He born to a family of athletes, has sports in his blood. His father, Wilfried along with being his manager is a football coach & his mother, Fayza Lamari is a former handball player.
Growing up, Mbappe used to idolize the five time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo. He had his pictures stuck on the wall all around his room.
The PSG number 7 is the second most expensive player in the world after Neymar. Mbappe signed for PSG in a transfer deal worth €180m plus add ons from his old club Monaco.
Mbappe has a sponsorship deal with Nike and has his own section on their website called, “Boutique De Mbappe.” Which displays his choices of boots.
He donated all of his world cup earnings estimated to be around €400,000 to a Premiers de Cordée charity.
The PSG number 7 was very close to joining Chelsea in 2012. He gave a trial for the club but they were not convinced enough and wanted another one.
His mother rejected the offer saying, “Either they sign him now, or within five years they’ll have to offer €50million to tie him down.”
Against Monaco in 2019 when he scored an incredible goal. Mbappe set an impressive speed of 23.61 mph, 0.25 miles per hour faster than Usain Bolt.
However, Bolt soon broke the record in 100m race in Berlin when he recorded a speed of 27.8 miles per hour.
The PSG forward is quite popular on social media. He has 72m followers on Instagram