Daniel Riolo, columnist for After Foot on RMC, explains that he rather well received the interview with Kylian Mbappé on Sunday on Canal+. He praises his risk-taking and invites other football stars to imitate him.
Daniel Riolo followed with great interest Kylian Mbappé's expected speech in the show Clique on Canal+ on Sunday. And if he had a lot of preconceptions about the form of the interview – chosen interviewer, friendly questions – the editorialist for After Foot on RMC explains that he was pleasantly surprised by the words of the captain of the team of France which he puts into perspective with the silence of other players. He cites Antoine Griezmann, whose reasons for his international retirement last September remain unclear, or Karim Benzema on the contours of his withdrawal from the 2022 World Cup. Faced with the skepticism of Florent Gautreau, journalist from After, on the background of Mbappé's words, Daniel Riolo welcomes the risk-taking of the 2018 world champion.
“Which other football player is more sincere, gives more?”
“You have the right to blame Mbappé for giving his truth and perhaps, according to you, for lying,” begins Daniel Riolo. “But at that moment, you have to blame Griezmann for not speaking for exactly the same reasons. I put myself in front with an enormous preconception because nothing pleased me, the choice of this broadcast, the choice of this journalist who is not a football journalist, the control of communication and the idea I had of what I was going to see I started, I was rather pleasantly surprised and at the same time. that I was watching this interview with Mbappé, I said to myself: what are the others doing today? Which other football player is more sincere, gives more and will actually give interviews to football journalists?
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“We are in a world where control of communication is so global – even for politicians, excluding interviews, elections, crises,” adds Daniel Riolo. “There are always those who come to give lessons to those who give the interview by saying: 'I would have asked this question'. I arrive with lots of preconceptions and I asked myself: are there any big stars like Zidane, Henry or Griezmann – from whom we expect the truth and who never gives half an interview – (express themselves)? The guys are in a kind of control Mouloud Achour is benevolent but he. has always been like this. I had some preconceptions, telling myself that he (Mbappé) didn't want to talk to football journalists because he's afraid of the question which will anger him. Yes, it bothers me but I can't blame him. Mouloud Achour who does a rather good, caring interview but it's his style. It's unfortunate to choose, there's nothing worse. But when presidents choose their interviewers. that's it misfortune of our times.”
“He talks a lot in a context where no one speaks anymore”
Daniel Riolo was quite impressed with what he heard. “Once everyone is very clear, once we have said that, once we dissect it – even if it is controlled – I find that it answers a lot of things,” adds he. “I add Benzema to the list of people whose words we have been waiting for for a very long time. We have been waiting for his truth for a long time about what happened in Qatar. Journalists have gotten wet. I myself have wet since – for having defended Benzema – I am sued in November in a year by Didier Deschamps There are plenty of cases where the journalists got wet and the guys afterwards – thinking only of their faces and. their business – unpack. You have to know all this heavy context.
He concludes on the same point. “He says a lot of things in the interview. Casually, he talks a lot in a context where no one speaks anymore.”
