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England volition conscionable France successful the World Cup quarter-finals connected Saturday (19:00 GMT kick-off) - and 1 subordinate successful peculiar is connected everyone's mind.
Paris St-Germain guardant Kylian Mbappe is arguably the champion subordinate successful the satellite close now, and a batch of the speech has been astir however helium tin beryllium stopped by Gareth Southgate's Three Lions.
BBC Sport picks retired the 10 things you request to cognize astir Mbappe and his meteoric rise...
He is the 2nd astir costly subordinate successful history
In 2017, Mbappe joined PSG, initially connected loan, from Monaco, earlier making the determination imperishable a twelvemonth aboriginal for 180m euros (£166m).
It is inactive the 2nd astir costly transportation ever. The lone woody that outgo much was Brazil guardant Neymar's 222m euros (£200m) determination to PSG from Barcelona successful 2017.
Mbappe has gone connected to people 190 goals successful 237 games for the French champions, wherever helium plays alongside Neymar and Argentina large Lionel Messi.
He is simply a serial winner
In 7 years arsenic a professional, Mbappe has won:
- 2018 World Cup
- 2020-21 Uefa Nations League
- Five Ligue 1 titles (four astatine PSG, 1 astatine Monaco)
- Three French Cups
- Two French League Cups
Individually, helium has won the Golden Boy grant - fixed to the champion under-21 subordinate successful Europe's apical flights - successful 2017, been named French subordinate of the twelvemonth twice, and Ligue 1 subordinate of the twelvemonth and young subordinate of the twelvemonth 3 times. He was besides judged to beryllium the champion young subordinate astatine the 2018 World Cup and been Ligue 1's apical goalscorer successful 4 seasons.
And helium helped PSG scope their archetypal Champions League last successful 2020, though they were beaten by Bayern Munich.
He's utilized to lighting up a World Cup
Mbappe was conscionable 19 erstwhile helium played a cardinal relation successful France's tally to glory astatine Russia 2018, scoring 4 goals on the way.
His onslaught successful the 4-2 triumph implicit Croatia made him the 2nd teen to people successful a World Cup final, aft Brazil fable Pele successful 1958.
Mbappe is the the starring scorer successful Qatar truthful acold with 5 goals, and his wide tally of 9 astatine World Cups means helium has already overtaken Diego Maradona, who scored 8 for Argentina, and Portugal's Cristiano Ronaldo.
Indeed, helium is the youngest subordinate to people 9 World Cup goals, breaking a grounds held by Eusebio, who scored 8 for Portugal by the property of 24 years and 182 days.
He was a grounds breaker astatine a young age
Mbappe, who was calved connected the outskirts of Paris and started retired astatine his section squad AS Bondy, made his first-team debut for Monaco successful December 2015.
Aged 16 years and 347 days, helium became the youngest subordinate successful the club's past - beating a grounds acceptable by France and Arsenal fable Thierry Henry successful 1994 - erstwhile helium appeared arsenic an 88th-minute substitute against Caen.
Three months later, helium became the club's youngest scorer with his archetypal elder extremity against Troyes. Who acceptable the erstwhile record? Henry.
He's ace quick
During France's 3-1 last-16 triumph implicit Poland, his apical velocity was recorded astatine 35.3 km/h and earlier Sunday's game, lone six players had recorded faster sprints astatine this year's World Cup.
In September, Ligue 1 said helium was the fastest subordinate successful the league this play astatine 36km/h.
To enactment that into context, Jamaican Olympic sprinting fable Usain Bolt acceptable his 100m satellite grounds of 9.58 seconds successful 2009 with an average velocity of 37.58km/h.
He turned down a big-money determination to Real Madrid past summer
After a agelong courtship from Real president Florentino Perez and agreeing a fiscal bundle with the La Liga giants, Mbappe decided to enactment successful Paris and motion a caller three-year deal.
According to Spanish shot adept Guillem Balague, some clubs were consenting to wage 150m euros (£127m) arsenic a signing-on fee.
However, helium has not ruled retired a determination to the Spanish and European champions successful the future, telling the BBC successful May his Real Madrid imagination was "never over".
A humble planetary star
In October, Mbappe topped the Forbes database for highest-earning footballers - the archetypal clip idiosyncratic different than Messi oregon Ronaldo has been fig 1 for 9 years.
It is estimated that helium volition gain $128m (£115.2m) this season.
Mbappe is besides fashionable connected societal media, with a combined pursuing of astir 100 cardinal connected Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
He was besides named alongside Ronaldo, Messi and Neymar arsenic the astir influential footballers connected Instagram owed to play astatine the 2022 World Cup.
His iconic folded arms and knee-slide solemnisation person featured connected the Fifa 21 game and helium was reportedly the youngest jock to look connected his ain connected the cover, earlier returning for the 2022 edition.
After winning the World Cup 4 years ago, Mbappe announced helium had donated his full £380,000 wage for the tourney to a children's charity.
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