Didier Deschamps sent a message to the “grumps” who criticize the fact that Kylian Mbappé now skips the match eve press conferences.
This was one of the big questions surrounding Kylian Mbappé’s captaincy in the France team. Was he going to be present at every match eve press conference, like Hugo Lloris did? While the Tottenham goalkeeper knew how to avoid the angry subject, the Bondynois, superstar of French football, sometimes knows how to throw small bombs.
Present in front of the media in March and June, Mbappé has now avoided questions since this summer. The unofficial version is that he does not want the soap opera of his situation with Paris Saint-Germain to encroach on the news of the Blues. As a result, it was Antoine Griezmann who stuck to it in September. And it was Aurélien Tchouaméni who appeared alongside Deschamps this Thursday in Amsterdam, before Netherlands-France. “I don’t know if it was planned, I found out about it earlier, the coach warned me, I accepted, I couldn’t say no”the Real Madrid midfielder had fun, relays RMC.
Raised on the subject, Didier Deschamps gave his explanation. “ Kylian needs peace and quiet. He’s there. Tomorrow he will be part of the team which has a very specific objective. You talk about him a lot, he’s big enough to protect himself. We talk about him a lot. But he is part of a collective. He’s not here wanting to take everything, confided the coach, before slipping in a small tackle. I hope you enjoyed Tchouaméni’s presence. Even if there will be grumpy people who will say that before it was only the captain who came… That is the interest of the selection above all. »
