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Like a boomerang.
Interviewed on Brazilian television last spring, Kylian Mbappé indulged in criticizing the level of football in South America.
Level which, in essence, did not favor the performances of Argentina and Brazil at the World Cup.
Words which, of course, resurfaced before the final between “his” Blues and Albiceleste on Sunday (4 p.m.), in Lusail.
The question was posed to Emiliano Martinez, Argentina goalkeeper.
"
He doesn't know enough about football.
He never played in South America.
When you don't have this experience, it may be better not to talk about it… But it doesn't matter.
We are a great team, recognized as such
, ”squeaks the last bastion of Aston Villa.
Response from the shepherd to the shepherdess, even if in the end, the remarks of the Paris-SG striker were neither offensive nor false on the merits.
He is all the better placed to say it since it has often been said that PSG was not favored by the level of Ligue 1 with a view to the Champions League, that it was not tested enough, not quite shaken up.
The Argentinian is proud.
"Kyk's" will pay to see Sunday...
Football is not as advanced as in Europe.
Kylian Mbappé in May 2022
On
TNT
, Bondy's crack had said this: “
The advantage we have in Europe is that we play among ourselves with high-level matches all the time, such as the League of Nations for example.
When we arrive at the World Cup, we are ready, where Brazil and Argentina do not have this level in South America.
Football is not as advanced as in Europe.
That's why at the last World Cups, it's always the Europeans who win.
" Charge to Kylian Mbappé to ensure that this good European series continues at the World Cup ... Emiliano Martinez, he will take pleasure in showing him what wood we are warming up in South America.
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