Kylian Mbappé (21 years old) is in luck. It has been five years since its emergence on the European football scene. On December 2, 2015, the young attacker (he was just 16 years old (on the 20th he will reach 22), entered the final minutes of the match that Monaco played against Caen in replacement of Fabio Coentrao. dorsal 33, Leonardo Jardim thus compensated him for the work he had been doing both with the subsidiary team and with the first team when required. He did it with 16 years and 347 days: it took away the title of youngest player to debut in the Principality's team from Thierry Henry. His explosive speed, his technical ability, his definition in front of the rival goal and his impudence for the age he was did presage the footballer who was coming. Against the whole of the French coast, the young Kylian had time to overflow the left wing a couple of times, feigning his rival and looking diagonally for the goal of Caen.
That was the first step in a career that has seen him win four French Leagues so far (all from the 2016-17 campaign), two French Cups, two French League Cups and two French Super Cups. At the international level, he has already made his mark by being the European Under-19 Champion in 2016 and World Champion after winning with Les Bleus the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Mbappé, step by step since his debut, made a place for himself in the formidable Monaco of Jardim that reached the semifinals of the Champions League in the 2016-17 campaign eliminating teams like Tottenham in the league phase, Manchester City (the Monegasque team passed after thrashing at Luis II (3-1) to the citizen, who had previously won 5-3 at Etihad), and Dortmund in the quarterfinals (they defeated them in both games). Only Juventus, who would ultimately lose the final to Madrid, could defeat the Principality in the semifinals. Kylian had won his first appointments with the French national team: after making his debut against Luxembourg from the bench, his first start under Deschamps came in a friendly against the Spanish national teamto. The boy had become a man.
The summer of 2017 would see how the great signing of the summer took place in France: PSG reached an agreement with Monaco for Mbappé. The Parisian team would pay around 180 million euros for his transfer: almost 10 million for each year of the player. He rejected other offers, including a juicy one from Real Madrid, for a member of the team from his birth city (he had been born in Bondy, near Paris). He left Monaco with 27 goals in 60 games with the Principality team. In Paris he ended up becoming the most valuable player on the entire European continent: Transfermarkt has set him a market value of 180 million, precisely what it cost the Parisian entity, which also makes him the best valued French player. He arrived as one of the stars at the World Cup in Russia, where he was proclaimed world champion– Became the second youngest player to score in a final. The first is Pelé, who did it at 17 in 1958, Kylian did it at 19. In that post-World Cup campaign, the young attacker would make history: he scored 39 goals in 43 games (an average of 0.91 goals per game, giving, in addition, 17 assists). In the current sum of nine goals in 11 games … He is just one goal away from reaching a hundred goals with the Parisian elastic.
Now, and after Neymar's words about Messi after winning at Old Trafford, his name is once again related to that of Real Madrid, as it already happened in 2017. The presence of Zidane on the white bench makes him something attractive for him of Bondy, who always had a reference in the white coach, and in the white entity they have him as an object of desire for the near future. It seems that the open secret that he will play in white one day has signs of becoming reality …