Kylian Mbappe
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Kylian Mbappe went from a Paris suburb to the top of the World Cup scoring charts in under a decade. He broke Thierry Henry's record as Monaco's youngest debutant at 16, won Ligue 1 with them at 18, then became the second most expensive player ever when PSG paid €180 million. Six Ligue 1 titles and 256 goals later he left on a free for the club he supported as a boy, wore the number 9 at the Bernabeu in front of 80,000 people and won the European Golden Shoe in his first season. These 50 questions follow the whole arc: the Clairefontaine academy, the Chelsea trial at 14, the Kopa Trophy, four goals in 13 minutes against Lyon, the record Coupe de France haul, the Pichichi and the six-minute hat-trick against Olympiacos. Then France: the first World Cup goal against Peru, the final against Croatia, the Nations League winner against Spain, the hat-trick in the 2022 final, the captaincy after Hugo Lloris, and the 2026 tournament where he overtook Messi as the World Cup's all-time scorer. Off the pitch there are boots, a production company, a stake in Caen and two baby pandas. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation.
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Q 01In which Paris suburb was Mbappe raised?
Bondy
Bondy, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, is where Mbappe joined the local club at six, with his father Wilfrid, a coach there, among the first people to train him.
Q 02Mbappe was born in December 1998, five months after France won their first World Cup by beating which team?
Brazil
Brazil lost that final 3-0 just outside Paris on 12 July 1998. Mbappe was born on 20 December, so he was still only 19 when France won it again in 2018.
Q 03From which country does Mbappe's father Wilfrid originate?
Cameroon
Cameroon is his father Wilfrid's homeland: Wilfrid comes from Djebale, an island village near Douala, where its chief welcomed Kylian with traditional rites in July 2023.
Q 04Which sport did Mbappe's mother, Fayza Lamari, play professionally?
Handball
Handball was Fayza Lamari's game: she played until 2001 for a club that spent several seasons in France's top division, then moved to the negotiating table as the adviser behind her son's contracts.
Q 05Mbappe's arms-folded goal celebration was copied from which member of his family?
His brother Ethan
His brother Ethan, eight years younger, folded his arms in triumph after scoring against him at the FIFA video game; Kylian borrowed the pose and made it his trademark.
Q 06Which language did Mbappe start learning at 15 and later speak fluently?
Spanish
Spanish classes began at 15, reportedly with a future move to Real Madrid in mind, and at 25 he gave his first press conference for the club in the language.
Q 07Which French national football academy did Mbappe attend from the age of 12?
Clairefontaine
Clairefontaine, the French federation's academy, was his base from 12; by 14 he is said to have turned down every other Ligue 1 club, and several of Europe's biggest, to sign for Monaco.
Q 08Which English club gave the young Mbappe a trial that included a youth match against Charlton?
Chelsea
Chelsea invited him to London as a schoolboy and put him in a junior game against Charlton, but the family weighed that offer against others across Europe and chose Monaco.
Q 09Which French football great hosted the teenage Mbappe during a trial week at Real Madrid in 2012?
Zinedine Zidane
Zinedine Zidane arranged the visit and offered the boy a lift in his car; the overawed Mbappe asked whether he should take his shoes off first, and still signed for Monaco.
Q 10Whose record as Monaco's youngest first-team player did Mbappe break in 2015?
Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry had held the record since 1994 and, within three months, lost his mark as Monaco's youngest scorer to Mbappe too; Arsene Wenger went on to liken the teenager to his old Arsenal striker.
Q 11Which Monaco manager gave the 16-year-old Mbappe his first-team debut in December 2015?
Leonardo Jardim
Leonardo Jardim sent him on as an 88th-minute substitute at 16, and by May 2017 the Portuguese coach's young side, with 26 goals from Mbappe, were champions of France.
Q 12Which Monaco striker did Mbappe credit as a key influence in his breakout season?
Radamel Falcao
Radamel Falcao was 'like a teacher', Mbappe said: the Colombian left him space to express himself and passed on a calm in front of goal that the excitable teenager did not yet have.
Q 13Which German club did Mbappe's Monaco beat in the 2017 Champions League quarter-finals?
Borussia Dortmund
Q 21Which club beat Mbappe's PSG 1-0 in the 2020 Champions League final?
Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich won it with a 59th-minute header from Kingsley Coman, a French winger who had come through PSG's own youth academy.
Q 22Which player later overtook Mbappe as the youngest to 20 Champions League goals?
Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland took the record at 20 in March 2021, only three months after Mbappe had set it, and got there in just 14 matches, ten fewer than the previous fastest player.
Q 23On the final day of 2021-22, when he sealed Ligue 1's goals and assists double, what did Mbappe announce?
A new PSG contract
Borussia Dortmund lost the first leg 3-2 to two Mbappe goals, less than 24 hours after it was postponed because explosions had hit their team bus; he scored again in the return.
Q 14Which Italian club knocked Mbappe's Monaco out of the 2017 Champions League semi-finals?
Juventus
Juventus went through 4-1 on aggregate, but Mbappe's goal in Turin was the first they had conceded in 689 minutes of that Champions League; Monaco still ended the season with a first French title in 17 years.
Q 15Mbappe's €180 million move to PSG made him the second most expensive player ever, behind which fellow 2017 signing?
Neymar
Neymar had cost PSG a record €222 million weeks earlier, which is why Mbappe first arrived on a season's loan: the delay was reportedly meant to keep the club inside UEFA's Financial Fair Play rules.
Q 16Which PSG manager's speech at the Mbappe family home helped persuade him to sign in 2017?
Unai Emery
Unai Emery gave Mbappe his word that he would play, PSG recruiter Luis Ferrer recalled, at a time when Real Madrid would not guarantee the 18-year-old a starting place.
Q 17Mbappe's PSG teammates gave him a nickname in 2017 taken from which cartoon heroes?
The Ninja Turtles
The Ninja Turtles: the dressing room called him Donatello from his first weeks in Paris because, Adrien Rabiot explained, he looks a bit like a turtle.
Q 18Mbappe was the first winner of which Ballon d'Or-night award for the world's best under-21 player?
Kopa Trophy
Kopa Trophy: former Ballon d'Or winners cast the votes, and in 2018 they made Mbappe the runaway first winner on a night when the 19-year-old also came fourth for the main prize.
Q 19Against which club did Mbappe score four goals in 13 minutes in 2018?
Lyon
Lyon trailed only 1-0 after an hour, with a man sent off on each side, before the 19-year-old struck four times, the youngest player in 45 years to score four in a Ligue 1 match.
Q 20Which Monaco striker matched Mbappe's 18 goals in the Covid-shortened 2019-20 Ligue 1 season?
Wissam Ben Yedder
Wissam Ben Yedder also had 18 when the season was stopped early, but he had played 26 matches to Mbappe's 20, so the top-scorer prize went to Mbappe on goals per game.
A new PSG contract: he turned down Real Madrid to re-sign on the day he finished as the first player to top Ligue 1's official tables for both goals (28) and assists (17).
Q 24In which competition did Mbappe score five against sixth-tier Pays de Cassel in 2023, a first for a PSG player?
Coupe de France
Coupe de France: the round-of-32 tie was goalless for almost half an hour before Mbappe scored a first-half hat-trick and two more after the break in a 7-0 win.
Q 25Whose record of 200 goals did Mbappe break in 2023 to become PSG's all-time top scorer?
Edinson Cavani
Edinson Cavani had needed 301 games for his 200 goals; Mbappe passed him in his 247th, aged 24, with a stoppage-time strike in a 4-2 win over Nantes.
Q 26With which striker did Mbappe tie as Champions League top scorer in 2023-24, his final PSG season?
Harry Kane
Harry Kane also finished on eight goals, and both went out in the semi-finals: Kane to Real Madrid, the eventual winners and the club Mbappe joined weeks later.
Q 27Which club beat PSG to the 2021 Ligue 1 title, the only one Mbappe missed in seven seasons there?
Lille
Lille finished a single point ahead of PSG in 2020-21 even though Mbappe was the league's top scorer with 27 goals; he won the title in each of his other six seasons in Paris.
Q 28Posters of which Real Madrid star covered Mbappe's childhood bedroom walls?
Cristiano Ronaldo
Cristiano Ronaldo was his boyhood idol, and the two posed for a photo when a 14-year-old Mbappe visited Madrid's training ground; in 2024 he was unveiled at the Bernabeu as a Real Madrid player himself.
Q 29In which match did Mbappe score on his Real Madrid debut in August 2024?
The UEFA Super Cup
The UEFA Super Cup: he scored the second goal in a 2-0 win over Atalanta in Warsaw, so his very first game for Madrid won him a title.
Q 30Which Chilean striker's record for goals in a debut Real Madrid season did Mbappe break in 2025?
Ivan Zamorano
Ivan Zamorano's 37 goals in 1992-93 had stood for 32 years; Mbappe reached 39 with a hat-trick against Barcelona in a Clasico that Madrid still lost.