In its edition of this Tuesday, the newspaper L’Equipe wonders about the captaincy in the France team. If Kylian Mbappé recently inherited the armband, could a potential return to Paul Pogba’s Blues upset the hierarchy?
With the international retirements of Hugo Lloris and Raphaël Varane at the end of the 2022 World Cup, Didier Deschamps had to find a new captain. After reflection, the coach of the Blues finally decided to entrust the armband to Kylian Mbappé at the expense of Antoine Griezmann, appointed vice-captain.
It must be said that with the absence of Paul Pogba, who hardly played last season due to several injuries, Kylian Mbappé was a legitimate contender for the armband. But when will it be if the midfielder of Juventus Turin returns to Clairefontaine, he who returned to competition at the start of the season? The newspaper The Team indicates this Tuesday that the subject would not torment the PSG striker, nor the staff of the France team.
Mbappé wanted Pogba to be called up for the World Cup
The sports daily even assures that Kylian Mbappé, who would be perfectly aware of the importance of Paul Pogba in the tricolor locker room, would have viewed with a good eye a summons from the former Mancunian for the World Cup in Qatar, even diminished by his knee injury.
Passing through a press conference, Didier Deschamps rightly mentioned his relationship with his new captain. “It’s going very well with Kylian,” he said. The armband is an additional responsibility for him. It takes up a lot of space but it’s not there to take up all the space. He knows what I expect of him. It’s not a burden for him. Kylian has this legitimacy in relation to the group. »
