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Europe 1 exclusively unveils the personality of the year chosen by the magazine “Paris Match”, a publication that belongs, like the radio station, to the Lagardère group. He is a football star selected and celebrated by the weekly and who will appear on the front page of the next issue, available on newsstands from Wednesday.
Kylian Mbappé, personality of the year 2021. This is the choice made by the editorial staff of the magazine Paris Match for the front page of its next issue. The Paris Saint-Germain striker and world football champion confides at length in an interview conducted by the editorial director, Caroline Mangez. “It’s a more personal interview than what he usually does,” she told Europe 1. “He often talks about football, we often see him in press conferences. on his daily life, on what weighs him down, on his way of life, on what he has in his head, on his long-term projects. “
A portrait signed by his mother, Fayza Mbappé
“We learn a lot of things in this interview,” she adds. “Kylian Mbappé tells us for example that he is not locked in an ivory tower and that he does not go to see princesses in secret. He tells us that it is he who has the last word in his family. when it comes to his career, because his whole family manages it with him. His father was a football coach, his mother has a strong character, but he decides. “
And Kylian Mbappé’s mother, Fayza Mbappé, also signs a portrait of her son in addition to the interview. “She’s a pretty crazy character. She’s a strong woman who comes from Bondy, who accompanied her son’s sidereal career,” says Caroline Mangez. “She explains to us that at school they told her that her son would be good for nothing, but that he finally brought her to the Elysee Palace. She also says that it was not always so. simple as you think. Small, Kylian was a very determined, very difficult child. He is now a high level athlete, with all the constraints that are linked to his notoriety and his athletic life, which is a life of total self-sacrifice. “
Kylian Mbappé, in One of Paris Match, you can find it on newsstands on Wednesday morning.