Kylian Mbappé French Athlete From Paris

Early life

Kylian Mbappé was born on 20 December 1998 in Paris and grew up in Bondy, a suburb in the northeast of the capital. His mother, Fayza Lamari, is a former handball player who also acts as his agent. He began playing organised football in Bondy as a small child and later moved to the Clairefontaine academy. Several leading European clubs showed interest in him during his early teens, and he trained with some of them before choosing the youth academy at Monaco in 2013. He also learned Spanish as a teenager and became fluent.

Career

Mbappé made his first-team debut for Monaco in December 2015 at the age of sixteen, becoming the youngest player in the club's history to appear for the senior side. He scored his first goal in February 2016. In the 2016–17 season he scored 26 goals in 44 matches across all competitions, and Monaco won the Ligue 1 title. The run included two goals against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League quarter-finals.

In August 2017 he moved to Paris Saint-Germain, first on loan with an obligation to buy, in a deal worth 180 million euros. The fee was the highest ever paid for a teenager. At PSG he won six Ligue 1 titles, four Coupes de France and two Coupes de la Ligue, and he finished as the league's top scorer in six seasons in a row. In 2020 the club reached the Champions League final, which it lost to Bayern Munich. He became the club's all-time leading scorer in March 2023, when he reached his 201st goal for PSG. In 2023 he announced that he would not extend his contract, and he left after the 2023–24 season, ending with a win in the Coupe de France final.

Real Madrid announced his signing on a five-year contract in June 2024. He scored on his debut in the UEFA Super Cup against Atalanta, a match Madrid won 2–0. In his first season he scored 31 league goals in 34 games, which earned him the Pichichi Trophy and the European Golden Shoe. He took the Pichichi again in the 2025–26 season and also finished as top scorer in the Champions League with 15 goals.

For France, he played at under-17 and under-19 level and won the 2016 European Under-19 Championship. He was called up to the senior team in March 2017 and scored his first international goal that August. At the 2018 World Cup he scored four goals, including one in the final against Croatia, and France won the tournament. He became the second teenager after Pelé to score in a World Cup final. In October 2021 he scored the winning goal against Spain in the Nations League final.

At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar he scored a hat-trick in the final against Argentina, which France lost on penalties. He took the Golden Boot with eight goals. Mbappé was named France captain in March 2023. At the 2026 World Cup he scored 10 goals, won the Golden Boot for the second time, and became the tournament's all-time leading scorer with 22 goals. He is also France's top scorer in international matches.

Recognition

Mbappé won the Golden Boy award in 2017 and the inaugural Kopa Trophy in 2018. He received the World Cup Best Young Player Award in 2018, was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour the same year, and won the European Golden Shoe for the 2024–25 season. He was named Ligue 1 Player of the Year five times, and he has appeared in the FIFPRO World 11 six times. In 2023 he finished third in the Ballon d'Or voting and was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people.

Personal life

Mbappé is fluent in French, English and Spanish. After the 2018 World Cup he gave his prize money to a French charity that supports people with disabilities, saying he did not wish to be paid for representing his country. In 2022 he founded the production company Zebra Valley, and through an investment vehicle he holds stakes in several companies and has owned the Ligue 2 club Caen since 2024.