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He hoped to change the outcome of the 2022 World Cup final against Argentina
Kylian Mbappe, the striker of the French national team, expressed a big surprise regarding his participation in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, which he won with the Roosters.
The French team met its Belgian counterpart in the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup and achieved a hard-fought victory with a clean goal scored by defender Samuel Umtiti.
Kilian said that it is possible to miss the semi-final match, noting that the day before the match, he could not get out of bed due to back pain.
In his statements to “Le Parisien” newspaper, he explained that the French team’s technical staff made great efforts to hide the news from the press, and that it was the team’s orthopedist, Jean-Yves Vandevall, who finally allowed him to participate.
“Jean-Yves Vandevall saved me in 2018, before the semi-final match. The night before the game, I woke up with no pain, but I couldn’t get out of bed. I couldn’t eat breakfast, I couldn’t feel my back and I couldn’t move at all.
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He continued. “I called the coach to tell him I couldn’t move. He came with the French national team orthopedist who told me I had a series of stiff vertebrae. How is that possible? I was just sleeping. I had to try to hide it, especially from the press. So I tried to stay as upright as possible, even though I couldn’t walk properly.”
The “Real” star added: “I didn’t train the day before the match, and the next day, even though I was still in pain, I was able to play the semi-final and then the final match.”
Moments Kylian Mbappe wanted to change
As he spoke Kylian Mbappé On the moments he wished he could relive in his career to change the outcome, and while he logically mentioned the 2022 World Cup final against Argentina and the 2020 Champions League final against Bayern Munich, he has yet to explain his reluctance to change the Euro 2021 defeat to Switzerland.
“Moments I would change. Oh, there are so many! Especially defeats, because if you survive them, you can change the course of fate. For example, I would change the match against Argentina in 2022, the final against Bayern Munich against Paris and the semi-final against Dortmund. From the 16th match”.
He continued. “We still had a lot to do. And yet, given the atmosphere, I don’t think we would have won. However, this was probably the most talented team we’ve had in a long time, even before that. But I think that was the worst moment I’ve had with France in terms of the atmosphere. It affected the team.”
Mbappe concluded. “We talk about it a lot with ourselves. It may not have been clear, but it was the moment when the French team was less united than when I joined it.”
