{"id":33259,"date":"2026-07-10T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/kylian-mbappe-breaks-another-fifa-world-cup-record-as-he-becomes-the-youngest-ever-to-make-20-appearances-football-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T22:11:14","slug":"kylian-mbappe-breaks-another-fifa-world-cup-record-as-he-becomes-the-youngest-ever-to-make-20-appearances-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/kylian-mbappe-breaks-another-fifa-world-cup-record-as-he-becomes-the-youngest-ever-to-make-20-appearances-football-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kylian Mbappe breaks another FIFA World Cup record as he becomes the youngest ever to make 20 appearances | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132297820,imgsize-116916,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/132297820.jpg\" alt=\"Kylian Mbappe breaks another FIFA World Cup record as he becomes the youngest ever to make 20 appearances\" title=\"France's Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to reach twenty World Cup appearances. He achieved this milestone at twenty-seven years and two hundred one days old. (AP Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"France's Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to reach twenty World Cup appearances. He achieved this milestone at twenty-seven years and two hundred one days old. (AP Photo)\">France&#8217;s Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to reach twenty World Cup appearances. He achieved this milestone at twenty-seven years and two hundred one days old. (AP Photo)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kylian-mbappe\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Kylian Mbappe<\/a> and World Cup records go together like goals and glory and on Thursday night, he added another one to his growing collection.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>When Mbappe took to the pitch for France&#8217;s quarterfinal clash against Morocco in Boston on Thursday, he became the youngest player in history to make 20 appearances at the FIFA World Cup, achieving the milestone at just 27 years and 201 days old.<!-- --> The record had previously belonged to Poland&#8217;s Wladislaw Zmuda, who reached 20 World Cup appearances at 28 years and 34 days during the 1986 tournament in Mexico. Mbappe broke it by nearly a year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The timing of the milestone is fitting. Mbappe made his World Cup debut as a 19-year-old at Russia 2018, helping France lift the trophy in a stunning 4-2 final victory over Croatia, becoming the first teenager since Pele to score in a World Cup final in the process. <!-- -->He returned in Qatar 2022, winning the Golden Boot with eight goals despite France&#8217;s heartbreaking final defeat to Argentina on penalties. Now in 2026, he arrives at the quarterfinals with seven goals already to his name, sitting just two behind Lionel Messi in the Golden Boot race.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Twenty appearances. Three World Cups. One World Cup winner&#8217;s medal. And at 27, he has at least two more World Cups ahead of him.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The record is not the only one Mbappe holds at this tournament. He has already surpassed Miroslav Klose&#8217;s men&#8217;s World Cup goals record, becoming only the second player after Messi to score seven or more goals at two different World Cup editions. He is also the only player in history to score three or more knockout-stage goals at three separate World Cups, a feat achieved against Paraguay in the Round of 16.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Messi holds the outright record for World Cup appearances with 30, set across six tournaments. Mbapp\u00e9, with at minimum two editions still ahead of him, has every chance of chasing that number down too.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>Zmuda played in four World Cups across 12 years to reach his mark. Mbapp\u00e9 reached the same number in three tournaments across eight years.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/football\/fifa-world-cup\/kylian-mbappe-breaks-another-fifa-world-cup-record-as-he-becomes-the-youngest-ever-to-make-20-appearances\/articleshow\/132297820.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s Kylian Mbappe became the youngest player to reach twenty World Cup appearances. He achieved this milestone at twenty-seven years and two hundred one days old. (AP Photo) Kylian Mbappe and World Cup records go together like goals and glory and on Thursday night, he added another one to his growing collection.When Mbappe took to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}