France captain Kylian Mbappe has come out to refute rumours of a potential dressing room war brewing within the French national team. He recently assured that the current crop of French players share a great bond, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, he and his teammates are all on the same page, and the atmosphere in camp is a united one because the players understand themselves perfectly.
Mbappe, however, added that despite being friends off the pitch, they all have to build a good reputation for France on the field of play.
His words, “I’ve never experienced an atmosphere like this because we’re all roughly the same age. Before, there were always older players, very young players, and those in between. Now, young players are arriving, but we’re all roughly the same age. We understand each other much more easily.
We all know each other. It’s good to get along off the pitch, it’s great, but it’s on the pitch that we have to prove ourselves and build our reputation. Ousmane? He’s taken on an exceptional dimension, we have to know how to make room for him.”
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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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