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Kylian Mbappé

French footballer (born 1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 27, 2026
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Kylian Mbappé Lottin is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Real Madrid and captains the France national team. Widely regarded as one of the best players in the world and one of the greatest French players of all time, he is known for his pace, dribbling, and finishing. Mbappé has scored over 400 goals in his senior career, ranking as the all-time top goalscorer for Paris Saint-Germain (256), the France national team (66), and the FIFA World Cup (22).

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The public source identifies “Kylian Mbappé” as french footballer (born 1998). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kylian, Mbappé and French.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 86-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kylian, Mbappé and French providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Kylian Mbappé” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.