MBAPPE. Qatar wanted Kylian Mbappé to be present in Doha on Friday April 1 for the draw for the group stage of the 2022 World Cup. An invitation refused by the French international.
[Mis à jour le 31 mars à 15h47] The most anticipated meeting of 2022, the Football World Cup (November 21 – December 18) starts on Friday April 1 with the draw for the group stage. At the Exhibition Center in Doha, all the cream of world football will be present except Kylian Mbappé. Invited by the Gulf state to the ceremony, the 2018 world champion declined the invitation claiming that he is not the captain of the France team and that he is expected to train the same day. not his club Paris Saint-Germain.
Negotiations had taken place in recent weeks between Qatar, the France team, Paris Saint-Germain as well as the player and his entourage to see if a presence of “Kyky” at the ceremony was possible, where the arrival of the Blues , as world champions is paramount.
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Kylian Mbappé is a French football player from Bondy. He put on his crampons from the age of 6 in his hometown. In 2015, he joined AS Monaco, where he made his Ligue 1 debut. Since 2017, Kylian Mbappé has been playing as a striker at Paris Saint-Germain.
Born on December 20, 1998 in the 19and arrondissement of Paris, Kylian Mbappé comes from a family of athletes. His father, Wilfrid Mbappé Lottin is a former footballer who became an under-15 coach in Bondy and his mother, Fayza Lamari is a former handball player. Kylian Mbappé is of Cameroonian origin by his father and Algerian by his mother. Jirès Kembo Ekoko is raised by Kylian’s parents. He also has a younger brother, Ethan.
Kylian Mbappé made his football debut in 2004 at AS Bondy. In 2011, he trained at the INF Clairefontaine center. The young player then left Bondy where he was educated and continued his studies in Rambouillet. At the end of his training, he joined the AS Monaco training center, which returned to Ligue 1. In 2014, Kylian Mbappé was selected for the France under-17 team and in 2016, he obtained his STMG baccalaureate.
On August 31, 2017, Kylian Mbappé left AS Monaco to join Paris Saint-Germain. He keeps number 29, his little brother Ethan’s birthday. For the 2018/2019 season, the player changes his number and becomes number 7, being a fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.
On September 8, he played his first match with the PSG jersey and scored his very first goal with the Parisian club. In October 2017, Kylian Mbappé was elected Golden Boy, a trophy which rewards the best footballer under 21 playing in Europe. He was voted French top scorer of the year 2017 with 33 goals.
On March 31, 2018, Kylian Mbappé won his first title at Paris Saint-Germain against AS Monaco in the Coupe de la Ligue final. He is crowned champion of France with PSG. Within the Parisian club, the young player is nicknamed “Donatello” by his teammates.
On March 16, 2017, Kylian Mbappé was selected by Didier Deschamps for his first match for the France team. On March 25, he comes into play against Luxembourg for his first selection. Kylian Mbappé scores his first goal in blue in a 2018 World Cup qualifier against the Netherlands.
On March 27, 2018, Kylian Mbappé became the youngest away scorer in the France team at just 19 years old. In the 2018 World Cup final, against Croatia, Kylian Mbappé scored the fourth blue goal and the match ended 4-2. At the end of this World Cup, he received the trophy of the “best young player” of the competition by FIFA. Euro 2021 will have been less successful for the tricolor player. Kylian Mbappé was the 5th shooter for the France team during the penalty shootout against Switzerland in the round of 16 of the European Nations Championship. A difficult position to assume since, all the other shooters having succeeded. The French striker chose to shoot on the right of the Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer, author of a very big performance against the Blues and who released the decisive parade, confirming the elimination of the Blues. Kylian Mbappé remains today an indisputable starter with the Blues.
At the beginning of 2020, the CIES, the football observatory published the ranking of the most expensive players in the world. Kylian Mbappé tops this ranking with a valuation of 265 million euros. In 2019, he is the athlete who has won the most and the 36and world’s highest paid athlete. Kylian Mbappé’s jersey flocking is the most popular for France team jerseys. His annual salary at PSG is also estimated at 17.5 million euros gross.
37.6 km/h is the top speed at which Kylian Mbappé was flashed during the France-Germany match for Euro 2021. The French striker again reached a surprising speed, he who had already been flashed at 38km / h with PSG or during his sprint which resulted in a whistled penalty for the Blues during the memorable France-Argentina of 2018. Of course, the comparisons are going well. According to the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, which dissected the action, Kylian Mbappé would have sprinted at an average speed of 34 km / h with a peak of more than 37 km / h … But over a distance of only 30 m. Not enough to really compare with the stars of athletics, even less with the world record holder Usain Bolt. In 2009, during the world record set by the Jamaican in Berlin (9.58), Usain Bolt had run at an average of 37.58 km / h to complete the victorious 100 meters but above all reached a peak at 44 km / h. So much faster than Kylian Mbappé who can be satisfied with running fast, very fast on a football field, crampons on his feet…
Kylian Mbappé is very discreet about his private life. Many rumors have appeared, lending him a relationship with several celebrities. Since the end of 2021, the player has appeared several times with Emma Smet without the two supporters mentioning a possible romance.