Mbappé shares collector photo with icon Zidane from his childhood

Kylian Mbappé, the captain of the French national football team, shared a nostalgic childhood photo on Instagram, capturing a moment from his youth when he met football icon Zinédine Zidane. The image, posted during his summer break before rejoining Real Madrid, shows a young Mbappé alongside Zidane, who is now his national team manager.

While the exact date and location of the photo remain unspecified, it is believed to have been taken in the 2000s. At the time, Zidane, a 1998 World Cup champion, was participating in a promotional event. Mbappé, born in 1998, seized the opportunity to meet "ZZ" for the first time.

This throwback picture also brings to mind another significant encounter from Mbappé's teenage years. In 2012, Zidane invited the aspiring footballer to Real Madrid's training center. There, Mbappé met his idol, Cristiano Ronaldo, a moment immortalized in another iconic photograph. Mbappé revealed in his autobiographical comic book, "Je m’appelle Kylian," that Zidane himself took this second memorable picture.