Ballon d’Or, Champions League, Pelé’s 1,000 goals: how far can Kylian Mbappé go?

In the meantime, the native of Bondy has gleaned since his arrival in the capital in 2017 a World Cup, five French championship titles, three French Cups and five top scorer trophies in Ligue 1. Above all, he has achieved last weekend the impressive mark of 300 goals scored in his career before his 25th birthday which he will celebrate on December 20. Paradoxically, the captain of the Blues still has many challenges to accomplish “to finish the game”.

The Golden Ball

Neymar dreamed of it. Mbappé wants to make it happen. If the Brazilian had joined PSG a few months before him, it was with the aim of getting rid of the shadow of Lionel Messi to win a Golden Ball. The injuries and extra-sporting escapades of the Auriverde prevented him from doing so.

The Frenchman avoids his pitfalls. With a hat-trick in the World Cup final, there is no doubt that he would have won this distinction on October 31 to the detriment of Messi. “On the evening of December 18, I knew that Messi had won the World Cup and the Ballon d’Or. Everyone knew it, he reacted last week at a press conference. He deserves it. When Messi wins a World Cup, Messi must win the Ballon d’Or. He is one of the best players in history, if not the best. It’s certain that I had a great season but in the face of a World Cup won by Messi, it doesn’t carry much weight.”

La Pulga can no longer legitimately claim a ninth coronation with its transfer to Miami, the way opens for the former Monegasque who sees Erling Haaland as his main competitor. The Euro will constitute, in addition to the Champions League, the justice of the peace where the Norwegian will not have a say. It remains to be wary of Jude Bellingham. “I’m not afraid that the Ballon d’Or will escape me in my career”ensures the number 7 of the French champion.

A transfer for the Champions League?

A European Championship that he has never won and where he will be keen to shine after his missed shot on goal against Switzerland which caused the elimination in the round of 16 of Didier Deschamps’ men in the previous editing. Not yet in the selection when France failed in the final against Portugal in 2016, Mbappé has revenge to take in this competition where his national team is favorite.

Will he know, when he starts the competition on June 14, which club he will play for? At the end of his contract on June 30 with the Parisians, the Ile-de-France resident will settle his future before the competition at the latest. “This is absolutely not the news from the France team. If you have this question, come and ask me at the Campus and I will answer it if I have to come to a press conference”he slipped mischievously in recent days.

Always as unpredictable and excellent in his communication, the star could tire if PSG, in difficulty in the Champions League, sees its journey stopped prematurely once again. Would a seventh unsuccessful attempt finally send him to Real who are adopting a strange game with him? Signing for Casa Blanca would, on paper, be the best way to put all the chances on your side to one day lift the most prestigious European competition.

The 1,000 goal mark

A fantasy that only Pelé would have managed to overcome by counting in his own way (the Brazilian star also counted his goals scored during the numerous “gala” matches, therefore friendly, of Santos) even if, according to the sources and the less precise statistics at During his time, it is estimated that Pelé actually scored some 756 goals in official matches.

Pelé, king of scorers and nightmare of statisticians

Generally speaking, the 1,000 goal mark seems unattainable even if we play more and more matches today. For comparison, Messi had to wait until he was 25 years and 122 days old and Cristiano Ronaldo until he was 27 years and 91 days old to reach the figure of 300 achievements that Mbappé achieved at 24 years and 333 days old. “There are players who have scored 800 goals, others 850. 300 goals compared to that is ridiculous. It’s a step and I want to continue to be decisive,” he tempers.

A step towards 1,000 goals? Currently, the counter of the 36-year-old Argentinian displays 824 units, that of the 37-year-old Portuguese, 859. Can he do as well as Pelé whose passing times at the same age as Mbappé do not exist because of the statistics non-existent at the time? If he reaches his peak form, like Messi and Ronaldo, in four years and he is preserved by injuries, there is no doubt that 1,000 goals will not constitute a utopia.