For comparison, Messi became the first soccer player to have his yearly salary eclipse $40 million in 2013 — a number the NBA wouldn't pass until Golden State's Stephen Curry made just a shade over $40 million for the 2019-20 season.In 2006, Adidas took Nike to court over the rights to Messi's images, with Nike the official Barcelona sponsor. Family: His father Wilifried was his soccer agent, as well as a coach; he has a younger brother named Adeyemi Mbappe.

With Jorge as his coach, the young Messi competed daily against older brothers Rodrigo and Matias, as well as cousins Maximiliano and Emmanuel Biancucchi, who both became professional soccer players like Lionel.By 4 years old, Messi was playing for local club Grandoli and being shepherded to practices and matches by his beloved grandmother, Celia.Kylian Mbappe was born on Dec. 27, 1998, in Paris, to Wilfried Mbappe and Fayza Lamari. In 2006, France returned to the final and lost to Italy in a shootout — the infamous match where French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane was ejected for headbutting Italy's Marco Materrazi in the chest.Mbappe had grown up watching his national team and looked forward to his opportunity on the world's biggest soccer stage.Lionel Messi's ascension to the Argentina national team and his play with FC Barcelona by the time he was 19 years old drew high praise from those closest to him. Kylian zijn ouders zijn Fayza Lamari (moeder) en Wilfried Mbappé (vader). Bravo, Leo.Kylian Mbappe's post-goal celebration has become iconic in a short period of time — sliding on his knees, arms across his chest, hands tucked under his armpits. Gérard Vivès a refusé de jouer un personnage dans "Fort Boyard", il s'explique Fayza was a renowned handball player who played for AS Bondy in the First Division of France from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. En effet, Fayza est là, présente pour les soutenir et s'assurer que tout se passe aussi bien que possible pour chacun d'entre eux. D'origine algérienne, Fayza est tombée sous le charme de Wilfrid qui est d'origine camerounaise. La maire de Bondy a accepté d'évoquer cette famille qui sort de l'ordinaire au cours d'un entretien accordé au Parisien. Messi paid $5.6 million in back taxes and was fined another $1.8 million.Before the judge, Messi said, "I played football and trusted my father to handle those things. Pele congratulated Mbappe with a simple tweet: "welcome to the club. The biggest sporting event in the world is not the Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series or Stanley Cup. That's when his $221 million contract with Paris Saint-Germain runs out and the next World Cup takes place, in Qatar, with France and Mbappe looking to defend their 2018 title.When Mbappe's transfer does take place or he re-ups with PSG, it will be for one of the largest sums in soccer history.And there's also more of Pele's records to chase. To cap it all off, his mother, two brothers and younger sister decided to leave Spain and move back to Rosario.On the pitch, because of a transfer dispute with Messi's former club, he was only allowed to play in friendlies or Catalan League games.The early reviews on Kylian Mbappe after joining Monaco were best described by club president Vasim Vasilyev: "[Mbappe] sleeps and breathes football. This medical issue threatened to not only destroy his dreams of playing professional soccer, but also keep him from leading a normal life and possibly bankrupt his family with the cost of treatments.It wasn't long before Kylian Mbappe's prodigious soccer talents began to attract attention, with a big influence from his father, AS Bondy youth soccer coach Wilfried, and older brother Jires Kembo Ekoko, who also went on to become a professional soccer player.By 13 years old, Kylian, who idolized Cristiano Ronaldo, was training at France's prestigious Clairefontaine Academy. Fayza Lamari (mother) Kylian with mom, brothers and nephew. Fayza Lamari est la compagne de Wilfrid Mbappé et la mère de Kylian. Maybe, just one, actually — Brazil's Pele, one of the players in the discussion for the greatest player of all time along with Argentina's Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.As a teenager, Mbappe won a World Cup and two Ligue 1 titles, with both Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain. His Instagram account alone has almost 41 million followers (Lionel Messi has over 100 million). Kylian was born into a sporting family. Le jeune homme âgé de 20 ans a réussi à s'imposer comme étant un joueur incontournable de la scène du football en particulier depuis sa participation à la Coupe du Monde 2018. Koh Lanta, Les 4 Terres : Tout sur Alix, une candidate impressionnante de 28 ans At just over 18 years old, he became the second-youngest player to ever earn a cap for France.Mbappe scored his first goal for the senior team in international play against the Netherlands in a World Cup qualifying match in August 2017, then made his final case to be on the World Cup roster with two goals against World Cup host Russia in a friendly in March 2018.Two months later, he was officially named to France's 2018 World Cup roster.Lionel Messi's teenage years were nowhere near as blessed as Kylian Mbappe's one decade later.