Kylian Mbappé is undoubtedly happy with the change of year. 2024 will indeed have been complicated for the French world champion. Consequence of his stormy divorce with PSG or his complicated debut with Real Madrid. The year will also have been difficult with the France team and not only because of a Euro polluted by a broken nose in the first match against Austria.
Beyond this (big) missed meeting, Kylian Mbappé was also at the heart of the controversy in the fall. The fault lies in his absence for the two matches against Israel and Belgium in October. Because just two days after the announcement of his withdrawal due to a thigh injury, the Bondynois was lined up in La Liga by Carlo Ancelotti. What followed was his escapade in Stockholm while the Blues faced Israel in Budapest, a rape complaint ultimately dismissed and his non-selection for the two matches against Israel and Italy in November.
New faces highlighted
“ I discussed with him and I made this decision for this gathering because I think it’s better that way, had confided the French coach.
I’m not going to argue. » Barring an injury, his return to the France team is now expected for the double confrontation against Croatia next March for the quarter-finals of the Nations League.
After a first match in Split on March 20, Kylian Mbappé will meet the French public three days later at the Stade de France for the return match. The Dyonisian venue should also be sold out since more than two months before the meeting, only 5,000 tickets are still on sale.
The French Football Federation obviously did not fail to promote the event, particularly in the press, and to do this, the 3F did not hesitate to deprive itself of Kylian Mbappé on its visuals. If not less
of seven French players were highlighted, the captain of the Blues conspicuous by his absence, the marketing department of the FFF having preferred Mike Maignan and Ibrahima Konaté, who are gaining more and more weight in the French team as well as Lucas Digne , William Saliba, Bradley Barcola, Manu Koné and Adrien Rabiot.
