Kylian Mbappe – 10 facts to know on his birthday
Kylian Mbappe – 10 facts to know on his birthday : Less than 48 hours after making history by becoming only the second player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, French football prodigy Kylian Mbappe turns 24 today. After Argentina defeated France in Qatar, he was denied his chance to become the youngest two-time winner since Pele in 1962. With eight goals overall, Mbappe won the competition’s Golden Boot.
The following list of 10 facts about Kylian Mbappe includes:
- With 36 goals, Mbappe has moved to sixth place on France’s all-time scoring record, one goal behind Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema, whose absence in Qatar was made up for by Mbappe’s brilliance.
- He is tied for sixth place all-time with Brazilian great Pele after scoring 12 goals in 14 World Cup games. After Vava, who scored in Brazil’s victories in 1958 and 1962, he is just the second player to score in back-to-back World Cup finals.
- He was brought up in Bondy, a suburb of Paris, where he was born on December 20, 1998, to an immigrant family. His mother is an Algerian Kabyle, but his father, who serves as both Mbappé’s agent and football coach, is originally from Cameroon. She enjoyed playing handball.
- The love for sneakers that Mbappe has is widely known. He would plead his mother to get him the newest runners when he was a little child. “I used to weep to get my mother to alter her mind when she refused to purchase me a certain model. I went on to something new because sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t,” he told Hypebeast in 2018.
- Mbappe, a forward for Ligue 1 team Paris Saint-Germain, has scored 253 goals in 363 appearances for club and nation, considerably surpassing Messi and Ronaldo’s totals at the same age.
- When Mbappe was five years old, he began playing football in Bondy. He used to observe the team’s tactical meetings as a youngster with his father, who was then the youth coach at his local club AS Bondy. Consequently, he quickly mastered the ability to assimilate tactical knowledge.
- Mbappe had pictures of Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo all over his room when he was a little child because he admired him.
- Mbappe gave a children’s charity all of his profits at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. According to reports, he took home around $500,000 USD from the competition.
- Mbappe gave a children’s charity all of his FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia winnings. He allegedly made close to $500,000 USD from the competition.
- He was anticipated to earn a record-breaking $128 million per year when he was only 23 years old and on Forbes’ list of the highest-paid football players in the world.
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