Amid Doubts Over PSG Future, Kylian Mbappe Visits Father's Native Cameroon

France's star footballer Kylian Mbappe arrived in Cameroon to an ecstatic welcome from fans Thursday for a visit that includes charity work with deaf children and a trip to his father's village. Many among the hundreds who greeted the 24-year-old forward were dressed in his Paris Saint-Germain team's football jersey for the occasion. They excitedly screamed his name as he emerged from the airport in the capital Yaounde, according to an AFP journalist. A group of about a hundred traditional dancers performed in his honour.

Smiling widely, the footballer waved to the crowd who were kept at a distance by police, before being whisked away in an SUV with tinted windows.

"We are proud to see our Cameroonian brother. We want to offer him a very warm welcome," high-school student Vannel Kunde, 16, enthused.

Mbappe, who is also captain of France's national team, will stay during his visit lasting several days at a hotel complex belonging to the family of French former tennis champion Yannick Noah, who lives in Yaounde.

On Friday, he is due to visit a school for youngsters who are deaf and hard of hearing in the capital's suburbs, according to his itinerary seen by AFP.

He is also set to take part in a basketball game, with expectations it will involve retired NBA player Joakim Noah, the son of Yannick. Later on, he takes part in a football match against second division Cameroon club FC Vent d'Etoudi.

Saturday sees him head to the economic capital, Douala, to visit a school and then go to Djebale, his father Wilfried Mbappe's village. His father left Cameroon at a young age for France where he became a football trainer.

The trip is an opportunity for Mbappe to visit in Yaounde and Douala two schools supported by his own charitable