It is a secret of Polichinelle: Johan Micoud is not the biggest admirer of Kylian Mbappé. The former French international never misses the opportunity to criticize the captain of the Blues when the subject returns to the table.
Monday evening, Kylian Mbappé was not present at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Parisfor the Golden Ball Ceremony France Football, but despite the boycott assumed by his club, the Real Madrid striker was still talked about.
Johan Micoud, consultant of the L'Equipe chain.
Classified seventh by voters around the world, Mbappé has managed to integrate the top 10 of the Ballon d'Or again. A performance that the Bondy prodigy has achieved every year since his hatching in 2017. Johan Micoud did not endorse this ranking.
Micoud still tackles Mbappé
While all the columnists present on the evening team set were called upon to reveal the result which surprised them the most, Johan Micoud first regretted 11th place of Barcelona Pedri, castigating the importance of the Champions League in the choice of voters.
But the 2000 European champion could not help slipping a new tackle to Kylian Mbappé, indicating that he absolutely did not understand that the attacker ends as high in the ranking. While the journalist Régis Testelin reminded him that Mbappé had finished golden shoe, Micoud recalled that despite the coefficient of goals scored by the Frenchman, it was the Swedish Viktor Gyökeres who had finished top European scorer.