There is no shortage of debates around Kylian Mbappé. In recent weeks, there has been a lot of talk about his chances of winning the Ballon d’Or despite a season without trophies. Can being top scorer in the World Cup, La Liga and the Champions League be enough to win the most prestigious individual distinction?
The person concerned is convinced of this and to this end, he does not understand the criticism he is subjected to because of his lack of taste for defensive tasks. “If my goals are sometimes obscured by debates around my defensive runs or the kilometers covered? I think it’s not normal, but it’s the life of someone who has been around excellence for years. I am no longer in the novelty”, he thus confided during an interview given to France Football.
“The goal of football is to score goals”
“Everyone has known for years what I can do, he continued. And I think that’s where we enter the human framework. It’s human to always look at what someone isn’t doing. » According to him, after a decade at the top, chain-scoring has become a norm that no longer surprises anyone, pushing the public, the “millions of coaches”to look for the little beast elsewhere, which he puts up with without difficulty.
Kylian Mbappé, on the other hand, categorically rejects the idea that a serial scorer can penalize his own team. “It’s a speech that makes less sense. Because if I don’t score, people will ask me why I don’t score, he whispered. I think the goal of football is to score goals, to score one more than the opponent. A player who scores goals will never be a problem in a team, because I have never seen a team win titles by scoring zero goals. »
