Enzo has been banned from driving for six months (Picture: Getty)
Chelsea footballer Enzo Fernandez has been banned from driving after being found guilty of a motoring offence.
Fernandez was fined £3,020 and disqualified from driving for six months at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court after being found guilty of two charges of failing to identify the driver of a Porsche Cayenne.
A driver of the car was allegedly caught speeding on Carmarthen Road, Swansea, on December 20, 2023, by South Wales Police.
The vehicle also ran a red light on Church Street, Llanelli on November 28 last year, according to Dyfed-Powys Police.
It was not proven that Fernandez was the driver of the vehicle on either occasion.
As the fifth highest paid player at Chelsea, the Argentine midfielder earns £180,000 per week.
That adds up to earning £75 per minute – meaning the footballer will be able to pay back the fine in just 51 minutes.
Fernandez did not appear before Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday for sentencing, having been found guilty in his absence at two hearings earlier this year.
Court papers gave two addresses for Fernandez, one at the Chelsea training ground in Surrey and another in Kingston-upon-Thames.
Wyn Evans, the chair of the magistrates, said: ‘We are dealing with two matters of failing to give the driver’s identity which has been proved in Enzo Fernandez’s absence.’
He was also given six penalty points for each offence – 12 points in total. Fernandez already had nine penalty points on his license for speeding, leading to an automatic ban for six months starting from Wednesday.
Fernandez won the World Cup with Argentina in December 2022 and a month later joined Chelsea in a then-British transfer record £106.8 million deal from Benfica.
He joined the Lisbon side in the summer of 2022 from Argentinian club River Plate for £8.8 million and played just 29 games before moving to London.
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