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Kylian Mbappe: Is The UEFA Champions League Coming Soon?

Kylian Mbappe is the best person to answer, is the UEFA Champions League coming soon? The young French star and icon is on presently on global football ascendancy. Mbappe's name continues to dominate major football headlines even after France narrowly lost out a back-to-back honour of defending the FIFA World Cup that ended on Sunday, December 18 in Qatar.

Mbappé already has a FIFA World Cup title to his credit, in which he won at Russia in 2018. The PSG lethal winger played a key role in that World Cup, where he scored a goal in the final match, and ended the tournament with four goals.

Kylian Mbappe scores hat trick in 2022 FIFA World Cup final
Kylian Mbappe scores hat trick in 2022 FIFA World Cup final match

In the just concluded Qatar FIFA World Cup, Mbappe banged a hat trick in the final match. Geoff Hurst was the first man to score a hat trick in a FIFA World Cup final. Hurst scored three goals against West Germany in England's 4-2 victory over the German Machines at the 1966 FIFA World Cup tournament hosted by the English nation. Mbappe, therefore become the second football player to score a hat trick after Hurst.

One record Mbappe has now made in FIFA World Cup history is that he is the first and currently the only footballer with four World Cup final goals (one in 2018 and three in 2022).

Kylian Mbappe wins 2018 FIFA World Cup
Kylian Mbappe wins 2018 FIFA World Cup

As Mbappe turns 24 today, Tuesday, December 20,  the lightning fast player has some astonishing football records he could break soon. One of such is that Mbappe is five goals away from becoming the all-time leading scorer in the history of the FIFA World Cup. The current all-time record holder is retired German World Cup winner, Miroslav Klose, with 16 goals. Mbappe already has 12 FIFA World Cup goals.

Another record is that the pacy striker is 18 goals away from becoming France's all-time leading scorer. He will overtake current holder of the record, Olivier Giroud, if the latter retires from international football soon without scoring again.

Also, Mbappe is 11 goals short from becoming PSG's all-time leading goalscorer.

Barring any major injury blow or unforeseen circumstances, Mbappe, now 24 years old, could play active football for at least 10 years, and break existing goal records.

In all the above mentioned successes of Mbappe regarding his goalscoring instinct, he still needs to win the UEFA Champions League in the next three to four seasons. If he does not achieve this feat before he retires, then his name will not be mentioned among the all-time football legends.

Is the UEFA Champions League coming soon for Mbappe
Is the UEFA Champions League coming soon for Kylian Mbappe?

There is still much time for the Frenchman to win the Champions League either with his current club, PSG or if he moves to a bigger European club side.

One thing to take note is that winning the UEFA Champions League is as difficult as winning the FIFA World Cup. To some football pundits, they believe, the Champions League is even more difficult to win than the FIFA World Cup. Whether the Champions League is more difficult or not, the ball is in the court of Mbappe to prove his critics wrong that he would win Europe's Elite Clubs' Title in a few years from now, and cement his name among the all-time greats.

Oladele Hakeem Olaniyan, who lives in Nigeria wrote this article.

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