Beni Baningime is a professional football player who plies his trade in the English championship for Wigan Athletic having moved on loan from Everton.
Although he is still yet to make an international appearance for his country, the Congolese star who plays as a central midfielder seems to be having a great footballing career ahead of him.
Beni Baningime Biography
The soccer star was born as Beni Tangama Baningime in 1998 on the 9th of September in Kinshasa the capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa. Baningime comes from a very supportive family and has a younger brother who plays as a forward for Wigan Athletic Football Club.
He was raised in DR Congo until the age of eight when his family decided to move to England. He attended his primary school at St. Jude’s and obtained a high school education at St. John Fisher both in the Wigan Greater Manchester area of England.
Growing up in a family that loved football, he has had a passion for the sport since he was a kid and so when he was only 9, he joined Everton Academy where he continued to improve himself. By the time he graduated from the academy, he had already earned the Premier League 2 and the Dallas Cup titles. More so, he was named the Player of the Year of the Everton F.C. Reserves and Academy for the 2016/2017 season.
In 2017, he was promoted to the senior team of the club and made his debut for the club’s senior team in a League Cup against Chelsea before proceeding to make a half-time debut premier league appearance against Leicester City.
In 2018 he signed a contract keeping him in Everton till May 2022. However, an ankle sprain in October 2018 during the pre-season visit to Austria, stirred Silva to knock Baningime out of contention during the preseason, sending him back to train with the youngsters. This move raised controversy around the actual reasons why the club’s manager Marco Silva may be sidelining the player and his prompt loan to Wigan Athletic for the rest of the 2018/2019 football season in January 2019.
As regards his international career, Beni Baningime revealed he is still yet to decide on whether he will be playing for his home country or for the Three Lions, as for now, he is all about trying to develop himself on the club level. Also, the Congolese midfielder revealed back in 2017 that he was going to decide on the country he would play for together with his father. That said, he is eligible to play for both DR Congo and England.
What is the Net Worth and Salary of Beni Baningime?
The current net worth of Beni Baningime is unknown, although as a player he has a current market value of ₤2,000,000 and that amount could go as high as ₤3,000,000.
When he first signed a 3-year contract with Everton in 2017, he took home a weekly salary of £2,000 and an annual salary of £104,000. He received this pay until 2019 when he was offered another contract expected to keep him in the club until 2021 when he will be 22 years old. Based on the contract, his new weekly pay is £8,000 while his annual salary is £416,000.
There is no record of any endorsement deals that he is enjoying at the moment.
Dating and Girlfriend
The young footballer has maintained a very private life, ensuring that he doesn’t reveal so much about himself to the public. That said, there is nothing that has been mentioned about his girlfriend in the public domain, and so it is easy to assume that he is more dedicated to improving himself as a football player at the moment.
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Height and Weight
Beni Baningime is a slim and trim footballer who stands at a towering height of 1.78 m. More so, he has a bodyweight of 70kg.
Other Facts
1. Baningime’s father was a doctor and the young footballer said in a podcast on March 1st with Wigan Athletic FC that he probably would have become a doctor too.
2. Sam Morsy is noted as being the footballer’s first choice if he ever ran into any real-life difficulty
3. His younger brother Divin has scored 6 goals in the under 18s for the Latics in the 2018/2019 season
4. Beni won the Keith Tamlin Award for excellence attributing to his application and attitude. His playing style has been likened to great footballers such as French midfielder N’golo Kanta and Claude Makelele.
Complete profile of Beni Baningime
| Beni Baningime | |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Beni Tangama Baningime |
| Date of Birth | 9 September 1998 |
| Age | 22 years |
| Zodiac Sign | Virgo |
| Nationality | Congo |
| Ethnicity | Congolese |
| Birth place | Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Profession | Professional footballer |
| Education | St. John Fisher High School St. Jude’s Primary School |
| Playing Position | Midfielder |
| Clubs | 2007–2017 Everton 2017– Everton 2019 → Wigan Athletic (loan) 2021– → Derby County (loan) |
| Father | NA |
| Mother | NA |
| Siblings | Divine Baningime |
| Marital Status | Single |
| Spouse/Partner | NA |
| Girlfriend | NA |
| Kids | NA |
| Religion | NA |
| Estimated Net Worth: | NA |
| Source of net worth | Football career |
| Height | Feet- (5ft 10 in) Meters- 1.78 m Centimeters-178cm |
| Weight | 70 kg |
| Eye color | Black |
| Hair color | Black |
| Social media | NA |
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