This is not a first for Emmanuel Macron. This Thursday, the head of state once again praised footballer Kylian Mbappé, in the newspaper The team which publishes, this Thursday, its ranking of “30 who make French football”. The striker of the Blues and Paris Saint-Germain occupies the head of the podium, just ahead of Karim Benzema and Lionel Messi.
In an ode to the world champion, the head of state wishes the player to constitute himself “the most beautiful record in European football” but also “to continue to enchant the public with his jubilant gestures, his brilliant passes and his magical goals”.
Emmanuel Macron also salutes the 23-year-old citizen who, “far from the excesses that sometimes accompany celebrity, embodies calm, quiet ambition, gaze towards the stars, but the head on the shoulders”. “So Kylian Mbappé never forgets to come back to Seine-Saint-Denis “, the poorest department in France north-east of Paris, “and in particular at Bondy, where it all began for him” and where he created a social association.
“He chose the risk of commitment. For vaccination, against violence, in communion with the emotions of the country: Kylian Mbappé has a rare awareness of his role, the weight of his words, the force of his actions” , adds the French president. In concluding that he has “demonstrated the qualities of the greatest: lucidity, courage, resistance. I am sure of one thing: he will continue to amaze us”.