In his career, Kylian Mbappé has scored 300 goals more quickly than both Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Thierry Henry, the former great of France, is nothing but admiring.
At the age of 24 years and 333 days, Mbappé accomplished the feat over the weekend in a 14-0 thumping of Gibraltar. The two greatest players of the twenty-first century, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, were older when they achieved the feat. Mbappé’s early career was marked by many comparisons to Henry. Before playing as left wings at Monaco, where they both won the French league titles as teenagers, they both attended the Clairefontaine academy in France. After that, Mbappé emulated another of Henry’s feats by winning the 2018 World Cup in his first significant competition as a member of France. The 1998 tournament was won by Henry.