The will still exists, the feasibility much less.
Unless the situation turns around, Kylian Mbappé will not participate from July 21 to August 7 in the Tokyo Olympic Games football tournament, postponed to this summer due to the pandemic.
Before the outbreak of Covid 19, the world champion dreamed of participating in this adventure, the first for a French team since 1996 and the Atlanta Olympics.
There were then several mixed feelings: his love for the Olympic spirit, its history, its mythological side, fueled by parents who were themselves very fond of sport;
his pleasure to evolve among his family when at 22 years old, he theoretically still belongs to this category of selectable players;
his desire to win everything, to grab a gold medal, a possibility that does not pass every morning.
The season is still long
The world has changed since.
The virus is reshuffling the cards.
The seasons are compressed at a time when UEFA and Fifa are trying by all means to make up for lost time, by stacking as many matches as possible.
The Blues are going through this week a sequence punctuated by three international meetings counting for the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup. Three outings in eight days, one week away from the Champions League quarterfinals which will concern the PSG striker and some partners like Raphaël Varane (Real Madrid) or Olivier Giroud (Chelsea).
The season is still long hoped for on the side of PSG.
Committed on all fronts, the capital club is aiming for at least the semi-final of the Champions League, has just (re) taken the lead in L1, at the same time as it awaits its opponent for the quarter-finals of the Coupe de France.
With Presnel Kimpembe, Mbappé will also play Euro 2020, also postponed to this summer, from June 11 to July 11.
To follow up with the Olympics would weigh down his agenda.
Even if he likes to play everything, even if he has just turned 22 in December 2020, Mbappé knows that sometimes it is necessary to spare, take vacations, breathe, regenerate.
Three weeks after the Euro will not be too much after a 2020-2021 exercise where he happened to stigmatize the cadences imposed on his sport.
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His summer depends above all on a huge unknown: his future.
2021 may be the year of departure, after four years in Paris and the choice of a new club.
A transfer could be negotiated just before or just after the Euro, an event that would collide head-on with the Tokyo Olympics.
On this file, the president of the French Federation, Noël Le Graët, recently re-elected for four years, varied, opening and closing the door without being able to define his real position.
During one of his last statements, he mixed up several of them, for example asserting to
Point on March 6: “I know that Kylian Mbappé was thinking of going there, and I welcome this approach.
I would love.
Seeing a young player of this quality talking about the Olympics, I think it's great.
After, if we look closely at the calendar, it is very busy between the France team and Paris Saint-Germain.
To have.
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Since the desire still exists, Kylian Mbappé has postponed his dreams to ... 2024. Organizer of the event through the city of Paris, France is sure to participate in the tournament.
In the summer of 2024, the prodigy will not yet be 26 years old and still have the possibility of appearing in the selection in the quota of players who have exceeded the age.
He will not compromise on his presence at the Paris Olympics, made even more important, escorted by enormous impatience, by the impasse of 2021. His next club, whether it be PSG or another, is already warned.
