“Moral damage to a human being“. The words of the father of Lamine Yamal, Mounir Nasraoui, to qualify the coronation of Ousmane Dembélé in the Ballon d'Or, made a big noise. For him, his son is “The best player in the world, and by far”. A declaration full of paternal love, but who has greatly displeased a well -known consultant on French radio, who did not hesitate to put the father in his place.
The scathing Rothen lesson with Yamal and Mbappé Fathers
This consultant is Jérôme Rothen. And he didn't chew his words. “You have a genius, very well, but stay for you”, he launched in his show Rothen ignites On RMC.
“We don't want to hear them, the parents of …”. For him, this speaking is the symbol of a drift of modern football, where we give too much media space to those who ” do more harm than good “ to players.
But Rothen did not stop there. In his charge, he took another father in the turmoil, that of Kylian Mbappé. “I heard the father of Mbappé talking about his son's game … He advises him not to run, that a player like that must not defend. Do you realize the vision of football?“, He castigated.
The Mbappé family, unexpected target
However, Kylian Mbappé had asked nothing. And this lost ball is all the more surprising since his son was one of the first to warmly congratulate Ousmane Dembélé for his coronation on social networks. A class gesture that contrasts with the controversy created by the entourage of his Barcelona rival.
This release of Jérôme Rothen highlights an increasingly prevailing phenomenon in football: the sometimes toxic role of families in the career of stars. By wanting to protect their children, some parents end up harming them, creating unnecessary controversies. Lamine Yamal, at 18, probably didn't need that. And Wilfrid Mbappé either.
