Kylian Mbappé continues to collect historic achievements for fun, now becoming the youngest player this century to reach the 400-goal mark in his career.
The 26-year-old forward scored a brace in France’s 4–0 victory over Ukraine to secure Les Bleus'spot in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But Mbappé's second signified something much more than an exclamation point on his performance—it marked the 400th time he found the back of the net in his illustrious career.
No player in the 21st century has reached this milestone faster than the Real Madrid star. In fact, the only player in history to score 400 goals before turning 26 is Pelé. The Brazilian legend, who many still consider as the greatest of all time, reached the landmark at 23 years old.
The comparisons between Pelé and Mbappé have been constantly made ever since the Frenchman became only the second teenager ever to score in a FIFA World Cup final in 2018, replicating what the Brazilian did in the 1958 final.
Mbappé's quest to reach the 400th goal of his career was aided by a fantastic start to the 2025–26 season in which he's scored 23 goals in 20 appearances for club and country.
Daphoenix23
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Fifa should just arrange this guys Ballon D’or and stop with all the funny agenda of pushing Yamal into the convo.. Injuries aside, there’s no university where Yamal is a better player to Mbappe in anything at all…. In fact Yamal shouldn’t even be close to the convo cos Mbappe, Vini, Haaland, Salah (even though they never gave him the recognition he deserved so far), Dembele, Raphinah and even Cole Palmer are ahead of him. But thanks to FIFA and Barca plan of trying to sell an 18 year old as the face of football when he hasn’t done anything we’ve not seen before, he ranked second in the last Ballon D’or and his peeps even have the guts to play the “he was robbed of the award” card… Yamal still has a lot of growth to do… he’s good no doubt but not yet close to the conversation.. He needs space or keep growing and be shielded from all the media noise left and right.. Though he has a marketable brand and influence.. so i understand all the noise around him but not the football..
Noobdery
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haland is coming