Kylian Mbappe (French Football Player)

Biography:

Birthday: 20th December 1998

Father's name: Wilfried Mbappe

Mother's name: FayzaLamari

Born In: Bondy, France

Nationality: French

Introduction:

Kylian’s full name is Kylian Mbappé Lottin and he is a professional French football player, who plays for Ligue-1 and Saint-Germain club as a forward attacker. In FIFA World-Cup he plays for the French Football team. As an athlete, Kylin Mbappe is well known for his amazing dribbling skills, quick finishing moves and speed in the ground. In accordance to CIES, he falls in the domain of the world’s most expensive player according to the transfer value basis. 

At the age of just 18 years, he made his senior debut in for the France team. In the FIFA 2018 world-cup, Kylian became the first player to hold the privilege of scoring in the World cup and also the second teenager after Pere to score in the World cup final matches. He finished FIFA 2018 league for the french team as the joint second highest scorer of goals, which also led to success of France in winning the tournament and held him to receive Best young player and French Player of the Year for his outstanding efforts and performance throughout the match.

Kylian made his debut in Ligue 1 club of Morocco in the year 2015 at a young age of 15 years. With his presence in the club, they won Ligue 1 title and as a person he also received Ligue 1 Player of the Year Award along with a golden boy award. While signing a contract for Paris’s Saint-Germain, the contract seemed to be temporary that was made permanent later by an amount of 180 million euros, which was also for the second most expensive player as well as most expensive teenager.

Early Life:

Kylian was born in the city of Paris, in France. His father, Wilfried Mbappé, belonged from Cameroon, and, as was also an agent for him, who coached Kylian for his football game. On the other hand his mother, Fayza Lamari’s origin belongs to Algeria and she is also a former handball player. In his family, Kylian also has a younger brother, Ethan Mbappé, who currently is playing in PSGas under-12s. Other than this he also has an adopted step brother, Jirès Kembo Ekoko, who is again another football player. During his growing up time, he tried to emulate Christiano Ronaldo, who was also his main motivation and football idol.

Kylian commenced his career at AS Bondy, under the guidance and supervision of his coach who was no other than his own father, Wilfried. At AS Bondy , apart from his father another person to coach and train Kylian was Antonio Riccardi, who believed that the first time he coached Kylian was when Kylian was six years old. From the very first time, he observed some kind of differences within Kylian. He seemed to be as if he could do much more than the other children. His dribbling skills were unbelievable and fantastic and he seemed to be much faster than the others. According to Antonio, Kylian was the best player he has ever seen in his 15 years of coaching career. In the city of Paris, one can find a lot many talents but a talent like Kylian was something that Antonio has never seen before. He was what they used to call a 'crack' which referred to “the best.”

Sooner, he shifted to the Clairefontaine academy, portraying on a host of impressive performances and heading to numerous French clubs, and Chelsea, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Bayern Munich, trying their best to sign him. Kylianthen moved to London for a trial with Chelsea when he was at the age of 11, where he was playing a match for their youth team against the club Charlton Athletic.After all the ups and downs hefinally settled on Monaco.

Career:

Kylian debuted for his first team on the day of 2nd December 2015 in a 1–1 match playing for Ligue 1 which resulted in a draw against SM Caen, which was followed up by replacement of Fábio Coentrão after 88 minutes and hence heemerged as Monaco's youngest-ever first-team player who was aged just 16 years and 347 days, breaking Thierry Henry's record set twenty one years back.

On the day of 20th February 2016, Kylian scored his first goal as for the firstclub’s team that was a stoppage-time goal in a home Ligue 1 3–1 win over the team Troyes. He scored this goal at the age of 17 years and 62 days, which made himbecome the youngest first team goalscorer in the entire Monaco's history—which was again a breakthrough against Henry in the attempt. On the day of 6th March 2016, Kylian signed and accepted his first professional contract, which was a three-year deal, bonding him to Monaco until the month of June 2019. In an interview with the leading media CNN, Vadim Vasilyev, who is also the AS Monaco's vice-president, and played a significant role in Kylian accepting his first professional contract with the Ligue 1 club, told that he knew early on that Kylian was a "phenomenon" and totally going to rock their club.

On the day of 21st February, Kylian scored Monaco's second goal in exactly the 40th minute including a half-volley after receiving Fabinho's long ball coming over the opponents' back line in the UEFA League round of 16 that was the first leg match against Manchester City, which Monaco lost with the score of 5–3. On the day of 5thMarch, Kylian scored two goals in the first half with the final score of 4–0. Later, Ligue 1 home winning match over FC Nantes to brought his Ligue 1 career to tally the ten goals and also reach the milestone of the youngest player in the last 30 years to hit the ten-career-goals mark. 

Achievements:

• He received Golden Boy award in the year 2017.
  
• He received Kopa Trophy award in the year 2017.
  
• He received French Player of the year award 2018.
  
• He received Ligue 1 Player of the year award 2019.