There’s a picture of Kylian Mbappe that you’ve probably seen over the past few days. It shows the star of France’s last 16 win over Argentina sat on his bed as a 14-year-old. Behind him, his bedroom walls are papered with posters of Cristiano Ronaldo. Mbappe is a self-proclaimed fan of the Portuguese forward, modelling his game after him. Now, at this World Cup, he might just have made the jump up to his hero’s level. Of course, Mbappe was already a star before arriving in Russia this summer. His move to Paris Saint-Germain might just have been made permanent this summer, spending last season on loan from Monaco, but the paperwork on the £166 million switch was signed and sealed last year. That was a down payment on Mbappe’s enormous potential. A sign of what is expected of him. Before that, he became the youngest player to score 13 goals in Ligue 1, usurping Thierry Henry’s previous record. At Monaco, he also became the youngest player to score twice in a Champions League knockout match, bagging a brace against Borussia Dortmund and backing that up the following season by becoming the youngest player to reach the 10-goal mark in the competition. And yet despite all these warnings, all these signposts, this World Cup, and the last 16 game against Argentina, will go down as a coming of age moment for Mbappe. The moment he announced himself not just as a superstar of the future, but a superstar of the present. This is a thread France, as a team, will be looking to follow all the way to the final. Not since they last won the World Cup in 1998, when Zinedine Zidane’s face adorned the Arc de Triomphe amid a ticker-tape celebration in the centre of Paris for the side dubbed ‘The Rainbow Team,’ have France boasted such a talented group of players. From front to back, left to right, they possess pedigree.