Kylian Mbappe is only 24 years old and is on the trajectory to boast one of football’s all-time greatest careers.
The France international was agonisingly denied a second successive World Cup, with a penalty shootout defeat to Argentina in the Qatar 2022 final, but you wouldn’t bet against him lifting football’s most prestigious prize again.
As the debate rages on about Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and their place among the sport’s all-time greats, there’s every chance that one day Mbappe will find himself in the conversation.
The future is uncertain and it remains to be seen what happens next in the PSG superstar’s glittering career – but he’s on the right track to smash records at every level; for club and country, in the World Cup, Champions League and beyond.
“A career is 15 years long,” Mbappe told UEFA.com in 2015.
“Give everything for 15 years, and then afterwards, you’ll have time to see what you’ve done. And you’ll have your whole life to say: ‘I won this, I did that.’”
“I’ve never said I was going to be the greatest player in history, but I’ve never put limits on myself. If I get to a certain level, I’m not going to stop myself by putting a barrier up, like: ‘If I get there, then that’s it, that’s my maximum.’
“No, I try to push my boundaries and see where that takes me. For the moment, it’s working well for me, and I’ll keep doing that until the end of my career.”
“Every time I step onto the pitch, I tell myself I’m the best, and yet I’ve played on the same pitch as [Lionel] Messi and Cristiano [Ronaldo], and they’re better players than me!
“They’ve done a billion more things than me, but in my head I always tell myself that I’m the best because then you’re not putting limits on yourself and you’re trying to give the best version of yourself.”
There certainly don’t appear to be any limits on what Mbappe can go on and achieve in the remainder of his career, having already done so much. Here are eight of the incredible records that he genuinely has the potential to break.
– Barring something extraordinary, Mbappe will surely eclipse Miroslav Klose as the top scorer in the history of the World Cup. At just 23 years old, he equalled Pele’s record of 12 goals by scoring a hat-trick in the competition. With every chance he plays in three more World Cups, you’d expect him to score at least five more World Cup goals to eclipse Klose’s record of 16 – it…
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