Kylian Mbappé quickly impressed everyone in Monaco. Some training sessions with the professional group were enough for him to win in the professional group when he was only 16 years old. Small beginnings to which Andrea Raggi returned in the columns of the Gazzetta dello Sport.
“He came from the youth team and I didn't know who he was. Some accelerations during the first training session were enough to understand that it was a phenomenon, said the former central defender. At first he was a bit shy, then he became monstrous. We were careful not to injure him during training matches. »»
Between Kylian Mbappé and Andrea Raggi, the insults rushed
Andrea Raggi has sometimes been much less careful with his teammate, especially as PSG approaches, while tension was increasingly lively between Bondynois and its leaders. “He's a good boy, but that summer, he decided to go to PSG. In training, he carried out some dangerous tackles, the coach Jardim expelled him but he remained ”, he said, adding: “I intervened as vice-captain to allow others to work. We just raised the voice a little. »»
The tone was sufficiently mounted, with insults fused on both sides, so that Kylian Mbappé and Andrea Raggi are deprived of the trip to Metz. “This is something that happens in any locker room. It happens all the time. He spoke to me, I told him again and it was over. But as it was Kylian, at that time precisely, it made a bomb. It will happen to me again to take the lead with a teammate. And I think it will happen to him too ”, had commented on the striker a few weeks later.
