As the Parisian titi celebrates his 18th birthday this Friday, focus on a special relationship with the French football superstar.
It’s the story of two funny people programmed to be familiar with the skies. Two generational talents who come together for what they represent, as well as for what they do. How they stand out for what they are. Twinkling stars on the pitch, antitheses off it, Kylian Mbappé and Warren Zaire-Emery are the present and future of French football. Symbols of the exceptional breeding ground of Ile-de-France, the two phenomena share many similarities, starting with their fantastic precocity.
Like Kylian Mbappé before him, Warren Zaire-Emery is starting to collect records in this specific register. The kid from Montreuil thus became the youngest player in the history of the France team to be called up to the A, after being integrated into the France group by Didier Deschamps for last November’s rally.
Mbappé and Zaire-Emery: benevolence and complicity between two phenomena
In the highest levels of PSG, Mbappé and Zaire-Emery were the subject of two crucial files for the future of the club. Both had been made absolute priorities for a contract extension, before the striker announced his desire to leave for free at the end of the season. For Zaire-Emery, it smells good. In this special context where trajectories cross and separate, it is interesting to observe their relationship.
Since his sensational entry into the world football landscape in 2017, Kylian Mbappé has always been watched by big names. From Falcao to Neymar, for a time, via Benzema or Griezmann, the Bondy prodigy has smelled the scent of the very high level in the footsteps of his elders. A role that he now seems ready to take on. Because it’s a safe bet that the captain of the France team will see himself again while observing the express emergence of Warren Zaire-Emery.
Transmission between cracks
The relative discretion of the latter, however, contrasts with the very divisive personality of Mbappé, never stingy with punchlines to scream his limitless ambition. Two opposing temperaments which do not distance the two players, quite the contrary. The striker and the midfielder maintain a relationship of kindness and complicity.
Kylian Mbappé was one of the first to congratulate “WZE” after his first selection, both in person and on social networks. “ No need to wait, it’s now. Congratulations“, wrote the 2018 world champion, before exploding with joy alongside him, at the Poissy Campus, with other French-speaking players like Presnel Kimpembe and Achraf Hakimi. A great moment in the dazzling start of the career of this young man who is celebrating his 18th birthday. The adage is now famous: “ You don’t talk to me about age“. It is not Kylian Mbappé who will say the opposite: the value of a well-born soul does not wait for the number of years.
