The coach of the France team would not have hesitated to make a strong choice for his star player…
“I am not married to Kylian. It’s been going very well since his appointment as captain. It is a responsibility for him. It is not there to take up all the space. He knows what I expect of him. I talk a lot with him and it’s not just about him. It’s not a burden for him. He has this capacity and this legitimacy. But he is not the only one. There is Antoine (Griezmann) who is vice-captain.. At the start of the week, Didier Deschamps again recalled that his relationship with Kylian Mbappé was excellent.
The coach and the new captain of the Blues cultivate a bond of trust which was created as soon as the prodigy arrived in selection, in 2017. Kylian Mbappé has continued to grow since then, to the point of recovering the captain’s armband after the international retirement of Hugo Lloris.
Until then, Mbappé has lent himself brilliantly to the exercise of the press conference, at each rally since last spring. This one could be an exception. Given the context surrounding the player after the summer soap opera, Didier Deschamps made the decision, after discussion with the star, not to send him to a press conference on the eve of the Blues match against Ireland. . A task which therefore naturally fell to vice-captain Antoine Griezmann.
