In a tweet published on Sunday, the player of PSG and the French team contradicted the president of the French Football Federation after declarations in an interview with the “Journal du Dimanche”.
by (with AFP)
The relationship between Kylian Mbappé and Noël Le Graët is not about to improve. Sunday, June 19, the Paris-Saint-Germain striker who contradicts the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) after his statements in a Interview with the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) .
In this interview, Noël Le Graët evokes the lack of support felt by Kylian Mbappé after elimination at Euro 2021, where the Parisian had missed the decisive goal during the elimination in the round of finals against the Switzerland (3-3, 5 T.A.B. at 4): “He found that the Federation had not defended it after its failed penalty and criticism on the networks. We had five minutes in my office.” I do not ‘ did not want to say that, on the contrary, you have always been nice “, explained the manager, adding in particular that the player no longer wanted to play in the French team – which he obviously did not think”.
In a tweet published Sunday afternoon, Kylian Mbappé gave his version of the facts, which differs from that of the president of the FFF: “Yes, finally, I especially explained to him that it was compared to racism, And not in the penalty. But considered him that there had been no racism … “
Yes, finally, I especially explained to him that it was in relation to racism and not the penalty.
But considered him… https://t.co/Ackava2g8b8b
Questioned on this tweet by RMC Sunday afternoon, the president of the FFF assured: “I agree with him. I understood everything and there is no problem with Kylian. I always had a deep attachment to his personality. “
In addition, the interview with Mbappé that Noël Le Graët evokes in the JDD should be confidential according to the words of the top scorer in Ligue 1, who had surprised the choice of Breton in October to make it public in West- France, at the end of August 2021. “It was something confidential, and when it was out, no, I did not understand, confided Mbappé in the team. I don’t hold it Rigor. I think he had his reasons. But I did not complain about a penalty. What I complained to him was to have been insulted and treated as a “monkey” for a penalty. It’s not the same thing. “
Cold relationships from the Euro
In September 2021, Noël Le Graët had already been the subject of criticism after having declared that racism in football “does not exist or little”.
A few months before, in July, the Paris prosecutor’s office had announced to investigate racist messages towards certain players of the French team after the Euro. The president of the executive council of the territorial collectivity of Martinique, Serge Letchimy, had notably wrote, on June 30, 2021, to the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, to condemn “insulting remarks” towards Mbappé.
Among them, a very relayed message which treated the PSG striker of “dirty negro” who “deserves to take a hundred lashes”.
Since the Euro, relations between Christmas Le Graët and Kylian Mbappé are particularly cold. As proof, the pass of arms between the two men about image rights in the jersey of the French team.
During a selection rally in March, the Bondy native refused to participate in marketing operations with the Blues partners. During the press conference to announce its extension with PSG for the next three seasons, on May 23, Kylian Mbappé took the opportunity to slide, with a smile, a small spade towards the former president of En Avant Guingamp. “The president also talked about it too, right? I heard. Yeah, I heard [laughs]! But there is no problem […] There was this little misunderstanding in selection, but we go Set it with intelligence. “
This is, in any case, new proof that the cloth burns between the two parties five months from the 2022 World Cup organized in Qatar (from November 21 to December 18).