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Kylian Mbappé Biography Facts, Childhood, Life, Net Worth

Kylian Adesanmi Mbappé Lottin (born December 20, 1998) is a French professional football player who is certainly one of the best players who have made their score during their teenage years. Amongst the marginal minority of dexterous, adroit teenagers in the sporting world of soccer, Mbappé is that sensational man whose mastery of skill has taken the trail of the great Brazilian Pele. However, what in point of fact can be assumed to be a role to this player’s brilliance, his life outside the pitch and his personal life? We analyze the life of this amazing champion in our Kylian Mbappé biography facts, childhood, career, personal life and net worth.

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Kylian Mbappé Childhood/Early Life & Family Background

Kylian Adesanmi Mbappé Lottin was born on the 20 th day of December 1998, to two African parents who were settlers in France. Precisely six months following the France 1998 FIFA World cup, Mbappé was born to a sporting Family to a Cameroonian Father with Nigerian roots and Algerian mother, Mr and Mrs Wilfred and Fayza Mbappé who migrated to France. Their son’s prospect Kylian was well administered by them since he had a lot of potential in soccer which could be acknowledged as his father who was a soccer coach by profession tutored his son. Not a zilch seemed to daunt Kylian Mbappé from his ambitioned profession, not the unrest and aggression at the time, nor impractical matters concerning his career like schooling.

Even at an early age of six, he had achieved detection and discovery as one of France most excellent child footballers.

Trained to be a professional footballer by his own father, Kylian was groomed at AS Bondy where his father managed the club. He was trained to be a Left winger, an amazing dribbler and how to scorch swiftly—the basic style of his game. He was on one occasion described by another manager at the club to be a football genius—’a crack’. Afterwards, he moved to Clairefontaine academy where his notable, extraordinary teenage performance awarded a lot of attractions and signing attempts from a lot of French and non-French teams. This saw him leave for Chelsea where he played in the Under 11s’ team. He eventually settled at A.S Monaco the initial spot where his remarkable career was set in motion.

Kylian Mbappé Football Career, Achievements, Awards

Junior club career, senior club career, national team career.

Kylian Mbappé can be referred to as a youth garlanded with a number of trophies and awards, launching from the Ligue 1 league title, Coupe de France title, Russia 2018 World cup, Ligue 1 young player of the year award, Golden boy award, FIFA Best Men Player of the year nominee and 2018 FIFA World cup Best Young Player award, he is a notable football youngster capable of fitting to clinch the Ballon d’Or title.

Mbappé made his opening lineup premiere on 2 nd December 2015 in a Ligue 1 league game for A.S Monaco in opposition to SM Caen. He became the youngest player to feature for AS Monaco at 16 years of age. Astonishingly in Mbappé’s 1 st complete season with A.S Monaco, he helped the side to clinch the Ligue 1 league title in the 2016/2017 season along with the Coupe de France title. He consequently fascinated the gigantic member league side PSG in the summer of 2017. This fetched him the most expensive teenage player after his loan move to PSG with an option for a full transfer.

He also helped PSG triumph the Ligue 1 league title which made him win the League title two times consecutively in two different sides. Mbappé made his premiere in the French Senior side when he was 18 years old, in 2017. During the Russia 2018 World cup, Mbappé exhibited his significance and merit with two goals in the competition which included a goal in the final in the 4-2 victory against Croatia. He was named 2018 FIFA World Cup Best Young Player and also the second yet teenager to keep a tally of two goals in the tournament amid a goal in the final after Pele had set both records.

Kylian Mbappé Net Worth, Salary & Endorsements

As of 2020, Kylian Mbappe’s net worth is reportedly valued around $110 million. This figure is not static as it is expected to increase exponentially in the coming years given that his value in the sport continues to increase. In 2019 alone, Forbes reported that Mbappe earned about $30 million in salary. Kylian Mbappe has a major endorsement and sponsorship deal with Nike worth up to €3 million.

Kylian Mbappé Personal Life, Girlfriend, Trivia

As a kid, Mbappé met with stars like Cristiano Ronaldo , Zinedine Zidane and Thierry Henry. Mbappé met with Ronaldo in 2012 when he was 13 years and some months old. Although it seems that Mbappé has metamorphosed to a young man in a short while before he gained prominence in 2017 at A.S. Monaco.

Presently, his father serves as a soccer agent for him while training his younger brother with a seven-year difference—Ethan Adeyemi Mbappé. He on one occasion had a concurrence with A.S. Monaco to convey his brother as his mascot at a Champions league feature after much urging from the kid. Kylian has an elder adopted brother of from Congo, Jires Kembo-Ekoko who actually appears to be his first soccer statue. Mbappé’s goal celebration which features him with his arms crossed under his armpits and tongue sticking out is said by him to be dedicated to his brother who does so following victory playing soccer on PlayStation.

According to various sources online, France striker Kylian Mbappé is reportedly dating Miss France 2017, Alicia Aylies. However, into his love life, Mbappé choose it to be a secret. Without qualms, being a star has made him on the wish-list of many ladies. Quoting to his mother, she claims that Monaco, where Mbappé resides, is a better and safer place for him due to the disturbance and disruption from ladies in Paris.

Mbappé is loved by his speed and playing style. Although young, he is a great potential and is believed to be a future Ballon d’Or contender after the retirement of Lionel Messi and Christiano Ronaldo.

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Kylian Mbappe: The incredible, inevitable rise of a superstar as he leaves PSG

There is a famous photograph of Kylian Mbappe as a 14-year-old at home in Bondy on the outskirts of Paris, sitting on his bed in a room plastered with posters of his hero Cristiano Ronaldo .

When talking about the extraordinary rise of a young athlete, from humble beginnings to the biggest stages in world sport, we are almost duty-bound to suggest there is no way he could have imagined what lay ahead back then: lighting up the Champions League for Monaco and signing for Paris Saint-Germain in a €180million ($198million, £155 million) deal at 18, winning the World Cup at 19, scoring a hat-trick for France in a World Cup final at 23, becoming PSG ’s record goalscorer at 24 and now seemingly heading towards fulfilling another ambition by joining Real Madrid at 25 after informing PSG he is leaving the club at the end of the season.

But Mbappe was certain. One of his first coaches recalls him memorising and belting out La Marseillaise as a six-year-old “because one day I will play for the France team”.

Around that time, a family friend bought him a model of Real Madrid’s stadium to indulge or perhaps mock his insistence the Bernabeu was his destiny. Mbappe responded by forcibly telling him, “No, one day I will take you there.”

Then there is the story of how, in a classroom at Monaco’s youth academy, he and his peers were given an assignment to design a magazine cover.

They were all sufficiently self-absorbed to put themselves on the cover. But Mbappe’s submission stood out not just because, for once, he was immersed in a classroom assignment but because, rather than a football or fashion magazine, he had imagined himself (“Kylian Mbappe: El Maestro”, the best young player in the world) on the front page of Time, seemingly underlining an ambition to transcend the sport.

The world is full of young footballers who are utterly convinced they will make it to the very top. Some of them have the talent to back up their confidence. But few of them even come close to fulfilling their presumed destiny. Only a tiny proportion make the big time. Only one can emerge as, it increasingly appears, the dominant footballer of his generation.

In the dressing room at Lusail Stadium in Doha, Didier Deschamps was reading the riot act.

France were 2-0 down to a Lionel Messi -inspired Argentina at half-time in the 2022 World Cup final and the coach flew into an uncharacteristic rage, telling his players, “You’re not there!” and adding the difference between their opponents and themselves was that “they are playing in a f***ing final and we’re not.”

Some of the players sat quietly, looking sullen. But Mbappe jumped to his feet. “It’s a World Cup final, it’s the match of a lifetime!” he yelled. “We cannot do worse than we did (in the first half). We return to the field. Either we let them play or we increase the intensity, we get into the duels and we do something else, guys.

“It’s a World Cup final! We’re down by two goals. We can come back. Guys, this is every four years!”

Mbappe was 23 years old, the second-youngest player in France’s starting line-up. But youth has never lessened his sense of destiny. To borrow a memorable line uttered by former Arsenal striker Ian Wright about Bukayo Saka and, before that, by Loki in The Avengers, he is burdened with glorious purpose.

What happened next in Doha was extraordinary. With time running out, Mbappe converted a penalty to reduce the deficit and then, 97 seconds later, struck a powerful volley to equalise. In stoppage time, he cut infield, leaving Argentinian defenders trailing in his wake, and hit a rising shot that was deflected just over the crossbar, denying him what would surely have been the most dramatic hat-trick in football history.

He was a young man on a mission: another ice-cool penalty to equalise after Argentina went 3-2 up in extra time and another two mesmerising high-speed, high-octane dribbles of the type that leave you wondering if the guy is for real.

Of course, it ended up being Messi’s night and Messi’s tournament , the crowning glory to end all crowning glories.

But it was also the night that removed any remaining doubt as to his heir apparent.

Within six months, Messi departed the European stage for good, leaving Paris Saint-Germain for Inter Miami . Not quite an abdication, but, with Messi heading to Major League Soccer and his great rival Cristiano Ronaldo taking residence in the Saudi Pro League , it felt like the stage had been cleared.

“Many great players who have shaped the history of football have left Europe this summer and we are entering a new era,” Mbappe said in an interview published in the latest issue of GQ.

The Mbappe era? He will believe so, particularly now he is surely heading for Madrid.

He has scored 243 goals in 290 appearances for PSG, winning five Ligue 1 titles to add to the one he won at Monaco, but there has always been the sense of a player who, for once in his life, has found himself having to wait to fulfil his destiny on the very biggest stage in club football.

At Real Madrid, he would have precisely that.

In December 2012, the night before his 14th birthday, Mbappe received an invitation to visit Real Madrid for a trial.

He was already enrolled at Clairefontaine, the French Football Federation’s training centre for elite young players, and attracting interest from half the clubs in Ligue 1 as well as from Chelsea where, as this piece memorably details , his mother Fayza Lamari was riled by the suggestion that he come back for a second trial.

“No, we won’t come again,” she told an interpreter to inform the Chelsea coaches. “Tell them, ‘If you want to sign him, you sign him now. In five years’ time you will come back for him for £50 million.’ Translate that!”

The trip to Madrid was a different matter. Mbappe, unusually, was star-struck. He and his parents were greeted at the airport by the great Zinedine Zidane , then on the club’s technical staff, who addressed him by name and offered him a ride in his car. Mbappe marvelled at the leather upholstery and flew into a panic, asking Zidane whether he should take off his shoes. Zidane laughed.

He was given a tour of the club’s vast training complex, where he was introduced to Ronaldo. There is a photograph of the two of them: the teenage wannabe looking shy and awkward next to his hero. It might have been artistic licence, but in “Je M’Appelle Kylian Mbappe”, the autobiographical graphic novel he released in 2021, Mbappe appeared to suggest Zidane was the man behind the camera.

At the time, Mbappe called it the best weekend of his life. It only strengthened his resolve to play for Madrid, but his family were committed to finding a club in France to launch his career.

PSG were interested, but the most persuasive overtures initially came from Caen and Lens. Caen’s first offer led his father, Wilfried, to ask why they were “trying to catch a shark with a fishing rod”. They raised their offer and eventually agreed a deal, but the board wouldn’t ratify it. Aghast at this decision, the recruitment department resigned en masse.

In the end, Monaco emerged as the favoured destination. It was the summer of 2013 and, at a time when the club’s Russian owner Dmitry Rybolovlev was splashing the cash on Joao Moutinho, James Rodriguez and Radamel Falcao , the signing of a 14-year-old on a youth contract generated few headlines.

But he was certain they would come — even if others kept warning him he had to change.

If there were doubts over Mbappe, they concerned his attitude. That confident, driven nature and that boundless energy brought challenges.

Whenever family friends, teachers and coaches have spoken about him as an adolescent, they have alluded to hyperactive tendencies.

An early assessment of his behaviour concluded that he was “gifted” but that he might struggle to follow a “normal” education programme. There was difficulty establishing whether he was left or right-handed. In L’Equipe’s documentary “Kylian Mbappe: Hors Normes”, one of his secondary-school teachers, Nicole Lefevre, recalls him as “borderline hyperactive”.

It is unclear whether this was suggested in a medical sense or more generally, but Mbappe has admitted to being a difficult pupil. In his first-person article for the Players’ Tribune in 2022, he apologised to teachers and recalled “coming home from school one day with nine different warnings from the principal”.

His mother, a coordinator in the recreation department in Bondy’s local authority, was frequently summoned to school. She would be angry to hear of misbehaviour but she often sought to remind his teachers that he was “special”, not just a wayward kid.

She tried to engage him in other activities: swimming, visiting the Louvre, even taking up the transverse flute. But despite his ability in the classroom and a flair for languages — achieving fluency in English and Spanish — he had a one-track mind. Anything that got in the way of his football ambitions was unwelcome.

Stories of gifted young athletes being restless in the classroom, disengaged from their studies, are nothing new. But a hyperactive, distracted nature, struggling with discipline, is often cited in relation to a player’s struggle to fulfil his or her potential.

Whether right or wrong, the established narrative with Mbappe is that his nature made him unstoppable.

But Mbappe was not a model pupil in the sporting arena either. Those who coached him in his early days at AS Bondy recall him being like a “sponge”, able to soak up and retain information as well as show an innate understanding of technical instructions and positional concepts, but even at Clairefontaine and his academy days at Monaco he remained an individualist rather than a conformist. Dribble, shoot and score. Dribble, shoot and score. Dribble, shoot and score.

He was the most gifted among La Generation ’98 but his progress at Clairefontaine was not unblemished. Gerard Precheur, the former director of the academy, spoke in that L’Equipe documentary about a work ethic which was “not always well perceived by his coach at the time and by his comrades” and “could be taken as complacency, but I would say that it was not the case.”

Football-wise, the biggest battle the young Mbappe had was with Bruno Irles, who coached Monaco’s under-17 team. Irles felt the youngster lacked the right level of application. “The goal was really to show him what he was missing: what he had as a strong point and what he was missing for the high level,” the coach said.

“We said to him, ‘Yes, this is good, that’s good’ but I didn’t feel he was very receptive to comments that would have been constructive for him. At a certain point, pointing out what was wrong with his game and pointing out that there were ways to progress differently, … it became a bit tense around that.”

More than a bit tense. The relationship between player and coach disintegrated. His mother demanded a meeting with Monaco’s sporting director Luis Campos, warning that the youngster’s talent was being stifled and he would leave if he was not shown more respect. Mbappe ended up being allowed to train away from Irles, who quietly moved on at the end of the season to take up a position at AC Arles-Avignon.

Back on track, Mbappe was drafted into Monaco’s B team at the age of 16 and then, soon afterwards, the first-team squad. In December 2015, aged 16 years and 347 days, he made his professional debut, breaking Thierry Henry’s record to become the youngest first-team player in Monaco’s history.

And by this stage of his development, emerging from adolescence, his precocity, self-assurance and boundless energy were making him appear unstoppable.

Mbappe had just broken into Monaco’s first-team squad when Arsene Wenger first set eyes on him. “When I saw him the first time, I said, ‘It’s Pele!’,” the former Monaco and Arsenal manager recalled a few years later.

Even now, more than six decades on from the 1958 World Cup, the late, great Pele remains the gold standard when talking about teenage football prodigies making a grand entrance onto the game’s biggest stage.

Cristiano Ronaldo was extravagantly gifted, if inconsistent, when he joined Manchester United from Sporting Lisbon at 18. Messi’s talents were mesmerising when he began to establish himself in Barcelona ’s first team around the same age, but there was a physical fragility that he had not yet fully overcome. Mbappe? At 17 he already looked ready, mentally and certainly physically, to test himself at elite level.

In the summer of 2016, after France were agonisingly beaten on home soil by Portugal in the European Championship final, Mbappe excelled, scoring five goals, as their under-19 won their age-group title in Germany. Even if he was eclipsed in that tournament by his team-mate Jean-Kevin Augustin , but while the latter has struggled to fulfil his potential, Mbappe was about to go from strength to strength.

His performances for Monaco in the first half of that 2016-17 season drew rave reviews in France and comparisons with Henry as well as admiring glances from clubs further afield. But the matches that brought his talents to a wider audience came against Manchester City in the last 16 of the Champions League, scoring a goal in both legs and terrorising the Premier League ’s defence with his pace.

“Mbappe …,” Pep Guardiola said after the first leg, shaking his head. “He is so fast.”

The forward scored three times over two legs against Borussia Dortmund in the quarter-final, ending that season with 26 goals in all competitions for Monaco and forcing his way into the France senior squad, becoming the youngest debutant for Les Bleus since Maryan Wisniewski more than six decades earlier.

“It is quite remarkable what he has been doing, how calm and mature he is,” said France coach Didier Deschamps. “What makes him such a strong player, apart from his ability, is the way he always remains calm. That is very rare for someone his age.”

In the space of 12 months, Mbappe had gone from being a potential “next big thing” to a player all the leading clubs wanted. Barcelona were extremely keen, particularly when Neymar left for PSG. Arsenal and Liverpool both made serious enquiries to his entourage in the summer of 2017, with Arsene Wenger meeting him to try to persuade him to move to London. Both Manchester clubs showed interest. But the clubs pushing hardest were Real Madrid and PSG.

Madrid were strong favourites, confident that he would jump at the opportunity to move to the Spanish capital. Their offer of €180million (€150million guaranteed, €30million linked to future success) was accepted by Monaco. In an interview with Canal+, Vadim Vasilyev, Monaco’s vice-president at the time, recalled telling Mbappe, “We have received an offer that was impossible to refuse, from the club of your dreams, so tell me your answer.”

But Mbappe’s negotiations with Madrid proved problematic. His father Wilfried wanted guarantees about playing time — not easy with Karim Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo joined by Gareth Bale, Lucas Vazquez and Marco Asensio — and expected Mbappe to be among the club’s highest earners. At a meeting in California, where Madrid were on pre-season tour, Wilfried told the Spanish club’s hierarchy PSG had offered more money and more guarantees selection-wise. Relations were strained.

To the surprise of many, Mbappe ended up joining PSG. The French club had already broken the world transfer record to sign Neymar for €222million that summer, so they proposed a deal where he would move on a season-long loan from Monaco before making a permanent €180million transfer at the end of the season. “This is the project that will help me develop while I win titles,” he declared. Real Madrid could wait.

Along with Neymar’s move to Paris, Mbappe’s transfer caused deep disquiet among European football’s elite. Almost immediately UEFA announced a formal investigation into PSG’s finances, “particularly in light of its recent transfer activity”. The investigation was closed 10 months later with UEFA saying that PSG’s finances “will remain under scrutiny”.

But there was a more wholesome angle to the deal. At 18 years old, Mbappe was coming home.

Shortly after being paraded in front of the media at the Parc des Princes on September 6, 2017, Mbappe got into a car and was driven from Paris’s leafy western suburbs, around La Peripherique to the north-east, back to where it all began: back to Bondy, back to “le 93”, le neuf-trois.

You can take the boy out of Bondy. But Mbappe has always said you cannot take the Bondy out of the boy.

“In Bondy, you learn values that go beyond football,” he wrote in his Players Tribune article in 2020. “You learn to treat everyone the same, because you’re all in the same pot. You all dream the same dream. In Bondy, in the 93, in the banlieues, maybe there is not a lot of money, it’s true. But we are dreamers. We’re born that way, I think. Maybe it’s because dreaming doesn’t cost much. In fact it’s free.”

And so, in an event laid on by Nike, a €180million teenager kicked a ball around with boys and girls who shared his dreams. Overlooking them, on the side of a building, was a huge mural declaring Bondy to be “ville des possibles”, town of possibilities.

The 93rd departement, Seine-Saint-Denis, has the highest proportion of immigrants and the highest poverty rate. According to INSEE (France’s national institute of statistics and economic studies), 28.6 per cent of Bondy’s 50,000-plus residents live below the poverty line.

Like so many of those economically challenged neighbourhoods in the sprawling Parisian suburbs, it is also a breeding ground for football talent . Three members of the France squad at the 2022 World Cup, Mbappe, William Saliba and Randal Kolo Muani , are from Bondy.

At AS Bondy, where he took his first steps as a footballer under his father’s tuition, Mbappe’s legacy is enormous.

“He’s so influential, particularly among the youngsters,” says Ahmed Fettah, who coaches one of the girls’ teams. “My son looks to Mbappe. My daughter wasn’t attracted to football at first, but she too has been inspired by Mbappe and by some of the women’s players, so now she also comes here to play.

“It’s like there’s a fashion effect, the effect that comes from the success of Mbappe and all these players. Among the West African and Arabic people in the suburbs, it’s inspirational.”

On June 16 2018, still a teenager, Mbappe stood in the tunnel at the Kazan Arena before France’s opening game of the 2018 World Cup against Australia .

“Look at us,” he said to his team-mate Ousmane Dembele as they prepared to walk out. “The boy from Evreux and the boy from Bondy. We’re playing at the World Cup.”

He was still only 19. But by the time he left Russia a month later, he was a world champion, scoring four goals (including two against Messi’s Argentina in the last 16 and one in the final against Croatia ) as France won the trophy for the second time. He was the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pele in 1958. “Welcome to the club,” the great Brazilian declared.

It wasn’t just the goals. His performance against Argentina was breathtaking. Michael Cox revisited it four years later as part of his Reconsidered series for The Athletic and concluded that, if anything, it was even better than had been remembered.

He likened one Mbappe run, to win a penalty for France’s opening goal, to watching “a Formula 1 driver deploying DRS”. “But it’s about more than that,” Cox wrote. “It’s about the fact that Argentina are utterly terrified of him.”

Some felt the game in Kazan signalled a changing of the guard, with the sun setting on Messi’s international career and his World Cup aspirations, replaced in the sporting firmament by a new football phenomenon more than a decade his junior.

It didn’t quite work out that way; Messi would have a rather significant say in Qatar four years later, aged 35. But Mbappe’s status as the leader of the next generation seemed secure.

The final at Luzhniki Stadium was a strange occasion. So often over the previous three decades, World Cup finals had been tense encounters between two teams frightened of making a mistake. In 2018, by contrast, there were thrills and spills galore. It was an entertaining match rather than a great one, but Mbappe’s goal, swept past Danijel Subasic from the edge of the penalty area to put France 4-1 up and put the outcome beyond doubt, will live long in the memory.

“We’ve just watched the purest thing in sports,” Brian Phillips wrote in The Ringer. “A story that ends: and the kid went out and did it .

“The grand narrative of soccer is written in heaven by a group of angelic hippopotami — they wear togas— and we’ve just watched them start a new page.”

Remember how, in that classroom assignment during his time at Monaco’s academy, Mbappe imagined himself on the front page of Time?

In October 2018 he made it there for real, the cover star for Time’s “next generation leaders” issue, which highlighted “the faces who will shape the world in years to come”.

He felt it surreal. “My life has been totally upside-down,” he told the magazine.

At the same time, he could hardly have been better prepared for the demands of modern superstardom. He grew up in the age of social media. He felt certain he was destined for the top. Nothing really seemed to faze him or blow him off course. Although his parents separated, his family network remained a source of solidity, strength and support, helping to keep his feet on the ground.

He told Time he felt he “might have missed out on something” due to his fame. “I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.”

Instead, he had been forced to do his growing up in public. But, he said, “I’m happy. I’m living the life I always dreamed of.”

It hasn’t all been plain sailing. If everything went right for him at the 2018 World Cup, then Euro 2020 was a different matter entirely: just three shots on target (and no goals) in 390 minutes of football before he was thwarted by Switzerland goalkeeper Yann Sommer in a penalty shoot-out as France were eliminated in the first knock-out round.

In a vignette that reflected some of the turmoil within the France camp at that tournament, television footage caught midfielder Adrien Rabiot’s mother Veronique exchanging words with Mbappe’s father in the stands, saying the penalty miss was “embarrassing” and should bring him down a peg or two.

The fallout was worse than that. Mbappe received racist abuse on social media and was deeply unhappy that the French Football Federation didn’t show him more support.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated, he said he had told Noel Le Graet, the FFF’s then-president, “I cannot play for people who think I’m a monkey.” Ultimately he decided to continue playing for France “because it is a message to the young generation to say, ‘We are stronger than that.’”

There was also a death threat spray-painted on his mural in Bondy in January 2022, seemingly in response to a slight dip in PSG’s results. They still won Ligue 1 by a 15-point margin that season, with Mbappe scoring 39 goals in all competitions. But, with European success still elusive, dissatisfaction is rarely far from the surface.

At times in recent years PSG has resembled a circus — or at very least a soap opera. Mbappe has called it a “divisive club” that “can attract gossip”.

He flourished alongside Neymar for a time, but the longer they spent in the same forward line and the same dressing room, the more difficult their relationship became. Messi’s arrival in 2021 was an extra complication, on the field and off it.

Mbappe’s relationship with PSG has been strained. There has been a long-running dispute over the club’s use of his image for commercial gain. “PSG is a big club and a big family,” he said last year, irked that an interview with him had been used as a voiceover in video to promote season tickets. “But it is certainly not Kylian Saint-Germain.”

At times it looks that way. The enormous new contract he signed in 2022 , to stay at PSG for another two years, gave him a voice to be heard by the club hierarchy when discussing football strategy. The appointment as sporting director of Campos, who backed him at Monaco, was seen as a nod to the club’s star player — though Mbappe has maintained he “will not go above the role of a footballer”.

On and off the pitch, Mbappe became the dominant personality in a team that also included Messi, Neymar and Sergio Ramos . He was scoring goals by the bucketload and earning huge sums of money in a trophy-winning team in a city he loves. But PSG couldn’t keep him happy.

To borrow a line from U2, they gave him everything he ever wanted. It wasn’t what he wanted.

It was a surprise — not least to Real Madrid — when Mbappe extended his contract at PSG in May 2022.

He had allowed his deal to run down to the final weeks, surely the prelude to a move to Spain. But no, he and his entourage spurned Madrid’s advances once again to stay with PSG, a two-year contract with the option (his option) to extend to June 2025.

The French club’s hierarchy made great play of his new contract, parading him around the Parc des Princes wearing a shirt with “Mbappe 2025” on the back.

But the following summer Mbappe informed the PSG leadership he would not be renewing his deal to 2025, let alone beyond. That put the club in a situation where, unless they cashed in on him immediately, they were at risk of losing him on a free transfer at the end of this season.

PSG were willing to sell him to Madrid for the right price. But matters were complicated when Al Hilal offered a world-record €300m (£259m, $332m) transfer fee to try to take him to Saudi Arabia and, on top of that, a reported €1million-a-week salary.

PSG accepted the transfer bid, but Mbappe said he was not willing even to discuss the transfer — his heart and mind set, seemingly, on joining Real Madrid as a free agent this summer.

He began the new campaign as persona non grata at PSG , omitted from the club’s pre-season tour of Japan and South Korea and again when the Ligue 1 programme began against Lorient. But he was then reinstated to the squad — the club accepting the futility of a stand-off — and embarked on what has so far been his most prolific season at PSG, averaging more than a goal a game.

But the longer he has stayed at PSG, the more he has looked like a player ready for a new challenge. He spoke last summer of PSG having hit a “glass ceiling” in the Champions League — beaten once in the final, once in the semi-final and four times in the round of 16 since he joined the club — but perhaps something similar could be said of his own career. As well as winning the Ligue 1 title six times (once at Monaco), he has been the league’s player of the year in four of the past five seasons and leading scorer in each of the last five.

It comes back to something which, according to “Je M’Appelle Kylian Mbappe”, his mother said when he was weighing up whether to join PSG or Madrid in the summer of 2017: “You’re a genius at football, Kylian. Aren’t you going to be bored in Ligue 1?”

Bored is the wrong word. But the dream has always been Real Madrid.

He will likely be moving to Spain at the age of 25, a little later than he had sometimes hoped but entirely in keeping with the career path he outlined as a child: first Clairefontaine, then Ligue 1, then Real Madrid.

It was similar with Cristiano Ronaldo when he, aged 24, moved there in 2009. It had seemed like Ronaldo’s destiny for two or three years before that — every summer a drawn-out transfer saga — but the timing was perfect. He had already won his first Champions League title and Ballon d’Or at Manchester United, but it was in Madrid that he joined the ranks of the sport’s immortals, a nine-year spell in which he scored 450 goals, becoming the club’s all-time top scorer, and winning both the Champions League and Ballon d’Or on another four occasions.

Campos sees parallels between the two. “They are the same,” he said. “They are born to be champions, to be stars, to win the most beautiful things.”

He told France Football as far back as 2018 that Mbappe “at 60 per cent (of his potential) is already one of the best in the world. Imagine him at 100 per cent. You imagine. He will be amazing.”

Even now, there is still a feeling that Mbappe has another level he can reach when he surely lands in Madrid: the way Ronaldo did, the way Jude Bellingham has done since his arrival from Borussia Dortmund last summer.

Not every world-class player has what it takes to thrive at the Bernabeu and to live with the intensity of a spotlight that turns footballers into superstars.

But it is the spotlight Mbappe has craved his whole life since looking up at his bedroom walls and wanting to emulate Ronaldo — and become not just a great footballer but the leader and the face of a new sporting generation.

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" Liberté, Égalité, Mbappé ." Few athletes have managed to capture the hearts and imaginations of a nation as Kylian Mbappé has done for France. In fact, many fans have playfully re-branded the country's slogan to emphasise their love for their brightest star.

Kylian Mbappé was born in Bondy, a suburb of Paris, in December 1998 to Wilfried Mbappé , a football coach of Cameroonian origin, and Fayza Lamari , a professional handball player of Algerian descent.

Kylian's footballing talent was evident from a very young age, and he quickly gained a reputation as a prodigious young talent. Mbappé began his career with the local club AS Bondy before making a move to Ligue 1 side AS Monaco in 2013. There, he made his professional debut at the young age of 16 .

The Frenchman swiftly made a mark with the southern French club. His lightning-quick pace (he has been measured as fast as 38 km/h) and goal-scoring ability played a pivotal role in Monaco's unlikely Ligue 1 title triumph in 2017 and their journey to the UEFA Champions League semifinals .

Kylian Mbappe's Rise to Stardom at PSG

In August 2017, Mbappé attracted interest from several top European clubs, including Real Madrid. However, he opted to join Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) on an initial loan deal, which later became a permanent transfer for a reported fee of €180 million , making him the second most expensive player in the history of the sport.

At PSG, the striker continued to excel and break records. He earned multiple Ligue 1 Player of the Year awards and became the club's all-time leading goal-scorer , surpassing legends like Zlatan Ibrahimovic , Edinson Cavani , and Pedro Pauleta .

In the summer of 2022, as Mbappé's contract with PSG neared its expiration, he came close to joining European giants Real Madrid . However, in the closing days of the transfer window, he pledged his future to PSG and signed a new contract, reaffirming his connection with the French fans.

"I am convinced that here I can continue to grow within a club that gives itself all the means to perform at the highest level. I am also very happy to be able to continue to evolve in France, the country where I was born, grew up, and flourished," he remarked upon signing the new contract.

The love affair with the French public faced major upheaval in the summer of 2023 when PSG listed Mbappé on the transfer market, a year before his contract was set to expire. The striker trained separately from the first team as interest from Saudi Arabia emerged.

However, the 24-year-old declined to entertain the Middle East offers and could remain in the French capital until the end of his contract in the summer of 2024.

Shining with the French national team

In addition to his impressive club career in the French league, the 1.78m striker has shone for the national team since his debut in March 2017 at 18. He played a crucial role in guiding France to victory in the 2018 FIFA World Cup , scoring four goals during the tournament, including one in the final against Croatia. His performances earned him the FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award .

The French ace played a pivotal role in his team's quest to retain the World Cup in the winter of 2022 in Qatar, only narrowly falling short in the final against Lionel Messi's Argentina. Mbappé scored three goals in the final, earning him the Golden Boot Award after finishing as the tournament's top scorer with eight goals.

Appointed French national team captain in 2023, he may be on the brink of participating in the Paris Olympics in his hometown, a tournament he has always dreamed of being a part of.

"It was when I watched the Olympic Games in London 2012 that I realised the importance of this global event. The Games are 'THE' reference in sports, the absolute Holy Grail that every athlete aspires to compete in and experience at least once in their lifetime," he expressed in an October 2021 interview with L'Equipe newspaper.

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• FIFA World Cup 2018 winner
• UEFA Nations League 2021 winner
• FIFA World Cup 2018 Best Young Player Award
• UEFA Nations League 2021 Top Scorer: 2 Goals
• UEFA Nations League 2021 Top Assist: 2 Assists

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• French Ligue 1 Champion x6: 2017 (Monaco), 2018 (PSG), 2019 (PSG), 2020 (PSG), 2022 (PSG), 2023 (PSG)
• French National Cup x3: 2018 (PSG), 2020 (PSG), 2021 (PSG)
• French League Cup x2: 2018 (PSG), 2020 (PSG)
• French Community Shield x4: 2019 (PSG), 2020 (PSG), 2021 (PSG), 2023 (PSG)
• French Ligue 1 Player of the Year x4: 2019 (PSG), 2021(PSG), 2022 (PSG), 2023 (PSG)
• French Ligue 1 Top Scorer x5: 2019 (33 goals - PSG), 2020 (18 - PSG), 2021 (27 - PSG), 2022 (28 - PSG) and 2023 (29 - PSG)
• French Ligue 1 Top Assist 2022: (17 Assists - PSG)

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Kylian Mbappé has come an awfully long way since making his UEFA Champions League debut as a fresh-faced 17-year-old in September 2016. UEFA.com charts the Paris and France striker's rise.

Mbappé's goals and appearances

International: 66 appearances, 36 goals UEFA club competition: 60 appearances, 40 goals Domestic competition: 239 appearances, 178 goals

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Mbappé's claims to fame

Monaco • Mbappé was ten days shy of his 16th birthday when he played his first game in UEFA competition, coming on for the final 30 minutes of a 3-1 home loss to Zenit in the UEFA Youth League .

• A year and a day later, he made his debut in a senior UEFA club competition, being introduced for the last 34 minutes of a 4-1 UEFA Europa League group stage loss at Tottenham . His side were already 3-0 down when Mbappé came off the bench, but he did provide the assist for their goal.

• UEFA.com first wrote about him in February 2016, when he was our 'Weekly Wonderkid' , quoting his father and manager Wilfried as saying: "He's more than passionate [about football] – he's crazy. I work in football and he almost puts me off it because he's always into it 24/7. He watches everything; he can watch four or five matches in a row."

• Did not score in his first three Champions League games (hardly surprising as he had just 25 minutes of playing time in total), making his breakthrough at the fourth time of asking 40 minutes into a 5-3 UEFA Champions League round of 16 defeat at Manchester City .

• Ended that 2016/17 Champions League campaign with six goals as Monaco reached the semi-finals, and struck 15 Ligue 1 goals in 29 appearances.

Paris • Scored his tenth Champions League goal in a 3-1 defeat at Bayern München in December 2017, becoming the youngest player to reach that mark at the age of 18 years 350 days.

• Mbappé reached new heights in 2018/19 with a career-high 33 league goals in only 29 games as Paris stormed to the title. He was voted Ligue 1 Player of the Year after topping the goalscoring charts, ending 11 clear of the pack.

• He has scored two UEFA Champions League hat-tricks, both of them away from home; in a 5-0 win at Club Brugge in October 2019 and in a 4-1 success at Barcelona in the 2020/21 round of 16 . He scored a penalty in the return leg of that tie to eclipse Lionel Messi as the youngest player to hit 25 goals in the UEFA Champions League, aged 22 years 80 days, though Erling Haaland has since broken that record.

• Signed a new contract with Paris in May 2022 having risen to second place behind Edinson Cavani in the list of the club's record goalscorers. He became the third player to finish as Ligue 1's leading marksman four seasons in a row but the first to finish as both top scorer and top assist provider (17) in top-flight history.

• By the end of the 2021/22 season, Mbappé had won five Ligue 1 titles (one with Monaco, four with Paris) and three French Cups (all with Paris), as well as helping the capital side reach their first UEFA Champions League final in 2020, where Paris lost 1-0 to Bayern in Lisbon .

• Eclipsed Cavani as the club's all-time top scorer in European competition with his 31st goal in 48 Champions League games for Paris during the 1-1 draw at home to Benfica in October 2022 .

• Scored five goals in France's successful 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship campaign in Germany. Team-mate Jean-Kévin Augustin outscored him with six, but both players were picked out as ones to watch by UEFA.com's editorial team on site .

• Became the second youngest player ever to feature for France's senior side when he made his debut against Luxembourg in March 2017. His maiden international goal came in a 4-0 success against the Netherlands five months later.

• Another record fell as he became the youngest French goalscorer in World Cup history at the age of 19. Joined Pelé as the only teenager to score in a World Cup final as France beat Croatia 4-2 to win the 2018 edition and was voted Best Young Player of the tournament.

• Tasted further international glory when France scooped the 2020/21 UEFA Nations League but Les Bleus were unable to retain the World Cup in 2022, losing the final to Argentina on penalties after a thrilling 3-3 draw. Mbappé was the tournament's top scorer with eight goals and became only the second player in history to score a hat-trick in the final (after England's Geoff Hurst in 1966). His four World Cup final goals (across two finals) is an all-time record.

What he says

Mbappé has spoken to UEFA.com on several occasions, and famously allowed us to sit in on a conversation between him and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in the run-up to UEFA EURO 2020. Here's what he had to say about his career so far when we spoke to him in spring 2021 :

On his motivation : "Every time I step onto the pitch, I tell myself I'm the best, and yet I've played on the same pitch as [Lionel] Messi and Cristiano [Ronaldo], and they're better players than me! They've done a billion more things than me, but in my head I always tell myself that I'm the best because then you're not putting limits on yourself and you're trying to give the best version of yourself."

On winning the World Cup in 2018 : "Normally, winning a World Cup is the pinnacle of your career. It's something you work for at your club: you spend a few years there and you get to 27, 28, and the World Cup comes around when you're at your peak. I was lucky enough to get stuck into it straight away and win it at 19, and that's going to help me for when there'll be other tests."

On his happy place : "For me, the Champions League holds a very important place. We've lost at different stages, we've suffered. If I win it, there'll be a lot of emotion. Even though the World Cup is the Holy Grail, for me, at club level, the Champions League is the best. The Champions League is, as the song says, for 'les meilleures équipes' (the best teams)."

On his ambitions : "I've never said I was going to be the greatest player in history, but I've never put limits on myself. If I get to a certain level, I'm not going to stop myself by putting a barrier up, like: 'If I get there, then that's it, that's my maximum.' No, I try to push my boundaries and see where that takes me. For the moment, it's working well for me, and I'll keep doing that until the end of my career."

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After signing a reported $250 million contract to stay with Paris St.-Germain, Kylian Mbappé sat down with The New York Times to discuss his past, his present and his future ambitions.

Here’s what he told us →

‘He Wanted Me to Stay’

Mbappé says even he was convinced he would join Real Madrid this summer. Among those who lobbied him to stay was President Emmanuel Macron of France.

Here’s Mbappé on their meeting.

‘I’m Going to Try to Win Both’

Such is Mbappé’s ambition that he says he is not willing to choose between two big priorities: winning a second World Cup with France or a first Champions League title with P.S.G.

He wants to try to win both, something he says is a matter of “mentality.”

‘I’m Going to Stay a Player’

Mbappé’s new contract has given him a new status and importance at P.S.G. But that also gave rise to reports that he now has the power to hire and fire coaches, or otherwise shape the direction of the club and its roster.

That’s just not true, he told us.

‘Maybe Even the Best Club in the World’

Mbappé had posters of Real Madrid stars on his wall as a boy and trained with the club at 14. The club and the player continue to exert a magnetic pull on each other.

‘It Was Always Messi or Ronaldo’

While stressing that team goals remain his priority, Mbappé can rattle off the number of world player of the year awards won by stars like Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. He believes it is now his time to lay claim to those honors.

‘I Was Just a Young Guy Who Wanted to Play Playstation’

Mbappé has been groomed for stardom since he was a boy. But that has meant sacrificing much of his childhood and being thrust into a man’s world while still a boy.

It is here he has some regrets.

Read the full article from our interview with Kylian Mbappé here .

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Kylian Mbappe is one of the world’s biggest soccer talents, already at his young age he has won a FIFA World Cup, is the face of French soccer and Ligue 1. Mbappe comes from a strong soccer family and today is one of the most electric and one of the world’s most expensive soccer players at PSG.

Kylian Mbappe is a professional French soccer player who plays the forward position at Paris Saint-Germain and France’s national team. Mbappe is known for his speed, dribbling, and one-on-one skills. He began his career at French club Monaco before a high profile move to PSG, where he has stayed since. On the French national team, Mbappe has already won the FIFA World Cup and UEFA Nations League titles.

• His full name is Kylian Adesanmi Mbappe Lottin.
• He was born on December 20, 1998, in Paris, France.
• He is the son of the Cameroonian Wilfried Mbappe and Algerian Fayza Lamari.
• His father was a professional soccer coach and his mother is a lawyer and former handball player.
• Mbappe’s dad is also his agent, much like his teammate Neymar. 
• Mbappe has two brothers. An adopted brother Jirès Kembo Ekoko and Ethan Mbappé, both are soccer players. 
• Mbappe’s nickname is Donatello, it was given by his PSG teammates.

Kylian Mbappe Lottin grew up in Paris, France, and while he went to a private Catholic school in the French town of Bondy, many of his teachers claimed him to be a talented but unruly student. Mbappe grew up watching AC Milan as his family were fans of the historic Serie A side, while he was a fan of Real Madrid. Later Mbappe would reveal he loved watching Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo Nazario and Cristiano Ronaldo.

As a boy Mbappe played for AS Bondy, a team coached by his father. At Bondy the future French World Cup winner was praised for his dribbling and finishing skills. Mbappe also played on teams that were much older than his age group and his talent was undeniable.

Mbappe’s great talent eventually had him move to the Clairefontaine academy, where his skilled play and impressive explosiveness caught the eye of clubs like Real Madrid, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City and Bayern Munich. Mbappe was asked to train with the Real Madrid U-12 and visit the club. At 14, he was given a trial at Chelsea but eventually chose to start his career at Monaco.

After signing his first pro contract with Ligue 1 side Monaco, Mbappe began his career at 16-years-of-age, and would score his first pro goal in a 3–1 win over Troyes at the age of 17. Mbappe began showcasing his great talents in his second season at the club scoring 26 goals in 44 games. He recorded his first hat trick against Rennes in the Coupe de la Ligue round of 16 in a 7-0 result. 

At 18 years of age, Mbappe scored his first Ligue 1 hat trick against Metz, becoming the youngest first team player to score a hat trick since 2005. Mbappe showcased his talents in that season’s UEFA Champions League, especially in a match against Manchester City. In the end he would help Monaco win Ligue 1 for 2016-17 and finish runner up in the Coupe de France.

Signing with PSG 

Entering the 2017-18 season, Paris Saint-Germain saw the striker’s unquestionable talent and were able to get him on loan with an option to buy. Mbappe would join a team full of stars, including Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani and Brazilian Neymar. That first season with PSG the gifted French forward would win yet another Ligue 1 crown. 

The following season PSG activated Mbappe’s purchase option and he became one of the most expensive teenagers, as well as the second most expensive player in the world, as his transfer fee was in the range of €145 million plus €35 million in add-ons. Mbappe’s numbers only continued to improve at PSG with his best season coming in 2020-21: he scored 42 goals in 47 games.

A 2021/22 season full of rumors

Last year Mbappe was the subject of a lot of transfer talks to Real Madrid as he was coming up on his contract year. Despite the French club signing Lionel Messi, and having Neymar and Mauro Icardi, it was Mbappe who carried much of the attacking weight at PSG. Mbappe would finish the season with 39 goals in 46 games. 

In his 5 years at PSG, the French superstar has scored 171 goals in 217 games. Mbappe has helped PSG win 11 championships and came in second in the UEFA Champions League in 2019-20.

Despite a huge push by Real Madrid to sign him in the summer, Mbappe decided to stay at PSG until 2025 by signing a new contract. On France’s national team, the striker is the nation’s biggest star.

Kylian Mbappe earned his first cap for France in 2017 against Luxembourg, and scored his first goal on his fifth cap against the Netherlands in the Stade de France. The 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia it was Mbappe’s coming out party.

Mbappe and the French National team

France would become World Cup champions in 2018, and on their way to soccer’s biggest prize, Mbappe scored against Peru, played his best match against Argentina in the round of 16 scoring two goals, and added one in the exciting final against Croatia. 

After winning the FIFA World Cup, France would go on to win the UEFA Nations League 2020-21, where Mbappe scored four goals. In a total of only 57 appearances for France, Mbappe has scored 27 international goals. The striker has collected a total of 14 titles between his career with Monaco, France, and PSG.

Mbappe is reported to earn a salary of roughly 20.7 million euros annually . His new PSG contract has raised his salary tremendously and it also coincides with new sponsorship deals that increase his net worth. 

The PSG star also earns around $13 million yearly from endorsements with Nike, Video Game company EA Sports and Hublot. For the 2022 World Cup, Mbappe’s public image will only increase as he is one of the faces of the tournament.

As of June 2022, Mbappe became an investor and ambassador for the NFT fantasy sport platform Sorare. He is also a partner in the Sports agency WME, and he founded Zebra Valley , a content creation agency that focuses on sports, music, art and many other topics.

Despite his young age, the French forward is one of the most decorated soccer players in his age group. Having won the World Cup already, he has dominated Ligue 1 with both Monaco and PSG. Here is an overview of some of his individual achievements. 

• UEFA European Under-19 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2016
• UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Year: 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22
• UNFP Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19
• UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21,2021–22 
• UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month: April 2017, March 2018, August 2018, February 2019, February 2021, August 2021, February 2022 
• UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21
• UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2021–22
• FIFA FIFPro World11: 2018, 2019
• Golden Boy Award: 2017
• FIFA World Cup Best Young Player Award: 2018
• FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2018
• Kopa Trophy: 2018
• IFFHS Men's World Team: 2018, 2021
• French Player of the Year: 2018, 2019 
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2018 
• Ligue 1 Top Goalscorer: 2018–19, 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
• Ligue 1 Top assist provider: 2021–22
• Globe Soccer Best Player of the Year: 2021
• Onze de Bronze: 2019
• UEFA Nations League Finals Golden Boot: 2021

Conclusions

Mbappe is clearly one of the up and coming soccer players today, he along with Manchester City’s Erling Haaland are poised to be the soccer stars of the next decade. They will surely take the place left behind by Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. 

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19-year-old soccer star Kylian Mbappé just helped win France the World Cup — here's what you need to know about him

• 19-year-old Kylian  Mbappé  became only the second teenager in history to score in a World Cup final on Sunday as he helped France beat Croatia 4-2.
• Mbappé has been groomed for soccer greatness since he was a child , coming from a family of athletes in the Paris suburbs.
• Brazil legend Pel é acknowledged Mbappé's historic feat on Sunday.

Kylian  Mbappé helped France clinch its second-ever World Cup title on Sunday, scoring the fourth goal for France in its 4-2 win over Croatia.

It was one of  four goals the young star scored in the 2018 World Cup for France. Mbappé also led Les Bleus to their early victory over Peru, 1-0, and scored twice against Argentina in the round of 16.

Some are just getting to know the teenager, but the truth is 19-year-old  Mbappé has already had quite an impressive career, starting when he was a babe.

Growing up in the northern Parisian suburb of Bondy,  Mbappé practically lived at the local soccer club, where soccer pros asserted he was a star from day one. 

" He was here as a baby when his father was a player and a coach," AS Bondy President Atmane Airouche told the BBC .  "He was always here and learning about football, even as a toddler."

Mbappé's dad Wilfried, originally from Cameroon, is a soccer coach who started working with Mbappé when he was just a tot. His mother, Algerian-born Fayza Lamari, was also an impressive athlete, playing Division 1 handball in Bondy in the late 1990s and early 2000s. 

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Mbappé's own generation is no exception to the sporty family tradition. His  adopted older brother, Jirès Kembo,  plays professionally for Turkey , and his little brother Ethan, seven years younger than Kylian, is a member of Paris Saint-Germain's under-12 team .

A teenage dream

Former coach Antonio Riccardi said Mbappé  was already leaps and bounds above the other kids when he started working with him at age six: "Kylian could do much more than the other children," Riccardi told the BBC. "His dribbling was already fantastic and he was much faster than the others."

By age 12,  Mbappé was training at France's premiere Clairefontaine football center. At 14, he was playing with Monaco's professional club, even before completing his high school diploma at age 17. 

From Monaco,  Mbappé moved to the Paris Saint-Germain club this summer, becoming the  most expensive teenager the soccer world has ever seen. It cost the team a whopping 180 million euros (more than $210 million USD), bonuses not included, to seal the deal with  Mbappé , according to ESPN .

Mbappé made history on Sunday, becoming just one of two teenage players ever to score in a World Cup final. The other, Brazilian legend Pel é,  played in the 1958 final at age 17. He took Sunday's news in stride, writing on Twitter that "If Kylian keeps equalling my records like this, I may have to dust my boots off again..."

The young star is part of a new crop of players on the French national team this year. And he is not the only one of them who hails from the Parisian suburbs. The gritty, concrete blocks of the northern "banlieue" made headlines as scenes of angry riots in 2005, and the largely minority, working-class neighborhoods are still known as pockets around the city where unemployment and violence can remain high. Residents argue that life in the suburbs is still not equal .

But at least eight of the 23 players on the French World Cup team were born and raised in the banlieue, according to a recent count by  The New York Times . 

Around Paris, kids proudly wear  Mbappé jerseys, and odes to him are emblazoned in ads on the Stade de France: 

—Alexandra Ma (@AlexandraMa15) July 15, 2018

After he won on Sunday, Mbappé said this is only the beginning.

"I want to do even better things," he told reporters , in French. "But being world champion is a good start." 

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Kylian Mbappé Lottin (born December 20, 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the France national team. Regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is known for his exceptional dribbling, speed, and finishing.

Kylian Mbappé Biography

Early life and career.

Mbappe was born in Paris and raised in Bondy, a suburb with a working-class, mostly immigrant population. His father, Wilfried, is originally from Cameroon and is a football coach and his agent. His mother, Fayza Lamari, is of Algerian Kabyle origin and was a former handball player.

Mbappé started playing football at the age of six for AS Bondy, the local club where his father was a coach. His exceptional talent was quickly recognized, and at the age of 11, he joined the Clairefontaine academy, the French national football academy.

In 2015, at the age of 16, Kylian Mbappe made his professional debut for Monaco. He quickly established himself as a key player for the club, scoring 26 goals in 60 appearances in his first two seasons. In 2017, he helped Monaco win the Ligue 1 title and reach the Champions League semi-final.

Rise to Stardom

In 2017, at the age of 18, Mbappé signed for Paris Saint-Germain for a transfer fee of €180 million, making him the second-most expensive player of all time and the most expensive teenager. He has since become a key player for PSG, winning four Ligue 1 titles, three Coupe de France titles, and two Coupe de la Ligue titles.

In 2018, Mbappé played a starring role for France in the World Cup, scoring four goals and helping his team win the tournament. He became the first teenager since Pelé to score in a World Cup final.

Mbappé has continued to excel at the international level, scoring 36 goals in 63 appearances for France. He is the captain of the national team and is expected to lead them to success in the coming years.

Playing Style

Mbappé is a versatile forward who can play on either wing or through the center. He is known for his incredible pace, dribbling skills, and finishing ability. He is also a very intelligent player who is able to read the game and make quick decisions. Kylian Mbappe and the World Cup: A Prodigy’s Ascent to Footballing Royalty

Kylian Mbappé’s name and the World Cup are forever intertwined. His journey on the global stage has been nothing short of extraordinary, marked by record-breaking achievements, breathtaking displays of skill, and a relentless pursuit of greatness.

Early Brilliance and a Teenage Dream (2018)

Kylian Mbappé’s World Cup debut at the age of 19 in 2018 was nothing short of electrifying. He announced his arrival on the grandest stage with electrifying pace, dazzling dribbles, and an unerring eye for goal.

• He became the youngest French player to score at a World Cup, breaking a record that had stood for 60 years.
• He scored four goals throughout the tournament, including a crucial strike in the final against Croatia, making him the second-youngest player ever to score in a World Cup final after the legendary Pelé.
• His performances earned him the prestigious FIFA Young Player Award, solidifying his status as a rising star in world football.

Golden Boot and Hat-Trick Heroics (2022)

Despite France falling short of defending their title in 2022, Kylian Mbappé once again dazzled on the world stage. He was a force to be reckoned with, showcasing his matured game and leadership qualities.

• He won the Golden Boot award, scoring a staggering eight goals throughout the tournament, including a stunning hat-trick in the final against Argentina.
• His hat-trick, the first in a World Cup final since Sir Geoff Hurst in 1966, was a display of individual brilliance and fighting spirit, even though France ultimately lost in a penalty shootout.
• He was awarded the Silver Ball, recognizing him as the second-best player of the tournament.

Impact of Kylian Mbappé

Kylian Mbappé’s World Cup journey is not just about individual accolades; it’s about inspiring a generation of young footballers and leaving an indelible mark on the sport.

• He has become a global icon, a symbol of athletic excellence and youthful exuberance.
• His performances have injected fresh energy into French football, rekindling hope and pride in the national team.
• He has shown that age is just a number when it comes to achieving greatness on the biggest stage.

Looking Ahead

With two World Cups already under his belt and a seemingly endless potential for further exploits, Mbappé’s World Cup story is far from over.

• He is poised to lead France in the 2026 World Cup in North America, aiming to add another championship title to his already impressive collection.
• His hunger for goals, his relentless drive to improve, and his infectious enthusiasm promise to keep fans around the world enthralled for years to come.

Kylian Mbappé’s World Cup journey is a testament to his talent, dedication, and unwavering passion for the beautiful game. He is modern-day footballing legend in the making, and his impact on the World Cup stage is sure to be felt for generations to come.

Kylian Mbappé’s Achievements

Mbappé is already one of the most successful footballers in the world, and he is still only 25 years old. He has the potential to become one of the greatest players of all time. He is also a role model for young people around the world, and his success shows that anything is possible if you set your mind to it.

Here are some of Kylian Mbappé’s achievements:

• Ligue 1 Champion (5 times)
• Coupe de France Champion (3 times)
• Coupe de la Ligue Champion (2 times)
• Champions League Runner-up (1 time)
• FIFA World Cup Champion (1 time)
• Golden Boot winner at the 2022 FIFA World Cup
• Kopa Trophy winner (2017)
• Raymond Kopa Trophy winner (2017)
• Golden Boy award winner (2017)
• France Football Ballon d’Or nominee (4 times)

Mbappé is an exceptional footballer who has achieved great things at a young age. He is a role model for young people around the world and is sure to continue to achieve great things in his career.

Net Worth of Kylian Mbappé

According to Celebrity Net Worth , Kylian Mbappé, possesses a net worth of $180 million and is recognized as one of the highest-earning soccer players globally. At the age of 19, Kylian accumulated approximately $25 million from both his salary and endorsement deals. Presently, he receives a base salary of $53 million annually, along with an additional $10 million from endorsements, resulting in a total pre-tax income of $63 million per year.

Social Media of Kylian Mbappé

          View this post on Instagram                       A post shared by Kylian Mbappé (@k.mbappe)

Une soirée mémorable. 🙏🏽🇫🇷 @equipedefrance pic.twitter.com/7AYLWcaCxL — Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) November 18, 2023

Un immense honneur pour moi d’avoir eu la chance de te côtoyer et croiser la route de ta carrière légendaire. Un homme en or avec des précieux conseils que je garderai avec moi toute ma vie. Bonne route et surtout MERCI 🇮🇹👑 @gianluigibuffon pic.twitter.com/u3x9X2ARHl — Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) August 2, 2023

The king of football has left us but his legacy will never be forgotten. RIP KING 💔👑… pic.twitter.com/F55PrcM2Ud — Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) December 29, 2022

Kylian Mbappé is currently 25 years old.

Kylian Mbappé is renowned for his exceptional speed and acceleration during soccer matches. His impressive abilities have been measured at a speed of 36 km/h (22.4 mph), establishing him as one of the swiftest players globally. In a notable instance during the 2018 World Cup, Mbappé managed to cover a distance of 64 meters in just 6.7 seconds, surpassing four defenders in the process.

Kylian Mbappé resides in an opulent suburban residence located in Paris, France. In 2018, he acquired the property for €6.5 million ($7.7 million). The mansion boasts six bedrooms, a swimming pool, a cinema room, a spa, and a gym, providing a lavish living experience for Mbappé.

Kylian Mbappé is known by multiple nicknames, including “KM7”, “Donatello”, and “The Second Prince of Monaco”. Among these, the most widely recognized is “Donatello”, which was affectionately bestowed upon him by his former teammate Benjamin Mendy. Mendy drew a resemblance between Mbappé and the character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Mbappé has embraced this nickname and even features a turtle emoji on his Instagram bio as a nod to it.

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