Tuesday evening, Kylian Mbappé impressed.
And not just on the field.
After his late goal and the victory of Paris Saint-Germain against Real Madrid (1-0), in the knockout stages of the Champions League, the French striker went through the traditional mixed zone.
He responded to French but also Spanish media.
The opportunity for him to show off his mastery of foreign languages at the microphone of the
Movistar
channel .
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Many football fans took to social media to make fun of the video.
“
Mbappé speaks better Spanish than Gareth Bale and Sergio Ramos
,” joked a Real Madrid fan, whose tweet received more than 20,000 “likes”.
"
In 3 months in Spain he knows Julio Iglesias' repertoire by heart
", predicts the quirky French media Fédé de la lose.
“
It proves that he is taking lessons.
There are no more doubts about his destiny next season
, ”revels another Madrid supporter.
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Mbappé who speaks Spanish is nothing new.
Last year, he got carried away against Jordi Alba in the middle of a match, in the mother tongue of the Barcelona native.
“
In the street, I smash you
,” he had told her.
Last January at the microphone of
Amazon
, Mbappé (22) had justified his notions in English and Spanish: "
(My Spanish) is very good but it's because I wanted to be a great football player, a public figure.
Today, you can't want to be an international star and only speak French.
That does not make any sense.
[…] If it helps me (in another club), so much the better, we're not going to miss it.
This is not what will quell the rumors of a signing for Real Madrid next summer.