Emmanuel Macron said he “hopes” this Friday that PSG star striker and captain of the France team, Kylian Mbappé, can participate in the Olympics even if the club he is likely to join, Real Madrid, has warned that he would not release his players.
“I hope he will be able to play in the Olympic Games,” said the president to students who asked him about the French football star during a visit to a primary school in Paris.
The captain of the Blues has made known on several occasions his desire to compete in the Paris Games (July 26-August 11). But the Olympic tournament is not part of the Fifa dates, the clubs are not obliged to release their players.
The head of state also declared that he would go to Germany in July for the semi-finals and the final of Euro-2024 if France qualified, as he does at every major football tournament.
“I will go if we are in the semi-finals or the final,” he replied. “The final is July 14! », he also recalled in reference to the national holiday.