Ridiculed during the Tokyo Olympics, the French team intends to aim for the gold medal in a year at the Paris Olympics. For this, the Blues can count on a Kylian Mbappé motivated like never before when it comes to defending the tricolor. But PSG or its next club will have its say.
In a year, France will host the Olympic Games, a global event that no athlete will want to miss. But the rules of the International Olympic Committee are clear, to play the football tournament, each selection can register only three players over 23 years old. During the Tokyo Olympics, where the tricolor course had pitifully stopped in the first round despite the presence of Téji Savanier, Florian Thauvin and André-Pierre Gignac. So, when hosting the Olympic tournament in our country, the French Football Federation has every intention of not reliving the Japanese nightmare. And the president of the FFF told him on Saturday after his re-election, he wants to see Kylian Mbappé play in the Olympic tournament. ” I believe that with its best players, our team can reach the podium. Kylian Mbappé is a record hunter and having a gold medal will be a way for him to make history “, confided Philippe Diallo. But it’s not all that simple.
Kylian Mbappé was deprived of the Olympics in Tokyo
If there is no doubt that Kylian Mbappé has the desire to compete in the Olympic Games in Paris, which PSG had refused him in Tokyo, it is the club of the tricolor star who will have the last word. The Olympic tournament is indeed not on the FIFA calendar, and the IOC cannot force clubs to release their players. In other words, and to return to the Mbappé case, it is Paris Saint-Germain who will have the last word in 2024 when the FFF will have to reveal the tricolor group for the Olympics. Except that if he has a clause to extend until 2025, the tricolor vice-world champion is currently under contract with PSG until June 30, 2024, i.e. before the Paris Olympics which start on July 5. . Kylian Mbappé can contractually impose to be released for the Olympic Games in the event of an extension in Paris… or departure for another club. A major asset for a player who has no intention of missing this meeting, even if it comes just a few days after the end of Euro 2024.
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According to Le Parisien, Kylian Mbappé will therefore use all his weight to win his case during the upcoming negotiations to extend, or not, his contract with PSG. ” He could press on this during the discussions which will resume in the coming weeks. The management of the capital club, which had refused him participation in the Tokyo Games in 2021, assures us that she did not discuss the Olympic Games with her player (…) If he signs elsewhere, he might wish be part of the terms of the contract. To sum up, if he is not a decision-maker, Mbappé will in any case have enough to negotiate his presence at the Olympics. “, warns the regional daily. PSG, Madrid and Liverpool, to name only these clubs, have been warned.
