Rewarded in Dubai for the Globe Soccer Awards, Kylian Mbappé spoke about the World Cup project every two years, which is the subject of debate.
If the World Cup project every two years is supported by FIFA, all the players do not seem to be won over by this idea. Kylian Mbappé spoke on the subject on Monday, while he was present in Dubai to receive his player of the year award at the Globe Soccer Awards. When questioned, he replied in impeccable English, first specifying “not to be anyone to say whether it is a good or a bad idea” but then presenting his arguments against this possible change. According to him, even if the players like to play matches, to put a World Cup every two years would return to make this competition “normal”. “This should not be the case,” he said. “Over a season, we would have to play 60 games a year. The Euro, the World Cup, the League of Nations … we like to play but it’s too much, ”he said.
He recalled the importance of rest for players who can not chain too many games without risk of injury. According to him, if the players were to play too much, the matches would lose their quality. “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 “, he added.
“It’s impossible for the body and the mind to perform at the same level”
The World Cup every two years project arouses an outcry from players and coaches, already facing an overloaded schedule. In France, Didier Deschamps was also reserved vis-à-vis a reform of the World Cup which would give “the feeling of trivializing”. Unlike the coach, the president of the French Football Federation (FFF), Noël Le Graët, declared at the beginning of October that he had “no opposition” in principle on this subject. At the beginning of November, when France met Kazakhstan, at the Parc des Princes, the French supporters had planned to deploy a banner against this project, but it had been banned. “Gianni Infantino (the president of Fifa, present in Paris for the match, editor’s note) did not want to see her at the Parc des Princes”, regretted the French Irresistibles on Twitter, captioned a photo of the banner.
Present alongside Kylian Mbappé on Monday, Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, went in the same direction as him, indicating that “if we want to play a World Cup every two years, the level will drop. It is impossible for the body and the mind to perform at the same level ”.
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