tabs and soon update you on this when available.
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Shortly after his birth in Liverpool, his family migrated to south-east Wales. He began his career as an amateur player at Cardiff City. At Cardiff, he gave his a decade playing for its youth team. In 2016, he moved to the Premier League side, joining the youth team of Legendary club Manchester City under the Elite Player Performance Plan. Unfortunately, he could not play for the City due to the Cardiff appeal against his move, and he was blocked for some time. After compensating the appeal with £5,00,000, he finally debuted for Machester City U 21 on 15 August 2017, Rotherham United. Before City's U21, he also played 15 matches for City U 19. His senior professional career began with the German club Schalke 04 in 2019. With the reported fee of £11 million rising footballer, he joined Schalke 04 on a four and half year move.
Matondo's first game appearance as a Ranger's player SOURCE: Instagram Just after three days, on February 2, Rabbi made his professional debut coming off the bench in 75 minutes, replacing Sebastian Rudy in a match against SC Freiburg. He scored his first ever pro career goal against RB Leipzig on 28 September. He appeared in 32 games, adding two goals to his tally. However, he then joined the English Premier side, joining Stroke City until the end of the 2020-21 season. He just played six months for Stoke City FC. With an option to make it permanent, he subsequently made his move to the Belgian First Divison side, marking an agreement with Cercel Brugge K.S.V for a season-long loan on 12 July 2021. He registered nine goals in his name playing his 26 games for the team.
The following year, the Scottish Premiership club Rangers announced its new signing of Rabbi Matondo on 12 July 2022 for a major four-year contract. He debuted for Rangers in the clash with Belgian side Union Saint-Gilloise during a European Champion League on the 2nd of October. So far, Rabbi Matondo has made three appearances in UEFA Champion League, four matches in Scottish Premiership, and a match in Scottish League Cup. Before he moved to the Scottish side, EFL giants clubs such as Manchester United had an eye on him.
As mentioned earlier, he can legally play for all three nations, i.e., England, Wales, and DR Congo. Among all, he opted to play for Wales national team. Nevertheless, before his Wales presence, Rabbi was the England youth international at U15 in 2015. Rabbi got his first call for the Wales national team in November 2018. Finally, he made his international debut for Wales in a friendly match against Albania on 20 November. He was just 17 years of age when he debuted for the Wales soccer squad. Not to mention, Rabbi is grinding hard for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Keeping in mind Rabbi Matonda is just 21 years of age. Despite that, he has proved his worth as the highest earning rising footballer in the man time. His estimated net worth, as reported by Salary Sport, is £3,021,200. As an amateur player at Manchester City, his annual pay was £5,200. However, after turning pro in 2019, his salary numbers also raised to £7,80,000 at FC Schalke 04. His highest income was £8,32,000 annually and £16,000 weekly during his stay at Schalke 04. Well, he recently joined the Scottish Premiership club Rangers just a few months ago; as a result, the club has not published the wage he gets.
Matondo promoting Puma boots SOURCE: Instagram Moreover, he also makes a handsome amount of money from his national team. In addition, he is now worth €4 million, and €9 million was his highest worth on 10 Feb 2019. Wasserman, the football agent, looks after all his new signings and transfers. Rabbi's way of living is pretty luxurious. Besides his earnings from his profession, he also collaborates with Sports brands like Puma, leading him extra revenue for its product promotion in his public domain.
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