Kylian Mbappé closes in on Olivier Giroud’s goalscoring record, and crypto has learned to sit this one out

Kylian Mbappé stands one goal away from tying Olivier Giroud as France’s all-time leading scorer. He’s done it in roughly two-thirds the number of appearances it took Giroud to set the mark.

Mbappé has netted 56 goals in 97 caps for Les Bleus. Giroud’s record sits at 57 goals, accumulated over 137 appearances. Mbappé’s scoring rate of 0.57 goals per game dwarfs Giroud’s 0.42.

The record chase in context

Mbappé has needed 40 fewer caps than Giroud to reach essentially the same number of goals.

Giroud himself seems to have made peace with the inevitable. The former record holder said in October 2025 that he hopes Mbappé reaches 100 goals for the national team.

Giroud expressed his hope that Mbappé will reach 100 goals for Les Bleus.

France is set to co-host the upcoming World Cup, meaning Mbappé could be chasing new milestones on home soil.

Mbappé burst onto the international scene as a teenager at the 2018 World Cup, where France won the trophy. He followed that up by reaching the 2022 final with a hat trick against Argentina.

Why crypto investors should remember the Mbappé meme coin saga

Mbappé served as an ambassador for Sorare, an Ethereum-based fantasy football NFT platform. In 2024, a Solana-based meme token loosely associated with Mbappé’s name briefly rocketed to a $464 million market cap before collapsing shortly after.

What’s notable about Mbappé’s current record chase is the silence from the crypto side. No new tokens have materialized around the milestone. No NFT drops timed to his 99th cap.

What this separation means for the intersection of sports and digital assets

Sorare still operates. Fan tokens still exist on various platforms. But the speculative frenzy that once accompanied every headline-worthy athletic achievement appears to have subsided.

The $464 million Mbappé-adjacent token that evaporated should serve as a permanent bookmark in any speculator’s playbook. World Cup cycles historically drive user activity on fantasy sports platforms and sports-adjacent dApps, which is a fundamentally different thesis than buying a token because a famous person’s name is in the ticker symbol.

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