The current football superstar, Kylian Mbappé, attracted a lot of attention before turning pro. After a week of training in Spain, he was invited to join his favorite football team, Real Madrid, at the age of 14. Mbappé ultimately decided to sign with Monaco, a team with a long history of discovering new talent. And even now, Mbappé is still regarded as having made the right decision.
Additionally, Mbappé and his buddies were given a project to create magazine covers using their own images while attending the AS Monaco football academy. The purpose of this activity is to urge students to take some time to consider their future selves and who they want to become.
In the academy environment, Mbappé was always a little different from his friends. His teachers all commented that he was intelligent, poised, confident, and more mature than his years. Those are also the things that make male players always stand out.
Even in the ideas when doing exercises! Instead of using mockups (models of products, commonly used terms in the design field) of French Vogue, GQ or Paris Match magazines like you, Mbappé flashed her image design ideas in the Time magazine. He also chose his own image very well, posing as a real star in a sitting position, hands clasped in front of his chest, head tilted to one side.
15-year-old Kylian Mbappé’s magazine cover design exercise
Notably, the main title of the cover is bolded in white with the words “El maestro” (the master). In addition, on the cover of the magazine there are smaller headlines in the corner, describing Mbappé as the best young player in the world, a priority for the head coach of the French national team, a future of football.
It would become very normal if it was just a dream, a mere wish of a confident, talented 15-year-old child. However, this is like a prediction of the future when 4 years after completing that assignment, he actually appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
No longer a product of design and imagination, this is absolutely true – 19-year-old Mbappé, winner of the 2018 World Cup, became a teenager scoring 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 rare recent interview with the New York Times, Mbɑppé had the opportunity to look bɑck at that image of the magazine cover. Without commenting too much, the French player just said: “It’s crɑzy”. It is known that this is also the word that he often uses to describe his life, the peak milestones that sᴜrprised many people.
Mbappé told a New York Times reporter: “You know, because when we’re 15, we have aspirations. Every child has aspirations. But when that happens after only a few years, it’s just crɑzy.”
Mbappe is a model for many fashion brands
Until now, when he was a soccer superstar, a fashion tycoon with countless expensive advertising contracts or a world-class player, his 15-year-old aspirations quickly became the trᴜth at the age of 19 is still something very “crɑzy” and utopian.
Mbappé won the Golden Shoe of the World Cup 2022 but couldn’t touch the gold cup
Many people think that it seems to be the arrangement of life for Mbappé. From a boy in the suburbs of Paris to the most talented football in the world. Currently at 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 has always been an “ordinary person” in a special way. Because it is rare for anyone to be shaped into a star before the age of 15, a professional player at the age of 16, a national treasure at the age of 24 – really “crɑzy” and not normal.