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    Kylian Mbappé is a French professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team. He is known for his speed, dribbling ability, and precise finishing. His playing style has drawn comparisons to former players like Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. Off the field, Mbappé maintains a high profile through social media and sponsorship deals with brands like Nike, but says he sacrificed a normal adolescence to focus on his soccer career.

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    Kylian Mbappé is a French professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team. He is known for his speed, dribbling ability, and precise finishing. His playing style has drawn comparisons to former players like Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. Off the field, Mbappé maintains a high profile through social media and sponsorship deals with brands like Nike, but says he sacrificed a normal adolescence to focus on his soccer career.

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    Kylian Mbappé is a French professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team. He is known for his speed, dribbling ability, and precise finishing. His playing style has drawn comparisons to former players like Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. Off the field, Mbappé maintains a high profile through social media and sponsorship deals with brands like Nike, but says he sacrificed a normal adolescence to focus on his soccer career.

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    Kylian Mbappé is a French professional soccer player who plays as a forward for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team. He is known for his speed, dribbling ability, and precise finishing. His playing style has drawn comparisons to former players like Thierry Henry and Ronaldo. Off the field, Mbappé maintains a high profile through social media and sponsorship deals with brands like Nike, but says he sacrificed a normal adolescence to focus on his soccer career.

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    Player profile

    Style of play and reception

    Mbappé's movement has been compared to former forwards Thierry Henry and Ronaldo

    Mbappé has been described by Arsène Wenger as a "huge football talent" who "has similarities to
    Thierry Henry".[93] His talent and precocious performances for France at the 2018 World Cup also led
    him to be compared to Pelé in the media.[94] A versatile forward, Mbappé often plays as a winger, and
    is capable of playing on either flank, due to his ability with both feet. [95][96] He is capable of cutting into
    the centre onto his stronger right foot from the left wing, and is also capable of creating chances and
    providing assists for teammates from the right due to his vision. [97][98][99][100] He is also able to play in
    the centre as a main striker, due to his composure, clinical finishing, and eye for goal. [101][102][103][104] A
    highly skilful player, Mbappé is also known for his excellent dribbling ability, as well as his explosive
    acceleration, agility, quick feet, and creativity when in possession of the ball, as demonstrated by his
    use of elaborate feints, such as step overs, or sudden changes of pace or direction to beat
    opponents in one on one situations. [105][106][107] In spite of his tall lean frame, he is also an athletic player,
    gifted with physical strength. [108]
    In addition to his technical skills, Mbappé is also highly regarded for his outstanding pace and close
    ball control when dribbling at speed, as well as his excellent movement, tactical intelligence, and
    ability to beat the defensive line by making attacking runs into space both on and off the ball; his
    ability to time his runs enables him to stretch opposing defences, and also make him a dangerous
    offensive threat on counter-attacks.[97][106][109][110][111] In April 2017, former France international Nicolas
    Anelka said that Mbappé's ability to run at defences reminded him of Ronaldo of the 1996
    Olympics and that Mbappé had the characteristics of a world-class player. [112] Mbappé was named
    the fastest player in the world in a ranking by French newspaper Le Figaro.[113] When Stefan de Vrij,
    central defender for Inter Milan and the Netherlands, was asked of his toughest opponent, he placed
    Mbappé ahead of anyone else, including Mbappé's childhood idol Cristiano Ronaldo. [114] In 2018,
    Mbappé was considered the world's most expensive player from a transfer value perspective by
    the CIES.[115]

    Outside football
    Personal life
    In a 2018 interview with Time, Mbappé spoke about the sacrifices he made as a teenager to focus
    on his football development: "I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during
    adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times." But despite missing out on a "normal"
    life, Mbappé states he is "living the life he always dreamed of". [116] Just over four years after making
    his professional debut he has over 42 million Instagram followers.[116] While he admits his "life has
    been totally turned upside down" since he first entered the spotlight, he says he is "happy". [116]

    Media and sponsorship


    Mbappé has a sponsorship deal with sportswear and equipment supplier Nike. In 2017, his
    prodigious talent saw Nike launch his own personalised football boots at age 18, the Kylian
    Mbappé Nike Hypervenom 3.[117] In 2018, he unveiled the Nike Mercurial Superfly VI boots which
    were inspired by the R9 Mercurial boots of former Brazilian striker Ronaldo. [118] In 2018, Swiss
    watchmaker Hublot signed Mbappé as a global ambassador. [119]
    Mbappé features in EA Sports' FIFA video game series: on FIFA 18 he had the highest potential
    rating of 94.[120] His trademark goal celebration – posing with his arms folded and hands tucked under
    his armpits – was inspired by his younger brother Ethan who would celebrate in this manner when
    beating Kylian at FIFA.[121][122] The celebration appears in FIFA 19.[123] Mbappé features as the cover
    star of FIFA 21, making him the youngest to appear on the cover solo. [124]

    Philanthropy
    On 22 February 2018, Mbappé was joined by two of Africa's greatest strikers, former A.C.
    Milan forward and current Liberia President George Weah, and former Chelsea and Ivory Coast
    forward Didier Drogba, in a meeting with French President Emmanuel
    Macron and FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the Élysée Palace in Paris that focused on a sports
    development project in Africa.[125] Mbappé stated that the development of African sport is important to
    him due to his parents' African origins.[126]
    On 28 January 2019, Mbappé donated $34,000 (around £26,000) to a crowdfunding campaign to
    finance a private search mission to find football player Emiliano Sala, whose light aircraft had gone
    missing over the English Channel a week earlier.[127] Later, on 10 February 2019, Mbappé donated a
    further £27,000 to the GoFundMe campaign created to fund the search for the plane's still-missing
    pilot, David Ibbotson.[128]

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