It doesn’t happen to you, it kills you. His marker Dani Carvajal, El Pitbull, looked like a chihuahua. Ancelotti felt sorry for him and took him out at 72′; he saw double without trying a drink. Then, at 94′, Militão and Lucas Vázquez saw something go by at great speed, they wanted to take the patent from him and they couldn’t see his number. He made them a two-in-one combo, he passed them on the surface of a napkin. And when Courtois wanted to close his legs, the ball had already made him an oléeeee…
It was Paris Saint Germain’s colossal goal against Real Madrid that turned a minimal points win into a resounding knockout. A goal that made the Eiffel Tower tremble due to the shock wave of the howling of thousands and thousands.
In seven seconds, the hurricane Mbappé blew and destroyed Real Madrid causing serious damage. He broke everything. They are 73 kilos of fiber and muscle, 23 years of vitality and enthusiasm, a meter 78 of speed and power. It is Kylian Mbappé, a force of nature gifted with technique and with the mind of a knockout. It’s Tyson, but playing ball.
It was a Ballon d’Or performance. And the framework was not a World Cup or a European Championship, not even a Champions League final, just the round of 16. However, his performance was so dazzling and his goal, which shocked Planet Soccer, shook it. And it is not new Mbappé. He debuted in December 2015, six years and coins in the First Division. But against Madrid he gave the warning that he had already reached the top: we are facing the phenomenon that will dominate the decade, the one that takes the testimony of Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the best in football today, with land in between on the second .
Zidane and Platini were comfortably seated at the main table of French football, with Tuesday they had to get up and add a chair for Kylian. Now there are three at the same level in the homeland of La Marseillaise. Those two were something else: Zidane a Rolls Royce, the class, the elegance, the fine talent in the organization of the game; Platini a BMW, intelligent, fast, point guard and scorer. Mbappé is an ultralight tractor, with a certain beauty of movement and a lot of goals. His game has the charm of the devastating. Because his beauty has many faces.
It overflows through any of the points, preferably the left, and enters diagonally. He has the advantage (like young Messi) of running with the ball faster than opponents without it.
Zidane scored 150 goals in his seventeen-year career, Platini 354 in fourteen seasons, Mbappé has 212, a remarkable harvest because he is barely 23 years old and because he is not in the area, he arrives. He overflows from any of the points, preferably the left, and enters diagonally. He has the advantage (like young Messi) of running with the ball faster than opponents without it. If he played until he was 33 he could triple his stat. He is a rock: in six and a half years he has barely missed 14 games due to minor, muscular injuries.
It’s funny, he’s not an idol yet, he doesn’t even have obvious charisma, but every time he touches the ball he discharges a hundred thousand volts on the field and the stands. And in front of the television, if you feel like going to the bathroom and Mbappé grabs you, you don’t go. Kylian draws a line and differentiates himself from Lewandowski-type area scorers. The Pole is an efficient scorer, it seems that the jacket and tie are missing. In addition, Lewa needs a team that works for him to finish. Mind you, he does it irreproachably, he’s a precise and cunning finisher. Kylian also shoots a lot, despite the fact that his territory is outside the 18. And he has the bonus of being spectacular. With an addition: he does not depend so much on the others, any ball into space can take advantage of it extraordinarily because he puts the second and leaves. And he knows how to win against two, against three, because of his physical and mental strength. In this he resembles the best Luis Suárez.
In the 2016-2017 season, at just 18 years old, he won a league with Monaco and scored 26 goals. Immense merit. He then added another three leagues and three Coupe de France with PSG. At 19 he was crowned world champion with France being a starter and figure, and in October he added the League of Nations. He already has to buy another showcase. No one can resort to the stupidity that he wins “because the French is a second league.” He does well everywhere.
To replace (and cover) Neymar’s flight, FC Barcelona had to make a great signing. There were two photos on the table: one of Mbappé and another of Dembelé. For the first he had the okay of Monaco and Kylian’s father to take him for 100 million euros, but between his sports director, Pep Segura, and technical secretary Robert Fernández, they chose Dembelé for 105, which later ended up costing 140. Very Barcelonan. Obviously, neither Segura nor Fernández are there anymore. Madrid has been following him for three years and persecuting him, exerting fierce media pressure. That he is already there, that they present him together with the reopening of the Bernabéu, that they will assign him number 7, that he is choosing a home in Madrid…
But Mbappé is now a matter of states, of two, France and Qatar. Kylian is Parisian, he plays in Paris, he is the supercrack of the next ten years, are they going to hand him over to Florentino Pérez…? They are offering him up to the Arc de Triomphe, to score goals there if he likes. Bixente Lizarazu, that strong French winger from Bayern Munich, summed up the general thought in the country: “It would be criminal to let such a player go at twenty-three years old, a serious managerial error by PSG.” Emmanuel Macron expressed himself in the same sense, since, he said, he is the image of the national tournament abroad. There are lobbying (read Nicolás Sarkozy) from the highest level so that he does not emigrate.
Last Tuesday there was a summit meeting in Paris between Mbappé’s family – his mother Fayza is the one who manages his career – and envoys from the royal house of Qatar and Qatar Investment, the mega-millionaire investment fund that owns PSG. The emirate will host the World Cup at the end of the year and they want Mbappé to be champion as a Paris Saint Germain player. They are offering him a fabled contract (there is talk of one million euros per week just for salary, plus 25 million as a renewal bonus and another 50 million euros more in prizes and objectives). The most coveted star in the world is released on June 30, free at age 23…! Kylian, a tomb, doesn’t open his mouth or hint at what colors he’ll wear from July 1st onwards.
He speaks on the court. There is Tyson, he kills you, but playing football.
LAST TANGO
JORGE BARRAZA
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