Kylian Mbappe is just the second player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final.
France football star Kylian Mbappe marks his 24th birthday on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after he created history by becoming just the second player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final. His bid to become the youngest two-time winner since Pele in 1962 ended in heartbreak in Qatar after Argentina defeated France. Mbappe finished as the tournament’s Golden Boot winner with eight goals.
Here are 10 things to know about Kylian Mbappe:
- Mbappe is already up to sixth on France
- He has scored 12 World Cup goals in 14 matches and is level with Brazil legend Pele in sixth on the all-time list.
- Mbappe, who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain has scored 253 times in 363 games for club and country, a tally that far exceeds those of Messi and Ronaldo at the same age.
- Born in an immigrant family on December 20, 1998, in Paris, he was raised in Bondy, in the city’s suburbs. While his father, Mbappé’s agent and a football coach, is originally from the African country of Cameroon, his mother is of Algerian Kabyle origin. She was a handball player.
- Mbappe started his football
- As a young boy, Mbapper idolised Portugese star Cristiano Ronaldo and had his posters all over his room at home.
- At 23, he was on the Forbes’ list of world’s highest-paid football players and was expected to get a record $128 million in annual earnings.
- Mbappe donated all his earnings from FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia 2018 to a children’s charity. He reportedly earned close to half a million US dollars from the tournament.
- Mbappe’s love for sneakers is well-known. As a young boy, he would plead with his mother to get him the latest runners. “When my mom didn’t want to buy me a certain model, I used to cry to change her mind. Sometimes it worked, sometimes not, so I moved on to something else,” he told Hypebeast in 2018
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