World Cup Winner Mbappe Donating Bonus of About $350,000
Kylian Mbappe after the FIFA World Cup Russia Final between France and Croatia at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow on July 15, 2018.
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Paris (AP) -- Teenage World Cup winner Kylian Mbappe is giving his bonus to an association that puts sports in the lives of hospitalized children.
The head of Premiers de Cordee (First in Line), Sebastien Ruffin, says two weeks before France clinched the World Cup he was informed that Mbappe would give the group his bonus if the team qualified for the quarterfinals.