Before becoming the professional player and soccer star he is today, Kylian Mbappé received a lot of attention. At the age of 14, he was invited to join the team he admired, Real Madrid, after a week of training in Spain. However, in the end, Mbappé chose Monaco – a team rich in tradition in finding young talent. And until now, this is still considered a right choice for Mbappé.
Also while studying at the AS Monaco football academy, Mbappé and his friends were given an assignment by teachers to design a magazine cover with their own images. The reason this exercise is given is like a reminder for students to sit down and reflect on the future and the person they want to become.
In the academy environment, Mbappé has always been a little different from his friends. His teachers all commented that he was intelligent, poised, confident and more mature than his age. Those are also the things that make male players always stand out.
Magazine cover design exercise for 15-year-old Kylian Mbappé
Even the ideas when doing exercises are the same! Instead of using mockups (models of products, terms commonly used in the field of design) of French Vogue, GQ or Paris Match magazines like you, Mbappé flashed his image design ideas in the magazine. Time magazine. He also chose a very suitable image for himself, looking like a real star in a sitting position, his hands clasped together in front of his chest, his head tilted to one side.
Notably, the main title of the cover is printed boldly in white with the words “El maestro” (the master). In addition, on the magazine cover there are smaller headlines in the corner, describing Mbappé as the best young player in the world, a top priority of the head coach of the French team, a future. of football.
It would become very normal if it were just a simple dream and wish of a confident, talented 15-year-old child. However, this was like a prediction for the future when 4 years after completing that assignment, he actually appeared on the cover of Time magazine. No longer a product of self-design and imagination, this is absolutely true – 19-year-old Mbappé won the 2018 World Cup, becoming the teenage player to score in the final after Pele. At that time, he was also considered the best young player in the world and represented the future of football.
No longer a self-designed product, Mbappé appeared on the cover of Time magazine at the age of 19
In a recent rare interview with the New York Times, Mbappé had the opportunity to look back at that magazine cover image. Without commenting too much, the French player just said: “It’s crazy.” It is known that this is also the word that he often uses to describe his life, the peak milestones that surprise many people. “You know, because when we are 15 years old, we have aspirations,” Mbappé told a New York Times reporter. Every child has aspirations. But when it happened just a few years later, everything was crazy.”
Until now, when he is already a soccer superstar, a fashion mogul with countless expensive advertising contracts or a world-class player, his 15-year-old aspirations quickly became reality. The truth at the age of 19 was still something very “crazy” and unimaginable.
Mbappé won the 2022 World Cup Golden Shoe
Many people think that it seems to be a pre-arranged life for Mbappé. From a boy in the suburbs of Paris to the most talented football player in the world. Currently, at the age of 23 years and 363 days, he scored a hat trick in the final and became the top scorer at the 2022 World Cup. Although he only won the runner-up position, in the hearts of fans, Mbappé is always an “average person”. usually” in a special way. Because rarely is anyone destined to become a star before the age of 15, a professional player at the age of 16, a national treasure at the age of 24 – truly “crazy” and not normal.
