Comparing how long it took Kylian Mbappe to reach 500 G+A with Messi & Ronaldo
Real Madrid superstar Kylian Mbappe has become the youngest player in football history to reach the official milestone of 500 combined goals and assists – but how does his record compare to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo?
Mbappe notched the 500 direct goal contribution of his career after scoring his stunning hat-trick to knock Manchester City out of the Champions League.
“The most important thing is winning trophies,” Mbappe told Movistar after producing his 500th goal contribution.
“I’ve scored a lot of goals in my career, but let’s see if it’s all for nothing, because we didn’t always win trophies. If I score a lot of goals and win trophies, I’ll sign for that in blood.”
Messi was also 26 years old, but a month older than Mbappe, when he reached the milestone of 500 goal contributions (359 goals, 141 assists) in style with a hat-trick for Barcelona against Ajax in a September 2013 Champions League group stage match.
Interestingly enough, Ronaldo notched the 500th goal contribution of his professional career only the day before his eternal rival – and also did so with a hat-trick in a Champions League group stage game, scoring three and setting another in a 4-0 mauling of Galatasaray.
But Ronaldo is two and a half years older than Messi and made his professional debut two years earlier.
Real Madrid’s all-time top goalscorer reached 500 goal contributions (372 goals, 130 assists) in over 150 more games than Messi and over 100 more than Mbappe, both of whom enjoyed much more rapid ascents to greatness as youngsters.
Ronaldo was 28 years old when he hit the milestone, doing so over 11 years after his professional debut for boyhood club Sporting. It took Messi and Mbappe eight and nine years respectively.
So Mbappe has a formidable head start on Ronaldo – who was that bit more raw in his early days at Manchester United – if he’s to one day break his records, but it would be a remarkable feat for Real Madrid’s current-day Galactico to enjoy the same longevity and peak in his thirties as his idol did.
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Here’s how the stats stack up in total:
Kylian Mbappe
Games: 492
Age: 26 years, 1 month, 30 days
Time Since Debut: 9 years, 2 months, 17 days
Goals: 358
Penalties: 47
Assists: 142
Minutes per goal: 105
Minutes per non-penalty goal: 121
Minutes per goal or assist: 75.3
Lionel Messi
Games: 468
Age: 26 years, 2 months, 25 days
Time Since Debut: 8 years, 11 months, 2 days
Goals: 359
Penalties: 44
Assists: 141
Minutes per goal: 102
Minutes per non-penalty goal: 116
Minutes per goal or assist: 73
Cristiano Ronaldo
Games: 633
Age: 28 years, 7 months, 12 days
Time Since Debut: 11 years, 1 month, 3 days
Goals: 372
Penalties: 54
Assists: 130
Minutes per goal: 132
Minutes per non-penalty goal: 155
Minutes per goal or assist: 98