Emmanuel Macron became in April of this year the first re-elected president in France in the last 20 years (although with numbers that set off alarm bells), less than two months later he won a victory that almost tasted of defeat in the first round . of the French legislature, but he continues to be especially attentive to everything related to football. Regarding Kylian Mbappé, who was at Real Madrid but stayed at PSG, there were several conversations between the French leader and the striker; now, the focus became Zidane.
Skype calls with Florentino, house in La Moraleja, four contracts made: what made Mbappé stay at PSG (and the role of Qatar and Macron)
“No, I didn’t talk to him. But I have great admiration for him, as a player and as a coach. He won three Champions with Real [como treinador]that we want so much for our clubs. I want him to come back to promote France.” He commented last week in an interview with RMC, in the decisive final stretch for the electoral suffrage of the first round of the legislative elections that took place this Sunday.
Some Ligue 1 clubs are beginning to find it a bit amused by the way in which the French president has become almost an ally of Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and company in an attempt to bolster PSG for European glory at last. but one of the obstacles in this new desire of Macron after Mbappé can come from the selection itself and even before the World Cup in Qatar, between November and December.
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After allowing a surprising comeback at the Stade de France against Denmark, with Cornelius 2-1 in 88′ (in a game that did not feature Didier Deschamps, who had lost his father a few days before), the blues he had two draws in Split with Croatia and in Vienna with Austria and was banned from further slips until the end of the Nations League group stage. However, and if the situation was not exactly easy, it got worse with another homemade mess, Now with Croatia.
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In what turned out to be the revenge of the final of the last World Cup, in Russia, the Balkans reached the goal after five minutes in a penalty converted by Modric and then kept that 1-0 until the end, with a brace from Benzema and Mbappé. in the initial attack but players like Tchouameni, Pavard, Griezmann or Coman only made their debut in the second half. With this result, not only France, champion of the League of Nations and one of the potential favorites for the revalidation of the victory in the World Cup due to the constellation of stars that it was forming, was left out of the Final Four (Denmark beat Austria 2- 0 ) How are you going to play with the Austrians now? for not relegating to Group B of the competition.
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In addition to the episodes that are already customary in the French team, more recently with the speculations coming from the relationship between Benzema and Mbappé after the young striker’s stay in Paris when the French teammate had even helped him choose a home in Madrid, it also begins to discuss the position of Deschamps, after not only the elimination of the League of Nations but also the defeat in the second round of the last European Championship. And the most mentioned name as successor is known: Zinedine Zidane.
Source: Observadora
