Kylian Mbappé Lottin is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. Considered one of the best players in the world, Mbappé is renowned for his dribbling abilities, exceptional speed, and finishing.
Born: 20 December 1998 (age 24 years), 19th arrondissement of Paris, Paris, France
Salary: 90.91 million EUR (2023)
Dates joined: 31 August 2017 (Paris Saint-Germain F.C.), 2017 (France national football team), 2015 (AS Monaco)
Height: 1.78 m
Current teams: Paris Saint-Germain F.C. (#7 / Forward), France national football team (#10 / Forward)
Parents: Fayza Lamari, Wilfried Mbappé
Weight: 73 kg
Facts
Kylian Mbappé Lottin was born on 20 December 1998
Mbappé began his senior club career in 2015 playing for Monaco, where he won the Ligue 1 title
In 2017, aged 18, Mbappé signed for Paris Saint-Germain on an eventual permanent transfer worth €180 million
At PSG he has won four Ligue 1 titles and three Coupes de France, and is the club’s second-highest all-time top goalscorer. So far.
At international level, Mbappé made his senior debut for France in 2017, at age 18
At the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Mbappé became the youngest French player to score at a World Cup, and became the second teenager, after Pelé, to score in a World Cup Final.
Geoff Hurst and Kylian Mbappé are the only men’s players to score a hat trick in a World Cup final
Only two scorers, Pelé and Kylian Mbappé, scored a World Cup finals goal as teenagers
Mbappé was named to the FIFA FIFPro World11 in 2018 and 2019
He has a younger brother, Ethan, who played for Paris Saint-Germain’s under-12 squad in 2018
At the 2022 FIFA World Cup, France finished as runners-up, with Mbappé scoring a hat-trick in the final, winning the tournament’s Golden Boot and Silver Ball
Mbappé has finished as the Ligue 1 top scorer for four seasons
Kylian Mbappé Lottin was raised in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, a commune 10.9 km from the centre of Paris
His father, Wilfried, is originally from Cameroon, and, as well as being Mbappé’s agent, is a football coach
His mother, Fayza Lamari, is of Algerian Kabyle origin and is a former handball player
Growing up, his idols were Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo Nazário, and Cristiano Ronaldo
Mbappé began his career at AS Bondy, coached by his father, Wilfried.
At age 14 he travelled to London after an invite from Chelsea, playing a match for their youth team against Charlton Athletic – boy that was a missed chance
He became Monaco’s youngest-ever first-team player aged 16 years and 347 days
On 20 February 2016, Mbappé scored his first goal for Monaco, a stoppage-time goal in a 3–1 win over Troyes; at the age of 17 years and 62 days, he became the youngest first team goalscorer in Monaco’s history
Mbappé has a sponsorship deal with sportswear and equipment supplier Nike.
His trademark goal celebration – posing with his arms folded and hands tucked under his armpits – was inspired by his younger brother Ethan who would celebrate in this manner when beating Kylian at FIFA
To date he has played 66 games for France scoring 36 goals
To date he has played 309 games in club football scoring 221 goals
Mbappe was chosen for the cover of the video game FIFA 2021.
After the World Cup in 2018, Mbappe gave all of his earnings – 400,000 euros to a children’s charity in France.
Just over four years after making his professional debut he had already amassed 87 million followers on Instagram
