2025-09-11 09:13:06
Kylian Mbappe is “disgusted” by the world of football.
The Real Madrid star has revealed that only his passion for the game keeps him playing at times and suggested that he will not tell his children to take up the sport.
In an interview with L’Equipe newspaper, Mbappe said: “I’m fatalist about the world of football, but not about life. Life is wonderful. Football is what it is.
“I like to say that people who go to the stadium are lucky to only come and see a show and not know what’s going on behind the scenes. Honestly, if I didn’t have this passion, the football world would have disgusted me a long time ago.
“That’s the world we live in, and we can’t change it. I will never advise a child of mine to step into the football world.”
Mbappe admits that the lavish salaries that footballers can earn are fraught with problems.
The French international said: “The more money you have, the more problems you have.
“Some people don’t see that your life has changed; they want to hold on to the image of you as a child, when you were with them. But you’re not the same person any more. You have responsibilities, commitments, a job, people to answer to …”
Mbappe feels as though the public “don’t know” him and feels that opinions about him expressed from the outside do not reflect the truth.
He said: “I often say that people don’t know me. A lot of what is said about me is far from the truth. Some people spend their entire careers waiting for recognition or for people to really know who they are. You have to learn to live with that.
“You waste a lot of energy if you spend your time fighting it, and you’ll never win. When you look at the great French athletes, they’ve all been torn apart by public opinion at some point. I think it’s a necessary part of the process, and I’m fine with that.”
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