Captain Mbappé
GQ US|March 2024
We met him as a teenage prodigy. Now, with his PSG teammates Messi and Neymar gone, and a new job as French national team captain, Kylian Mbappé is reckoning with the responsibilities and privileges that come with being the man.
By Maxime Joly. Photographs by Malick Bodian
Captain Mbappé

At 25, Kylian Mbappé has somehow already. played more than 400 games at the summit. of men's soccer. After breaking through as a teenage sensation at AS Monaco, Mbappé won the World Cup with France at just 19, and in 2017 moved to Paris Saint-Germain for 180 million euros ($215 million). He is already PSG's all-time top scorer; it seems likely that, sooner or later, he'll achieve the same status with the French national team.

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