Fun, inspiring and likeable, France and PSG’s brightest star brings much-needed humanity in the era of the superclubs
There was a moment at the Stade de France on Wednesday when the world just seemed to stop and watch – and gawp and purr and jab its elbow into the ribs of the gawping, purring person next to it. The score was 0-0 in the Coupe de France final. Monaco forced a corner on the right. The ball fell to Kylian Mbappé inside his own penalty area. At which point the gravity of the day started to shift.
Mbappé caught the ball on his toe and started to run – not into some neutral open zone, but swerving across the centre through a previously invisible faultline in the Monaco midfield. He glided right then left, burning three red shirts out of his arc. Crossing the centre circle Mbappé slowed, pulling a fourth player into his path, then switched feet and surged away, a shimmy so theatrical it almost felt like a piece of satire.
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