Kylian Mbappé to Real Madrid, the transfer is likely to happen, although the French team has managed to keep its crown jewel, at least another year.
The relationship between Kylian Mbappé and Madrid
Real Madrid first recruited a boy who grew up in Bondy, a poor suburb of France named Kylian Mbappé, when he was just 13 years old. French football icon, Real Madrid legend, Los Merengues sports director Zinedine Zidane at that time heard about this talented teenager and he really wanted to meet him.
“My father got a call from someone at Real Madrid, inviting me to come to Spain to train during the holidays,” Mbappé recalls. “It was a shock because they actually told my father, ‘Zidane wants to meet your son.’ In the comic book “Je m’appelle Kylian”, Mbappé mentions this meeting and his dream of one day playing in the famous white shirt of Real Madrid.
After this meeting, Kylian Mbappé’s relationship with the French football legend stalled until rumors of a high-profile transfer emerged years later.
Mbappé symbolizes excellence
The striker’s performances for the French national team and PSG made interest from Madrid stronger. Even though he is young, Kylian Mbappé is the player with the most goals of all time for PSG with 219 goals! An unbelievable number for a 24-year-old football player! At PSG, Kylian Mbappé won 5 Ligue 1 championships as well as countless other domestic titles in 6 years with this club. However, the Champions League trophy is still out of reach for No. 7 PSG, a tournament that Los Blancos have won many times in recent years.
Kylian Mbappé’s multiracial family
More importantly, for French fans, his dynamic and outstanding playing style helped the national team participate in the 2018 World Cup despite being only 19 years old. Therefore, for all that Mbappé has contributed to French football, any potential move the 24-year-old makes for a move to Madrid will impact both teams externally. pitch.
Rumors and discussions even spread to the Élysée Palace and the French President, Emmanuel Macron. Kylian Mbappé seems to be heading to Spain and there seems to be an obstacle as French President Macron has urged the star of French football to stay in France. “I never imagined I would talk to the President about the future career, so it was something crazy, really crazy,” Kylian Mbappé said in an interview with The New York Times. “He told me: I want you to stay. I don’t want you to leave now. You are very important to the country.”
French President Emmanuel Macron encouraged Kylian Mbappé after the Argentina – France final
When asked if Macron’s persuasion had any effect on him, the PSG star said: “Of course. When the president says it to you, it counts.”
“I think he was important for two or three main reasons,” historian and author of “The Making of Les Bleus” Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff explained to CNN Sport. Certainly, his on-field ability is unique and speaks for itself, and it’s important. But it is far from Mbappé being iconic.” “Mbappé represents the ideals and courage of the French Fifth Republic and how they want to see themselves succeed and excel globally.
So I think he embodies the myths of the Republic, even though we know the reality can be very different.” Krasnoff explains. Krasnoff believes that this superstar striker is France’s most ideal sports role model, a product of French sports and a role model for the public.
Off the field, an enthusiastic striker, Mbappe is considered a person with personality. Thanks to his family’s humanistic upbringing, Mbappe is not too concerned about money nor is he “swayed” by fame.
Kylian Mbappé will stay at PSG for another year
Kylian Mbappé has used his star influence and platform brilliantly. The striker donated his World Cup prize money – believed to be up to $500,000 – to Premiers de Cordée, a charity that provides sporting opportunities to disabled or hospitalized children. Stade de France.
Mbappe also boycotted advertising campaigns of sponsors of the French football federation that he did not approve of, including fast food chain KFC, carbonated soft drinks Coca-Cola and gambling company BetClic.
“Mbappé broke the mold of a football player,” Krasnoff added. Therefore, the cultural importance of the French symbol cannot be underestimated.
A beacon of hope for Greater Paris
Mbappé is considered a beacon of hope for people from Greater Paris – a place famous for its large suburbs and diverse ethnicities. And Bondy, a Paris suburb just over 10 kilometers from Stade France in Paris, where the French national team plays its home matches, is also where Mbappé grew up. Kylian Mbappe grew up in a house across from a sports field in Bondy. , a poor suburb of Paris.
“Mbappé is a pure Bondy product. Mbappé comes from a mixed-race family, his father is from Cameroon, his mother is from Algeria. This is the image of Bondy and also the image of the French team.” Nabil Larbi, a Bondy city councilor who is also Mbappé’s neighbor, told CNN in 2018.
Historian Krasnoff also added that seeing Mbappé shine is extremely important for the next generation, and he mentioned tennis player Billie Jean King’s famous adage: “ You have to see it to be successful.”
Participating and starring in France’s victory at the 2018 World Cup, along with an incredible hat-trick in the 2022 World Cup final, has and will further enhance the status of the French football prodigy even more. .
However, PSG fans will certainly be worried when it comes to their star’s 2022 summer plans. Mbappé has so far refused to sign a new contract with PSG beyond this 2022/2023 season and was left out of the Japan tour and stuck training with PSG’s “undesirables” after the team This ball announced that this superstar was sold.
A late reconciliation with PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi brought Mbappé back into the squad at the end of August and despite the noise about a possible move to Madrid, the transfer window quietly closed without the superstar Any young person leaves the magnificent capital of Paris.
Staying in the French capital, at least for another year, allows Mbappé to continue to be a shining light for the next generation in France.
