Frenchman Kylian Mbappe continues to kidnap the limelight, and confirms that he is the next star of world football after the era of Argentine Lionel Messi and Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo ends.

In this report published by the Olympic Channel website, we learn a number of the most prominent information about the young French star, who became the second youngest player in football history to score in the World Cup Final after the Brazilian legend Pele.

Messi is watching me

In the 2018-2019 season, Messi won the European Golden Boot with 36 goals, beating Mbappe, who scored 33 goals.

In an interview with France Football in December 2019, Mbappe confirmed that he had discovered Messi had been watching him throughout the season.

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- Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) March 11, 2021

"I thought maybe I could get the title of the best goalscorer in Europe. But Messi was always ahead of me. I was scoring two goals at the end of the week, so he was scoring 3 goals. And if I scored 3, he would score 4! It was so insane that I spoke to Osman Dembele about this and I said to him: This is crazy! Is he doing it on purpose? He replied: Of course he is looking at you! I said to myself: This is not bad, Messi is watching me. It is my pleasure that such a player does not ignore me. "

Role model Ronaldo

When he was young, Mbappe considered Cristiano Ronaldo his idol, and pictures of the Portuguese star covered the walls of his room.

Mbappe appears in one of the old photos, wearing a green jacket surrounded by Ronaldo pictures on all sides.

Football: Mbappe throws Cristiano Ronaldo out of his room.

Now has posters of himself instead.

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- Soccer24.com (@ Soccer24COM) January 1, 2019

In 2019, Mbappe re-took a completely similar picture in the same place, but this time he was surrounded by his own pictures on the walls, after he had made several achievements, most notably winning the World Cup in 2018 when he was 19 years old.

Is Mbappe faster than Bolt?

When the French star scored his astonishing goal against Monaco in 2019, the speed with which he overtook his rivals was the talk of the world.

In fact, Mbappe's top speed was at 38 km / h, surpassing Usain Bolt's average speed when he set the 2009 100-meter record of 37.58 km / h.

But Bolt's top speed was then 42.7 kilometers per hour, higher than Mbappe.

Mencetak gol ke gawang Monaco akhir pekan lalu, Mbappe ciptakan rekor unik.

Kali ini Top Speed ​​berlari si bocah emas berhasil mengalahkan rekor dunia 100m milik Usain Bolt yang merupakan rekor berlari tercepat seseorang di dunia! ⚡🔥 # beINLigue1 pic.twitter.com/6ByU33fVSI

- beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTSid) April 24, 2019

The second youngest player to score in the World Cup final

In the 2018 World Cup, Mbappe became the second player in World Cup history to score a goal in the final, under the age of twenty.

Pele was the only player to achieve this feat before Mbappe, when he scored for Brazil in the 1958 World Cup Final against Sweden, at the age of 17.

🇫🇷🇭🇷 #OnThisDay in 2018: Kylian Mbappé becomes the first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pelé in 1958 as France beat Croatia 4-2.

What a summer that was. @ KMbappe |

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- The Sportsman (@TheSportsman) July 15, 2020

Mbappe scored a goal in the match, which France won against Croatia, with a score of 4-2, and Pele congratulated him in a tweet.

Sports family

We would have seen Mbappe as a handball player had he chosen to follow in the footsteps of his mother, Faiza El Amary, who played in the French League during the 1990s.

Fortunately for the football fans, Mbappe chose to follow in the footsteps of his father, Wilfred, who was a footballer for "Ace Bondi", the club where Mbappe started his football career.

[#BallondOr] La famille Mbappé

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- Footballogue⭐️⭐️ (@Footballogue) December 3, 2018

The family includes another player, Mbappe's younger brother Ethan, who plays for the Paris Saint-Germain academy, and many expect him to have a bright future like his brother.

He could have played for Algeria or Cameroon

Mbappe, the World Cup winner with France, could have chosen to play for either Cameroon or Algeria, as his mother is Algerian and his father is Cameroonian.

But Mbappe was born and raised in France, and was chosen to play for the prestigious Clairefontaine Academy from a young age.

In 2016, Mbappe won the European U-19 Cup with the French national team, and two years later he lifted the World Cup with the roosters.

Kylian Mbappé et sa maman.

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- Actu Foot (@ActuFoot_) December 25, 2020

Generosity Mbappe

Mbappe has always been a modest and generous star, and he donated all the money he won after winning the "Russia 2018" World Cup (400,000 euros) to the "Promier de Cordy" organization, a children's charity.

"For people like us, helping people is not difficult. It doesn't change my life, but it does change their lives. If I can change their lives, it makes me very happy," Mbappe told Time magazine.

An obsession with sneakers

Mbappe says he is fond of buying sports shoes as much as young children are buying new toys.

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50 million followers on Instagram

Mbappe has 50 million followers on Instagram.

It is true that he is still far from Cristiano Ronaldo (274 million followers) and Lionel Messi (194 million), but his fame and popularity are still witnessing a rocket rise.

The French star puts his image to good use for charity and social causes such as fighting racism.