Could Kylian Mbappé have played for Cameroon? This is the question that was debated during After Foot Specially organized in Douala. Two points of view oppose. The first, advanced by the journalist René-Victoria Ekounga, is that before hatching with AS Monaco and becoming a world star, the attacker would have been in contact with the Cameroonian federation thanks to his father, Wilfrid Mbappé, of Cameroonian origin: ” I had an interview with his grandfather. He told me that his grandson often came to Cameroon. Photos circulated, it confirmed that he came here incognito. Kylian proposed to the Federation, it might be true. »»
However, this version is far from unanimous. Junior Binyam, former member of the Cameroonian Federation, categorically refutes this possibility, recalling that Mbappé was selected in the French team from the age of 17. According to him, he never had time to be considered by Cameroon, because his meteoric ascent propelled him directly to the highest level: ” Legend has it that we have cast Mbappé for youth teams in Cameroon, but even in France, they did not have time to see him arrive, he was already in the first team. We have to be rational. It is not possible that he was proposed in Cameroon.The interested party must certainly have the right answer.
