{"id":6683,"date":"2026-07-14T23:45:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2026-07-14T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T23:45:26","slug":"kylian-mbappe-misses-the-final-but-he-is-already-a-world-cup-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=6683","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 Misses The Final, But He Is Already A World Cup Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            POPULAR SEARCHES\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>With France\u2019s 2026 FIFA World Cup run ending in the semifinals on Tuesday, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 will have to wait four more years for another chance at his second World Cup title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>France fell to Spain 2-0 in the semifinals, denying Mbapp\u00e9 a third straight World Cup final appearance after reaching the championship match in both 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>When he burst onto the scene in 2018, Mbapp\u00e9 was just 19 years old. He became the youngest French player ever to score at a World Cup and only the second teenager in history to score in a World Cup final, joining Pel\u00e9\u2019s iconic feat in 1958.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Now, eight years later, the French superstar has broken all different kinds of World Cup records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14>Here\u2019s a detailed look at Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s performance across his first three World Cup appearances, along with the records he has already set during his remarkable international career. Keep in mind, he can add to these totals with France&#8217;s third-place match still to come, on July 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-a2155f14><i>This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners. If you sign up or place a wager, FOX Sports may be compensated. Read more about <\/i><i><u>Sports Betting on FOX Sports<\/u><\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span>Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 has scored 20 goals in 21 World Cup games overall, the second-most all-time behind Lionel Messi (Getty Images).<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> <!--&gt;<\/p>\n\n--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POPULAR SEARCHES BROWSE BY With France\u2019s 2026 FIFA World Cup run ending in the semifinals on Tuesday, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 will have to wait four more years for another chance at his second World Cup title.\u00a0 France fell to Spain 2-0 in the semifinals, denying Mbapp\u00e9 a third straight World Cup final appearance after reaching the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}