France coach, Didier Deschamps has come out to lavish praise on his captain, Kylian Mbappe. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, the French forward is a fantastic leader for the French national team, and he proved just that with how he starred against Luxembourg.
Deschamps added that Mbappe knows why he was made captain for his country, and he is aware that France will need him at his best for the Euro 2024 tournament.
His words, “Kylian is the captain and a fantastic leader. I’m not going to go back over what happened, the exchanges we had and what he did. He knows why he’s here and we’re going to need him at his best. The fact that he played 90 minutes did him good, as did the work he put in. With what he represents, like Antoine [Griezmann] who is vice-captain, the others will follow.”
On his troubled period at PSG, “His head and body weren’t used to playing so little. He lacked a bit of juice. But he got it in his head that he was going to do everything to make up for his PSG frustration. It was a good example during the week.”
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Kylian Mbappe Lottin (born 20 December 1998) is a French professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and captains the France national team. Regarded as one of the best players in the world, he is renowned for his dribbling abilities, exceptional speed, and finishing.
Kylian Mbappé Lottin was born on 20 December 1998 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris and was raised in Bondy, Seine-Saint-Denis, in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. His father, Wilfrid , is originally from Cameroon, and, as well as being his agent, is a football coach. His mother, Fayza Lamari, is of Algerian Kabyle origin and is a former handball player.
He has a younger brother, Ethan, who plays in the Paris Saint-Germain Academy. Their older adoptive brother, Jirès Kembo Ekoko, is a former professional footballer.
On 22 February 2018, Mbappé was joined by former African strikers George Weah and Didier Drogba in a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the Élysée Palace in Paris, which focused on a sports development project in Africa. Mbappé stated that the development of African sport is important to him due to his parents’ African origins.
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