Olympics, Golden Ball, Pelé … Mbappé talks about everything, except his future – Euro 2020

The 22-year-old world champion spoke on Tuesday in the TF1 newspaper, after the disclosure of the Blues list for Euro 2020.

Kylian Mbappé at 8 p.m. TF1 ? The news had leaked from Monday evening, before being confirmed in the evening by the first channel. Some have imagined a little hastily that the 22-year-old world champion could make a big announcement about his future, he whose contract runs until 2022 and who will have to decide in the coming weeks between an extension to PSG and a transfer for the next offseason, at Real Madrid or elsewhere. Others have thought of an ambassadorial role, for example for the Covid-19 vaccination. Except that it was not more a question of one subject than the other. Gilles Bouleau did not question the Parisian about the return of Karim Benzema in Blue either. And for good reason, the interview was recorded Monday evening, on the eve of the disclosure of Didier Deschamps’ list for Euro 2020 (June 11-July 11).

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About the Euro, Mbappé has precisely expressed his overwhelming ambition. “The goal is always the same for a nation like ours, a great football nation. It is to try to win this competition, to do honor to all the French people by trying to give the best of ourselves and by playing as a team, as we always used to do ”, assures us. -he. And to add: “The double World Cup-Euro? Who doesn’t dream of it? This is the case for many French people. I’m no exception … Of course, we want to win. We always want to win. It would be an extraordinary achievement to achieve this double. We will prepare well. We used the experience of 2018 to continue to progress and give the best of ourselves. We will try to play our game, as we have always done, and come away with the victory. ” As the Blues did at Euro 2000, two years after the 1998 world title at the Stade de France.

The nice collective movement of PSG for Mbappé’s goal against Dijon on February 27 (0-4)

Mbappé dribbles the question about the Olympic Games

And the Olympic Games (July 23-August 8)? This was the other burning question to ask Mbappé. And that one could be asked. Except that the person concerned did not answer it exactly… “Everyone knows that I have always dreamed of playing the Olympic Games, it is a big dream for me. After that, I don’t decide, ”he slips. It remains to be seen who will decide. Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and the bosses of the Parisian club? Florentino Perez or the president of a foreign formation? “I really hope that I will be able to play the Games at least once in my life,” adds Mbappé, who we imagine salivating in advance at the idea of ​​playing the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

“The Golden Ball is a goal for any player who aspires to be the best, and I am one of them”

Kylian Mbappé

For the rest, the Bondynois is not frightened by a potential XXL transfer, he who had gone from Monaco to Paris for € 180 million bonus included in 2017. “This money is not going in my pocket”, he smiles, hammering moreover, his desire to win collective titles before thinking about individual consecrations. “After that, of course the Golden Ball is a goal for any player who aspires to be the best, and I’m one of them. It’s one of my goals, but it’s too presumptuous to talk about it because football is a team sport, ”he says. A modesty not even shaken by the recurring praise of Pelé: “When the King of football talks about you in this way, it’s nice … I think that should encourage me to work well.”

In this case, Kylian Mbappé is working to better prepare for the final of the Coupe de France, Wednesday (9:15 pm), in Saint-Denis, between “his” PSG and AS Monaco. The surest opportunity to win a title this season with the capital club, knowing that the Rouge et Bleu no longer have their destiny in their hands in the French league (the standings here) before the last day, next Sunday.