Kylian Mbappé Lottin is a renowned French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team. Born on December 20, 1998, in Paris, he was raised in nearby Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris.
Mbappé began his senior club career in 2015 playing for Monaco, where he won the Ligue 1 title. In 2017, he signed for Paris Saint-Germain on an eventual permanent transfer worth €180 million, making him the second-most-expensive player and most expensive teenage player. There, he has won four Ligue 1 titles, three Coupes de France, and is the club's second-highest all-time top goalscorer.
At international level, Mbappé made his senior debut for France in 2017, at age 18. He helped France win the 2018 FIFA World Cup, where he 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. He finished as the joint second-highest goalscorer and won the FIFA World Cup Best Young Player and French Player of the Year for his performances.
Mbappé has been named to the FIFA FIFPro World11 in 2018 and 2019, the UEFA Team of the Year in 2018, and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season in 2016–17, 2019–20, 2020–21, and 2021–22. He was awarded the Globe Soccer Best Player of the Year in 2021 and has won the Golden Boy in 2017, Ligue 1 Player of the Year three times, and has finished as the Ligue 1 top scorer for four seasons.
Mbappé was born to Wilfried, a former football coach, and Fayza Lamari, a former handball player. His father is originally from Cameroon, and his mother is of Algerian Kabyle origin. Mbappé is a practicing Christian and has a younger brother, Ethan, who played for Paris Saint-Germain's under-12 squad in 2018.
