7 Interesting facts you don't know about Mbappe

Mbappe, who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain has scored 253 times in 363 games for club and country, a tally that far exceeds those of Messi and Ronaldo at the same age.

As a young boy, Mbapper idolised Portugese star Cristiano Ronaldo and had his posters all over his room at home.

At 23, he was on the Forbes’ list of world’s highest-paid football players and was expected to get a record $128 million in annual earnings.

Mbappe donated all his earnings from FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia 2018 to a children's charity. He reportedly earned close to half a million US dollars from the tournament.

Mbappe started his football journey in Bondy when he was five. As a child, he used to sit in with his father, then a youth coach with his hometown club AS Bondy, during the team's tactical discussions. Consequently, he learnt how to absorb tactical information very early on.

Mbappe is already up to sixth on France's list of all-time top scorers with 36 goals, one behind Karim Benzema -- the Ballon d'Or winner whose absence in Qatar was mitigated by the brilliance of Mbappe.

Born in an immigrant family on December 20, 1998, in Paris, he was raised in Bondy, in the city’s suburbs. While his father, Mbappé's agent and a football coach, is originally from the African country of Cameroon, his mother is of Algerian Kabyle origin. She was a handball player.

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