The 28-year-old Dutchman plys his commerce with Catalan giants FC Barcelona and is without doubt one of the coolest athletes in soccer and sports activities typically.
As he marks his twenty eighth birthday as we speak, listed below are 10 issues it is best to know in regards to the Dutch attacker:
Depay was born to a Ghanian father – Dennis Depay and a Dutch mom Cora Schensema on the thirteenth of February 1994 in a small South Holland village of Moordrecht within the Netherlands.
So Memphis is definitely of Ghanaian descent though, in 2012, Memphis dropped his final identify to sever ties along with his father following an earlier comment when he mentioned, “Don’t name me Depay, name me Memphis.”
Memphis can also be recognized for his unbelievable set-piece and free-kick capability.
Within the 2014/15 season with Dutch aspect PSV Eindhoven, he was statistically the very best set-piece taker in the entire of Europe, scoring 7 occasions in 33 makes an attempt, probably the most throughout all European leagues and the second-best on accuracy.
Memphis present relationship standing stays unknown.
In June 2017, information circulated on social media that Memphis was engaged to standard US mannequin and social influencer Lori Harvey, the youngest daughter of standard American tv character Steve Harvey.
Though since then, they’ve ended their engagement and relationship in 2018.
Memphis has been extraordinarily discreet particularly in the case of ladies and relationships regardless that rumours had it that he had beforehand been in two relationships earlier than he dated Lori.
After Memphis gained the “Dutch Footballer of the 12 months” for his performances in the course of the 2014/15 season.
He additionally earned the title “Finest Younger Participant” on this planet within the 12 months 2015 by France Soccer.
In June 2015, he joined the English giants, Manchester United, for a payment of £25 million.
After a disappointing spell at Manchester United, he joined French aspect Olympique Lyon, changing into the membership’s finest participant and one of many highest in Ligue 1 scoring 63 targets in 139 appearances.
In June 2021, La Liga membership Barcelona introduced the free switch of Memphis on a two-year contract after agreeing to take an enormous pay-cut beneath ex-Barcelona coach Ronald Koeman.
In accordance with his grandmother, for the reason that age of 4, he had been aspiring to be a participant for Barcelona.
Memphis started pursuing a hip-hop profession in June 2017 when he launched his Los Angeles-inspired freestyle, “LA Vibes”.
The music video featured Quincy Promes, Memphis’ teammate on the Netherlands nationwide crew.
The music’s music video earned round 150,000 views inside hours of being uploaded to YouTube.
In December of 2017, Memphis launched his freestyle observe “Kings & Queens” and on 3 October 2018, he collaborated with musical artists Winne and Nana Fofie and producer Rass King for his Ghana-inspired single, “AKWAABA”.
He additionally launched his third freestyle, “Porto Cervo (Interlude)”, with Winne. Memphis launched his fourth freestyle, “5-mill” in response to his Instagram account reaching 5 million followers, though the freestyle was met with criticism claiming that Memphis’ public picture was hampered by way of his cigar smoking and his careless perspective.
In December 2018, he launched his second single, “No Love”, over his cancelled engagement with mannequin Lori Harvey. The music is multilingual, switching backwards and forwards between English and Dutch.
Memphis presently has over 73,000 month-to-month listeners on the digital music streaming platform Spotify and over 720,000 subscribers on his YouTube.
This multitalented musician/footballer presently has a internet value of round $23 million.
At Barcelona, his yearly compensation dropped from €7 million to €5 million that means his weekly pay dropped from round £115k per week to £82k. His foremost supply of earnings is from soccer, he additionally earns decently by way of his music and just lately introduced his partnership with Power drink firm Crimson Bull.
Memphis additionally owns his signature clothes line – Memphis Depay Clothes.
6 His Unbelievable Lion Tattoo took about 24 hours to finish
Depay is an enormous fan of physique artwork and expresses himself rather a lot by way of tattoos.
He has quite a few tattoos on his physique and probably the most notable of all is his unbelievable again tattoo of a Lion which covers his complete again.
Talking in regards to the tattoo he mentioned, “The lion on my again represents me – I’ve the guts of a lion. I acquired it executed in Manchester. It took a very long time as a result of it’s so massive, possibly like 24 hours in whole.
“The lion is for me, ‘the king of the jungle,’ and I all the time stayed on my toes regardless that it was tough.”
He additionally has quite a few different tattoos, amongst which is on his left arm – which is a tribute to his grandfather who died earlier than he had turned 15 years outdated.
He additionally has a tattoo on his left torso to point out Christ the Redeemer and the date 18.06.14 – the day he scored his 1st worldwide objective for the Netherlands.
Equally, he additionally has a tattoo on the within of his lip named “profitable”, which suggests profitable in Dutch. The final one is on his higher torso with the phrases “dream chaser”.
In April 2020, Memphis was criticised by a number of animal rights organisations for posting footage of himself with a liger(a hybrid of a lion and a tiger) cub whereas on trip in Dubai. Memphis responded by stating that ‘ligers’ usually are not even wild animals.
Memphis is without doubt one of the most energetic sports activities athletes on social media and one of many style freaks round in sports activities as we speak. He joined Twitter in April 2011 and has over 2.1 million followers on his @Memphis account. Equally, on his Instagram – he has greater than 13.4 million followers and over 5.6 million followers on Fb as nicely.
For a few years now, the soccer star continues to go to Ghana to undertake charity work.
In June he paid one other go to to the West African nation and this time round acquired engaged in additional actions. He sat with the scholars at school, took an indication language lesson and dressed as one of many college students.
The footballer additionally slept in one of many dormitories to point out his love for the nation.
At one in all his current visits, he mentioned, “The kids of Cape Deaf, in Ghana, fill me with pure happiness.
Seeing the way in which they stay with such optimistic vitality is an inspiration and I used to be blessed to take a seat in an indication language class with them and be taught new issues.”
