A big change for Kylian Mbappé! While taking advantage of his holidays with Achraf Hakimi in Porto Rico, two weeks after the elimination of Real Madrid at the Club World Cup against PSG (4-0)-and ten days before the resumption of training, the captain of the French team changes number at the Merengues. The prodigy from Bondy endorsed on the 9th on his arrival last year.
The Spanish press announces that the Liga Pichichi and European gold shoe (thanks to its 31 league goals) recovered the number 10 left by Luka Modric (at the end of the contract and party to AC Milan). The team Specifies that it was the Madrid leaders who made this choice. A little jackpot. The 2018 world champion thus recovers his number from the French team and Real will take the opportunity to sell new jerseys with the number 10 of Mbappé.
The “Kyks” succeeds Lassana Diarra, who was playing at Real with the 10 on the back from 2009 to 2011! Kaka had kept number 8 in 2009 and Mesut Özil started with the 23rd at the Merengues before becoming the number 10 of Real. Florentino Pérez then offered the diez In James Rodriguez, from 2014 to 2017, before Modric recovered it for eight seasons.
Mbappé after Lassana Diarra and Kopa
Zinedine Zidane had opted for number 5 when he arrived in the Spanish capital in 2001 because Luis Figo brought on 10 from 2000 to 2005, succeeding Clarence Seedorf. After the Portuguese Ballon d'Or, Robinho and Wesley Sneijder did not shine great with the 10 back.
Two French players also brought the number 10 to Real Madrid: the very first French Ballon d'Or Raymond Kopa (1958) and Jean Luciano, an environment spent at Real Madrid for a year. At the time, the numbers were awarded to different players at each meeting according to the starting eleven.
