Kylian Mbappé guest on “Special Envoy”: five sequences to remember

Mbappé evening in “Special Envoy” on January 18, 2024! After a report dedicated to his association Inspired by Kylian Mbappé, the magazine broadcast a long interview with the PSG star, recorded on December 18. Here are some excerpts.

“Helping youth and leaving a legacy”

At the time of this interview, he had not even celebrated his 25th birthday yet… (this was done on December 20), but he is already thinking about leaving a legacy… To make his life “something other than football” And “because football has an end”, to transmit values ​​too, Kylian Mbappé decided to help young people. He created an association which very concretely supports 98 young people in realizing their professional dream. And no one wants to become a footballer! “The goal is to give them skills (…), as much baggage as possible to enter working life as best as possible,” explains the one who “always loved children” because'”they are sincere, frank, without filter”… and then “this is the future of our world.”

The World Cup in 2018: “I was too young”

Winning the 2018 World Cup in Russia of course represented “a click in [s]for life”, and yet… “It may be incomprehensible, but it didn’t do much for me, I was too young, so unconscious…”, confides the PSG striker. “In 2022, there was a lot more emotion,” he remembers. But despite the legendary hat-trick he scored, the Cup this time passed under the noses of the Blues… “We have to live with that,” he concludes, philosophically. Today, his dream is to “participate in the Olympics with France”…

“I lost spontaneity”

He doesn’t know “even more” when he went to buy a baguette for the last time… When he was little, it was “a chore”. “And I would pay a lot now to do this kind of thing that is unlike anything to most people “, he confides. What if he could spend 48 hours incognito? It would be “outside, that’s for sure, already!” He who regrets having “lost spontaneity” would take advantage of it “do everything: things without thinking, going to eat quietly in a brasserie, going out with friends, partying quietly, without anyone coming to see me. The next morning, a good brunch in the sun on a terrace, that’s it, admiring the things. Simple things in life.”

“Keep your feet on the ground”

“I have a very special relationship with my motherconfides Kylian Mbappé. With both my parents, but with my mother, it’s very close. (…) I tell her everything, she knows everything.” A mother who knows “chamber” (like his whole family) but also help him to “keep your feet on the ground”, notably through the Inspired by Kylian Mbappé foundation, which she manages with her son. And the player tells this anecdote: after his four-day third-year training course at Real Madrid, his mother told him “taken to his classrooms to clean”. And he is grateful to her : “I had touched the stars, I had to come back to earth…”

“I am a citizen of the world and I am free to say what I think is right”

The footballer has spoken out several times on social networks on social issues such as racism (which he himself suffered) or police violence, for example during the death of Nahel. Why these positions? asked Elise Lucet. Response from Kylian Mbappé: “Because I am a citizen of the world. (…) I think it is important to show people that we are not on another planet. (…) I I am free to do and say what seems right to me, like any other human being.” Positions of which he does not regret any, despite the criticism: “It’s a slippery slope, but I’m holding on”…