Athletes once again have the coast with the youngest. This attests to the results of the survey launched by Mickey's newspaper with a representative sample of 400 children, aged 7 to 14. According to this survey, Léon Marchand is indeed the favorite personality of the young audience, the Toulouse swimmer, hero of the Paris Games with four gold medals, ahead of Teddy Riner, also at the party during the Olympic Games.
And footballers are not to be outdone. If Artus and Soprano, who was the favorite personality of the 7-14 year olds over the past three years, appear in the third and fourth places, Antoine Griezmann completes the top 5. And two other football stars are present in the Top 10: Olivier Giroud and Zinedine Zidane, respectively seventh and eighth in the ranking.
A player nevertheless shines by his absence in this top 10: Kylian Mbappé, only 11e. A result which confirms the relative disenchantment from which the former Parisian suffers after a complicated 2024 year, marked by his heated divorce with PSG, a euro in disappointing Germany, of the difficult beginnings with Real and its controversial absences in the French team.
Only 36th among the largest
Favorite personality of the youngest in 2019, in the wake of the World Cup in Russia, Kylian Mbappé was still fourth last year after having chained two third places in 2022 and 2023. He had nevertheless been preceded by Olivier Giroud and Hugo Lloris only a few months after the lost final in Qatar against Argentina or Antoine Griezmann, second year last.
This drop in popularity had also verified among the largest in the JDD survey. While Teddy Riner invited himself to the podium and Léon Marchand in the top 5, Kylian Mbappé had continued his descent into hell. Fourth in 2022, 22e In 2023, there were indeed only 36e
This year.
