Present in Dubai on Monday December 27 as part of the Globe Soccer Awards, where he was named best player of the year, Kylian Mbappé was invited to speak on the project of a World Cup every two years. The idea was launched last September, by Arsène Wenger, director of world football development at FIFA. If he began his remarks by estimating “to be nobody to say if it was something good or not”, the 2018 world champion gave his opinion … negative.
“All the players, everyone is talking about this [la Coupe du monde] as the best competition in the world, explained Mbappé, present alongside the Pole Robert Lewandowski. If you have this every two years, it can start to become a normal part of playing a World Cup. I mean it’s not normal, it’s something extraordinary. “
The World Cup is the World Cup, it’s something special because it’s there every four years.
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Like his coach, Didier Deschamps, the PSG player fears that organizing this competition every two years will trivialize him. He also spoke about the consequences this could have on the health of the players.
“We already play sixty games in the year. There is the Euro, there is the World Cup, there is now the League of Nations. There are so many competitions. We have to rest, we have to relax If people want to see matches on TV, of course we will play, but if they want to see quality matches, emotion, which is also the beauty of football, we must respect the health of the players. ” argued Kylian Mbappé.
Since the announcement of this project, FIFA has faced many reactions from players and coaches opposed to this idea. Mbappé is added to an already long list, including, among others, Deschamps therefore, Thierry Henry, the Professional Football League (LFP) or all the Premier League clubs.