Kylian Mbappe has opted to donate his earnings from France's triumphant 2018 Fifa World Cup campaign to charity, reports CNBC.com.
The 19-year-old French forward made roughly $22,300 each game this World Cup, plus a reported $350,000 bonus for winning the final, which adds up to over $500,000, and he'll be donating that sum to charity.
France's Kylian Mbappe is donating his #WorldCup winnings to a Paris charity https://t.co/qd1YKcnfpe pic.twitter.com/L5tDDeQsUT
— CNN (@CNN) July 18, 2018
It might only be a fraction of his total salary — he gets paid $1.7m a month by his club team, Paris-Saint Germain — but half a million dollars could mean a lot to the Premiers de Cordees, an association that organizes sporting events for children with disabilities.
“Kylian, he's a great person,” said Sebastien Ruffin, general manager of Premiers de Cordee. “When his schedule allows it, he intervenes for us with pleasure."
Kylian Mbappe is donating all of his World Cup earnings to a children's charity ? https://t.co/BYPIcMugRS pic.twitter.com/NqLNGHtJrT
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 16, 2018
"He has a very good [relationship] with children, he always finds the right [words] to encourage them. I sometimes even feel that [he] takes more pleasure to play with the kids than the kids themselves.”
Not too long ago, Mbappe was a boy himself, living in the poor Parisian suburb of Bondy and returning home after soccer practice to a bedroom adorned with posters of his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo.
The money will go toward providing disabled and hospitalized children with sports programs. https://t.co/zalWOtBPmE
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) July 18, 2018
Now he is a starting forward for the French national team and the youngest player since Pele to score a goal in the World Cup final.
