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Mbappé Is The Best Player In The World. Another World Cup Would Make It Undeniable.

Remember the coronation that never quite happened? A few years ago, Kylian Mbappé was the consensus heir. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo would eventually ride off, and the kid from Bondy — a World Cup winner as a teenager, the first teenager to score in a final since Pelé — would inherit the throne. In 2022, he nearly took it by force: a Golden Boot, a hat trick in the final, one of the great individual World Cups ever played. Argentina lifted the trophy anyway, and the narrative moved on without him. Four years later, it's time to move it back. Mbappé, at 27, is the best player in the wor...