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PSG: Kylian Mbappé, already seated at the table of the greatest

2021-02-18T05:19:14.093Z


The world champion is already one of the great players in the world of football. To settle down and climb again, he will need


Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have dominated the world of football, the most individual of team sports, since 2008. That year, the Portuguese, now 36 for two weeks, won the first of his five Ballon d'Or France Soccer.

The following eleven editions have all been nabbed by him (five times) or his close rival, the Argentinian, at the top six individual awards.

Messi, 34 this June, is still considered the best player in the world today.

Only once, in 2018, a man has cracked this geopolitics of the stars, Luka Modric.

But at 33, the midfielder was no threat, just the best that season in European champion Real Madrid and vice-world champion Croatia.

7th, 4th and 6th between 2017 and 2019, Kylian Mbappé inexorably approaches the trophy that the geniuses of the planet dream of.

At 22, he can legitimately imagine gleaning at least one, even if the idea is still to stack as many as possible.

"He's the guy who's going to take the throne from them when they're done," said former England international Rio Ferdinand, consultant for British channel BT Sport.

"I do not know if we can speak of transfer of power but it looks like it, confides Jean-Pierre Papin, Golden Ball in 1991. Messi was the king a few years ago.

We may not have found a new king, but we have the new prince.

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Since his title of world champion, the Parisian crack sits at the table of the greatest, among guests named Messi and CR7, Luka Modric therefore but also Karim Benzema, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Mohamed Salah or Robert Lewandowski.

Alain Giresse, second in the Ballon d'Or in 1982, does not agree if we reduce the scope to the two phenomena alone.

“Mbappé is not far away.

But the problem is that Messi and Cristiano set the bar very high to get the entry ticket.

“Still, it mixes without mismatching in this oligarchy players who weigh and count, capable of rocking meetings by their inspirations.

"I see it as a Ballon d'Or in 2021"

This world is a long-term one.

It is through the repetition of their exploits, gestures and of course goals that they impose themselves as monsters of European and world football.

Obviously, this is what is still lacking in Kylian Mbappé both because he is younger, because he does not succeed everything yet or because PSG does not always offer him a collective framework in which to express himself well. .

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“Its qualities cannot be discussed because they are high,” adds Papin.

Kylian needs to score goals regularly and once in a while he has to make a splash like in Barcelona.

The only problem is that we will ask him the same performance all the time as at Camp Nou.

He has set the bar so high that we will have the same demands with him every time, but those who have played football know that this is not possible.

He just needs to be consistent and he won't be far this year from winning it.

Yes, I can see it as a Ballon d'Or in 2021. "

“Whoever passes 6 m on the pole, the day he crosses 5.80 m, we are not happy while it remains enormous”, image Giresse.

The attacker is sometimes admired as much for what he achieves as for what we project on him.

It is the present but also the future, giving signs of a lasting installation on the roof of the world.

For that, he will need not to be seriously injured and choose the right club or clubs after PSG if he leaves him one day.

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A healthy lifestyle outside of the nails and badly negotiated turns cut off the momentum, from Michael Owen to Eden Hazard, yet promised to better destinies.

Repetition creates permanence, which establishes a form of truth.

The higher and longer he remains, the more Mbappé will freeze his reign, until he naturally asserts himself in the decor, even among his detractors.

A few weeks ago, it was a question of debating in France on whether he had regressed at PSG.

Its despisers are still on the prowl and they will come and point out each drop in speed. “His teammates are going to help him because they know that what he achieved on Tuesday nobody can replicate in the team except Neymar. It has the power to be decisive ”, assures Giresse. Everything always depends on others, too, in football. “What will make him grow even more are the players around him,” says Papin. Against Barcelona, ​​I saw Mbappé but above all I saw a real team. It had been a long time since I had such a confident training of his strength. By keeping these standards, Mbappé is not about to get up from the table.

Source: leparis

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