Original title: Qatar World Cup 丨 Mbappe, burst into silence
Xinhua News Agency, Doha, December 4
Xinhua News Agency reporters Xiao Shiyao, Wang Haoyu, Zhao Jiantong, Wang Zijiang
4’s Atumama stadium was a stage only for Mbappé. With two goals and one assist, he almost single-handedly led defending champions France to defeat Poland 3:1 and easily progressed to the quarter-finals.
Without any suspense, Mbappe was elected the best player of the game. After arriving in Qatar, the 23-year-old Frenchman scored five goals in three opening matches and became the man of the match in all three games.
If possible, the organizers may not want to award the best player trophy to Mbappé. According to FIFA regulations, the best player on the pitch is obliged to attend the post-match press conference. After the first two elections, Mbappé refused to participate, forcing FIFA to fine him. As one of the brightest stars in world football today, Mbappe has maintained a rare silence.
At the press conference on the 4th, amid the whispers of hundreds of journalists, Mbappé finally arrived. Presumably only in response to the long silence, he said: “I know there have been a lot of questions about why I’m not speaking up. I’m not addressing reporters, I’m not addressing anyone. I just have to be completely focused on the game and I don’t want to waste it on anything.” other. Energy, that’s why I don’t want to face the media. I will pay the fine myself, the French Football Federation doesn’t have to pay for my personal decisions. We are still some distance from the goal of winning the championship.” After a few words, he gets up and walks away.
Living in the spotlight all the time, young Mbappé has suffered from mistakes. Before the start of last year’s European Championship, he publicly responded to Giroud’s controversial topic at a press conference, which plunged the French team into rumors of infighting; under enormous public pressure, he missed a key penalty in the European Championship, causing the French team was upset and eliminated by the Swiss team, in an interview this year, Mbappe said that South American football does not is as good as European football.Shortly after his contract renewal in Paris, he hinted that he was not happy with the team, and now there are rumors of leaving the team…
Many people believe that after Mbappé won the World Cup in his under 20s, he was unable to win the Champions League and Golden Globe because he was distracted by too much off-field affairs.
Perhaps it was because of this awareness that this time he chose this somewhat extreme silence. Thus, the whole world saw how terrifying a concentrated Mbappe could be. Without Benzema, Pogba and Kante, Mbappé has become the benchmark of the team, scoring points in front of goal, volleying vigorously, heading and assisting, almost omnipotent.
“There is no stopping the current Mbappé.” The Polish coach Michnievic sighed: “I’m rooting everyone for his performance. He will replace Messi and Ronaldo and become (the best) in the coming years of) that player.”
France coach Didier Deschamps was even happier with his favorite pupil’s progress: “He’s very confident, you can see he’s calm and concentrated. Mbappé has the ability to solve many problems, which is good for us.”
Mbappe, who loves words like gold, rarely updated his social media on the 3, wishing the ‘king of the ball’ Pele, who was ill and hospitalised, a speedy recovery. A day later, he surpassed Pelé’s World Cup goalscoring record for players under the age of 24 with nine goals in two World Cups. The 35-year-old Messi didn’t score his ninth goal until his fifth World Cup. In his lifetime, Maradona scored eight goals at the World Cup.
Mbappé is like born for the World Cup. Perhaps a new legendary story is being staged in Qatar.
