Due to the amount of money in football, there are many African footballers who own private jets which makes travelling that little bit easier.
For most a lot of in the world, they won’t be able to afford to rent one let alone have one.
However, due to the dedication of their craft they have been able to reach top levels in football where they are able to earn 6 and even 7 figure incomes each year.
Now if you are a user of social media, then you will know that footballers love to flaunt personal belongings of theirs.
Whether it be a fancy new car, some fresh clothes or even just a new chain.
But one thing you will see appear a lot is luxury transportation, so in this post, I will be taking you through 7 African footballers who like to take the private Jet out for a spin
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1. Alex Iwobi
Alex Iwobi is an African footballer with a private jet who plays for Premier League side Everton FC.
Born in Lagos, Nigeria, he started his rise to becoming a professional footballer with Arsenal, where he joined at 8 years old.
He then had a successful spell at the club, after Arsene Wenger put faith in him by giving him his first start in 2015 at 19.
Going on to make 100 appearances for the club, and scoring 11 goals too.
Now Iwobi has been at the top level for a few years now, and despite being only 25 he has been able to accumulate a lot of wealth over that time.
Currently, in Merseyside with Everton, he now earns £2,600,000 a year, and with that money, he has been able to acquire the services of a Private Jet.
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2. Wilfred Zaha
A player who we could of saw playing for England but in the end, chose to switch to Ivory Coast is Wilfred Zaha.
The Crystal Palace player is a serious baller and is one of the most skilful players in the premier league.
However, while he is one of the clubs best players, many would argue he is still yet to hit top gear and while now getting towards the prime ages of his career there is a lot more for him to achieve.
As a long with his skilful playstyle where you often see him beating an opposing player with pace and trickery, he also likes to flaunt his look and lifestyle on the gram.
Earning a reported 6.76 million a year, he has put images up on Instagram of him going on holidays with his wife and his child in his Private Jet.
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3. Gervinho
One player with who Arsenal fans will be very familiar is Gervinho.
During his time in north London, he was an instant hit with the gunners, which saw him chip in with 9 goals in 46 appearances.
The ivory coast player who now plays his football in Turkey with Transzonspor recently had a successful spell with Parma, where he scored 23 goals over a three-year spell.
He is a player who has had a successful career, playing for 8 clubs in total which also includes spells over in France and even China.
Now with all the players who were given opportunities to go to China, during the stage where crazy wages and fees were being thrown around Gervinho was, therefore, able to benefit.
Of course, playing at the top level has helped him earn a good amount of money over the years, but with a reported £615,000 contract during his time over with Hebei Fortune would have seen the player earn a lot of money.
As a result, he has been able to purchase and use a Private Jet, to get himself from A to B, as you can see below.
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4. Mohammed Salah
Liverpool number 10 and an Egyptian national team star man Mohammed Salah uses a private jet to get himself around the world.
The player has risen to a point where he is considered as one of the best players of the current generation.
Of which you can see why with an impressive record of 95 goals in 145 games while with Liverpool.
This in turn as seen the player rewarded with a big salary of 10.4 million GBP a year.
He has an active social media where he is frequently updating it and showing his fanbase his lavish lifestyle and what he gets up to on and off the field.
With that said though, and with a private jet to his name, he doesn’t show it off.
In fact, the last time he shared with the world a trip that he did in it, was back in 2018 for the player of the year awards.
As you can see below showing off his awarded trophies on route back to Merseyside.
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Salah is always showing off the destinations he visits, so while he might not show too many pictures of his jet, its very likely he travels in it to and from locations.
5. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Next up we Patrick-Emerick Aubameyang who while was raised in France, chose to play for Gabon.
The striker who has been ripping up the premier league playing for Arsenal as splashed out on numerous fancy and expensive items.
A lot of which he takes to Instagram to share with his followers, which include several Lamborghini’s in numerous colours, designer clothing and of course his private jet.
6. Samuel Eto’o
Samuel Eto’o is up there as one of the best footballers to ever come from Africa.
He was a striker who in his day was untouchable and very clinical in 1 v 1 scenarios.
This is reflected by the stat of him scoring 293 goals in 587 games, over a career of having stints at Barcelona, Inter Milan and Chelsea
Now at 40 though, and with his boots finally hung up after 21 years in the game, he is an entrepreneur who has set up a number of companies.
With how much the professional footballer makes and accumulated over his successful career it would be a surprise if Eto’o wasn’t using some form of luxury transportation to get to places.
So as you would expect he does have a Private Jet, that he flogs to his 5.6 million followers on Instagram.
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7. Riyad Mahrez
Riyad Mahrez has had a great couple of seasons up north since making the switch from Leicster City to Manchester City.
After making the transfer for £60 million back in 2018, he became the most expensive african player of all time.
Securing the move, he was able to lock in a base annual salary of £6,240,000, to add to all the money he has made up to now playing in the Premier League and in France with La Havre.
The Algerian born player who along with his fiance, has shown his private jet of when going on holiday.
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Conclusion
So there you go, above you have 7 African footballers who own private jets.
With the high wages that players get, especially at the top levels, most players are able to buy them.
However despite that from those who do use private jets, they will either choose to share pictures of it or keep it for themselves.
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