Chelsea
midfielder Enzo Fernandez has been found guilty of a motoring offence and
could be banned from driving.
The 23-year-old Argentina international was convicted of failing to identify
the driver of a Porsche Cayenne.
He was charged with failing to give information relating to the
identification of the driver when required to by Dyfed-Powys Police on
December 27 last year.
Fernandez was found guilty in his absence at a hearing at Llanelli
Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, according to court documents.
Two other charges - of driving a car on a road without third-party insurance
and failing to stop at a red light in Church Street, Llanelli - were
withdrawn.
Fernandez, whose address was given as the Chelsea training ground in Surrey,
was ordered to attend the sentencing hearing in Llanelli on September 11.
Court documents state his attendance was required "to consider if there are
mitigating circumstances (including exceptional hardship) for not ordering
disqualification".
Fernandez won the World Cup with Argentina in December 2022 and a month
later joined Chelsea in a British transfer record £106.8million deal from
Benfica.
He joined the Lisbon side in the summer of 2022 from Argentinian club River
Plate for £8.8m and played just 29 games before moving to London.
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