The foreign press is focusing this week on the youthful habits of the Bondy prodigy.
Before becoming the icon of a country and an entire generation, Kylian Mbappé remains above all a football enthusiast. Unlike some of his peers, the Bondy prodigy has always satisfied his love for the game by consuming matches on television or on video games, when he was not shining on the fields of his town .
The PSG-AC Milan match this Wednesday evening will have a special flavor for Kylian Mbappé because the Italian team is one of the French star’s favorite clubs. In each major championship, a club was favored by the Parisian striker. In Italy, it was AC Milan. In a file dedicated to this link, Gazzetta dello Sport explains that Mbappé’s love for Milan stems from his proximity to the Riccardi, who lived in Bondy. “Kylian told me that Milan is part of his plans, but at the end of his career. Unfortunately, he was joking, underlined Antonio Riccardi. I don’t want to give illusions to fans, he was joking.”
“His favorite club was…”
Since his emergence, Mbappé’s name has actually been more often linked to Real Madrid, or Liverpool, than to a club undergoing reconstruction like AC Milan. Nicola, father of the Riccardi family, confirms that it is Real that young Kylian always played at PlayStation. “ It was his team at heart”. This did not prevent Kylian Mbappé from wearing the legendary red and black striped tunic. A gift from Italian family. “We gave it to him because we nicknamed him ‘little Robinho’. What Fayza Lamari, mother of the star, confirmed. “He put it on for training and even in bed. But like many others: Real, France, PSG, United for CR7…”.
