Kylian Mbappé now sees his influence happily extending beyond the borders of football. The proof…
2018 world champion, 2022 world vice-champion having finished the tournament as top scorer, Kylian Mbappé has been speaking and playing internationally for many years now. His influence continues to grow outside the football field. This is evidenced by this study carried out by the British sports betting platform OLBD revealing the identity of the most sought-after athletes on the Web.
Between September 2022 and August 2023, 199.4 million Google searches were carried out on Cristiano Ronaldo – the Portuguese who, despite his exile in Saudi Arabia, still sits on this ranking of notoriety and popularity. CR7 counterparts Neymar and Lionel Messi complete the podium with respectively 140.9 million and 104.4 million dedicated queries on the search engine benchmark.
In front of Djokovic and Hamilton
And Kylian Mbappé in all this? The captain of the Blues stands out as the fourth most searched footballer with 63.7 million quotes recorded over the year observed. All sports combined, the PSG striker ranks sixth, behind NBA star LeBron James and Indian cricket player Virat Kohli but ahead of tennis players Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic or F1 driver Lewis Hamilton.
The Top 10 athletes searched on Google:
1 – Cristiano Ronaldo: 199.4 million searches
2 – Neymar: 140.9 million
3 – Lionel Messi: 104.4 million
4 – LeBron James: 72.1 million
5 – Virat Kohli: 68 million
6 – Kylian Mbappé: 63.7 million
7 – Carlos Alcaraz: 60 million
8 – Novak Djokovic: 58.4 million
9 – Erling Haaland: 43.4 million
10 – Lewis Hamilton: 34.9 million
