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Ten Things You Might Not Have Known About Kylian Mbappe
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- By current rating, the French forward Kylian Mbappe has dethroned his Paris Saint-Germain team-mate Lionel Messi in Forbes’ list of the world’s richest footballers for the 2022/23 season
- He might become the world’s highest paid footballer, with an estimated earning of £115million for the 2022/23 season.
- Mbappé was 18 when he made his senior debut for France, and that was in 2017.
- Kylian Mbappe’s father’s name is Wilfrid Mbappé and from Cameroon, while his mother Fayza Lamari was born in Algeria., who was born in Algeria
- Mbappé’s earlier footballing career began at AS Bondy, coached by his father, Wilfried.
- Mbappe is a winner of many trophies including “Golden Boy” Award – 2017, the “Kopa Trophy” Award – 2018, “FIFA World Cup Best Young Player” Award – 2018, winner of “French Player of the Year” Award – 2018; “Onze de Bronze” Award – 2019, and the Ligue 1 “Young Player of the Year” Award – 2016–17, 2017-18, 2018-2019.
- You could say footall runs in the gene of the Mbappes. His father, Wilfried Mbappe in addition to being Mbappé’s agent, is a football coach, his mother, Fayza Lamari was a former handball player; his half-brother Jirès Kembo Ekoko, is a retired professional footballer who played as a striker, while his half-brother, Ethan Mbappe, played for the Paris Saint German u19 team.
- Kylian Mbappé Kylian Mbappé is the nephew of Pierre Mbappé president of the US Ivry, a French multi-sports club based in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, and which primarily known for its football team and handball team.
- Mbappe was an inspiration, a leading sensation with powering pace at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
- Kylian Mbappe is the youngest French player to score at a World Cup, and the second teenager, after Pelé, to score in a World Cup Final.
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