This is the moment Chelsea’s Marc Cucurella was apparently caught using his mobile phone while behind the wheel of his £140,000 Mercedes G-Wagon.
The 26-year-old Spaniard was said to have been driving the wagon near Dorking in Surrey, when he was caught appearing to be sending a text message.
The footage was taken by a British couple as they drove past the left-back at around 6pm on Tuesday, May 20.
Eight days later Cucurella was in Chelsea’s starting line-up in Wroclaw, Poland, as Enzo Maresca’s men beat Real Betis 4-1 in the Uefa Conference League final.
The couple claimed they had noticed the car before realising the driver appeared to be using his phone on closer inspection.
One said: ‘We looked over to see who it was and I clocked that it was Chelsea’s left back Marc Cucurella.
‘We drove past him again and I doubled checked to make sure it was him… he was on his phone.
‘My partner in the passenger seat was able to get a video and photos.’
Cucurella has been a near permanent starter for Chelsea this season in the Premier League, after being part of the squad that beat England in the final of the Euros with Spain in July 2024.
The passenger added: ‘It was really dangerous and very irresponsible of him, first to be doing it at all.’
Drivers caught using a mobile phone behind the wheel in the United Kingdom face being hit with a £200 fine and six points on their driving licence.
Cucurella moved to west London from Brighton in a £60million deal in 2022.
The Spain international struggled for consistency on the pitch, and later revealed that a number of circumstances away from the game also contributed to his dip in form, including the burglary of his family home.
However, as Cucurella settled at Stamford Bridge, the defender became an increasingly vital presence in the set-ups of head coaches Mauricio Pochettino and Maresca.
Cucurella also starred for Spain at last summer’s European Championship, helping La Roja take him the trophy for the fourth time in the nation’s history.
He features alongside his wife Claudia Rodriguez in the second season of Amazon’s Married To The Game.
Cucurella and Rodriguez allowed cameras to follow their daily lives, with the impact of their son Mateo’s autism on the family one of the emotional flashpoints of the programme.
The reality series also sees Rodriguez open up on the impact of a burglary which the family suffered shortly after the move to the west London club.
Cucurella and his family lost £62,000-worth of property in the break-in, including Louis Vuitton bags.
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