Captain Mbappé

We met him as a teenage prodigy. Now, with his PSG teammates Messi and Neymar gone, and a new job as French national team captain, Kylian Mbappé is reckoning with the responsibilities and privileges that come with being the man.

- By Maxime Joly. Photographs by Malick Bodian

At 25, Kylian Mbappé has somehow already. played more than 400 games at the summit. of men's soccer. After breaking through as a teenage sensation at AS Monaco, Mbappé won the World Cup with France at just 19, and in 2017 moved to Paris Saint-Germain for 180 million euros ($215 million). He is already PSG's all-time top scorer; it seems likely that, sooner or later, he'll achieve the same status with the French national team.