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? The news had leaked from Monday evening, before being confirmed in the evening by the first channel. Some have hastily imagined that the 22-year-old world champion could make a big announcement about his future, he whose contract runs until 2022 and who will have to decide in the coming weeks between an extension to PSG and a transfer for the next offseason, at Real Madrid or elsewhere. Others have thought of an ambassadorial role, for example for the Covid-19 vaccination. Except that it was not more a question of one subject than the other. Gilles Bouleau did not question the Parisian about the return of Karim Benzema in Blue either. And for good reason, the interview was recorded Monday evening, on the eve of the disclosure of Didier Deschamps' list for Euro 2020 (June 11-July 11).
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About the Euro, Mbappé has precisely expressed his overwhelming ambition. “The goal is always the same for a nation like ours, a great football nation. It is to try to win this competition, to do honor to all French people by trying to give the best of ourselves and by playing as a team, as we always used to do ”, assures us -he. And to add: "The double World Cup-Euro? Who doesn't dream of it? This is the case for many French people. I'm no exception ... Of course, we want to win. We always want to win. It would be an extraordinary achievement to achieve this double. We will prepare well. We used the experience of 2018 to continue to progress and give the best of ourselves. We'll try to play our game like we've always doneand come away with victory. ” As the Blues did at Euro 2000, two years after the 1998 world title at the Stade de France.
Mbappé dribbles the question about the Olympic Games
And the Olympic Games (July 23-August 8)?
This was the other burning question to ask Mbappé.
And that one could be asked.
Except that the person concerned did not answer it exactly… “Everyone knows that I have always dreamed of playing the Olympic Games, it is a big dream for me.
After that, I don't decide, ”he slips.
It remains to be seen who will decide.
Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and the bosses of the Parisian club?
Florentino Perez or the president of a foreign formation?
“I really hope that I will be able to play the Games at least once in my life,” adds Mbappé, who we imagine salivating in advance at the idea of playing the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
"The Golden Ball is a goal for any player who aspires to be the best, and I am one of them"
Kylian Mbappé
For the rest, the Bondynois is not frightened by a potential XXL transfer, he who had gone from Monaco to Paris for € 180 million bonus included in 2017. "This money is not going in my pocket", he smiles, hammering moreover, his desire to win collective titles before thinking about individual consecrations.
“After that, of course the Golden Ball is a goal for any player who aspires to be the best, and I'm one of them.
It's one of my goals, but it's too presumptuous to talk about it because football is a team sport, ”he says.
A modesty not even shaken by the recurring praise of Pelé: "When the King of football talks about you in this way, it's nice ... I think that should encourage me to work well."
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- Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) May 18, 2021
In this case, Kylian Mbappé is working to better prepare for the final of the Coupe de France, Wednesday (9:15 pm), in Saint-Denis, between “his” PSG and AS Monaco.
The surest opportunity to win a title this season with the capital club, knowing that the Rouge et Bleu no longer have their destiny in their hands in the French league (the ranking here) before the last day, next Sunday .
The Parisian people in joy Wednesday, before the country in July?
End of season, return to normal life for at least a few weeks? Not for Mbappé. Already because the rally in the France team will not be long. And also because the number 7 of the PSG is what it is, that is to say a world icon. “(My life) is a little different from normal people, but I'm happy with the life I lead,” he smiles. I am not to be pitied. Of course, sometimes I would like to have a little more privacy. It's normal. I am a human being like everyone else. I think it would be wrong to complain ... I have a life that I have always dreamed of having. There are advantages and disadvantages but I am very happy like that and I hope to breathe my joie de vivre everywhere on and off the pitches. ” With a success Wednesday at the Stade de France,Mbappé would already give a smile to the Parisian people. Before getting the whole country up during the Euro?
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