The race for the European Golden Shoe - December 2018 watch

Lionel Messi is the current holder of the European Golden Boot
Lionel Messi is the current holder of the European Golden Boot

#1 Kylian Mbappe (PSG)

League - France Ligue 1

League coefficient (x2)

12 goals (24 points)

Kylian Mbappe has the world at his feet
Kylian Mbappe has the world at his feet

What a year it has been for Kylian Mbappe.

The prodigiously talented Frenchman burst onto world consciousness with his performances for Monaco in thier fairytale 2016/2017 season where they won the Ligue 1 title ahead of French moneybags PSG as welll as made it to the semi-final of the UCL.

Mbappe broke a number of Champions League records in that magical run, and his performances sealed him a mega move to PSG which made him the second most expensive player of all-time (behind teammate Neymar), as well as the most expensive teenager in the history of football.

Since then, Mbappe's career rise can only be described as the stuff of legend. He has been named the Golden Boy, become a World Cup winner, he was also the first teenageer to score in a World Cup final since Pele almost exactly sixty years ago, has been nominated for the Ballon d'Or, won the inaugural Trophee de Kopa, and been established as a bonafide global star - all before he turns 21.

Mbappe has achieved more than most people achieve in three generations in just three years of being a professional footballer, and with him currently leading the race for the European Golden Boot, winning it would only serve as a side bar in what is destined to be an illustrious career.

Kylian Mbappe is the next big thing in football, and it is safe to say that he has the world at his feet (literally).

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Edited by Emeka Monyei
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