Kylian Mbappe | Before They Were Famous | Biography of French Football GOAT

Before almost single-handedly winning France the World Cup with a
rare hat-trick in the Final match of the tournament, Kylian Mbappe
was born on December 20th, 1998 in the city of Paris -- and as the
athlete himself once suggested in a children’s book made about his
life, from the very beginning, Kylian Mbappe was born into
football. In a lot of ways, you could also say that Kylian was born
in the right place at the right time. His local football club, AS
Bondy, was where his Cameroon-born father, Wilfried, used to coach
under-15s and would go on to train more than a dozen top
professionals -- but it was his son that Wilfried always had the
greatest designs for. Of course, it wasn’t just Kylian’s parents
who wanted greatness for him – he wanted it for himself, and from a
young age too. At just six years old he learned every line to
France’s national anthem while explaining to his teachers at school
that he was doing so in preparation for playing in the World Cup.
At that same age, he’d also watch interviews of his many heroes,
studying how a talent like Cristiano Ronaldo would handle the media
and then pretend to hold his own press conferences by posing
questions to himself in what would eventually become three
languages – his native French, as well as English and Spanish --
the foreign languages he studied at a private Catholic school.