No vacation for Kylian Mbappé, and especially no media vacation.
The Paris Saint-Germain striker, who is currently enjoying a few well-deserved days off after a grueling season, saw this once again when he read this morning the interview given by Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) at the JDD.
In it, he assures that after the elimination of the Blues against Switzerland last June during the Euro, Mbappé was "angry, he no longer wanted to play for the France team", and explaining that the player " found that the Federation had not defended him after his missed penalty and the criticism on the networks.
A new conflicting episode between Mbappé and the FFF
Words to which the French international was quick to respond on Twitter.
“Yes finally I explained to him above all well that it was in relation to racism and NO to the penalty, he tweeted.
But he considered that there had been no racism…”.
A flood of insults, in particular racist, had followed Kylian Mbappé's missed penalty, to the point that a complaint had been filed by SOS Racisme following the meeting.
Last summer, Noël Le Graët had rightly offered himself general indignation when he declared on BFM that “The racist phenomenon in sport, and in football in particular, does not exist or hardly exists”.
Words that he had clarified later, but that he had always assumed.
Yes finally I explained to him above all well that it was in relation to racism and NO to the penalty.
But he considered that there had been no racism… https://t.co/wZ1nQfb4l4
— Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) June 19, 2022
This exchange by interposed declarations puts a piece in the machine of the somewhat tense relations in recent weeks between Kylian Mbappé and the three Fs, as much marked by the post-Euro as by the episode of the player's image rights, which had refused to participate in a marketing operation with the Blues and had triggered a major debate on the management of these rights in his career and in football in general.
"Football has changed, you know it better than me," he said during his extension with Paris Saint-Germain.
There's a new wave, and it's just giving a peek into what our name is associated with.
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