PSG star striker Kylian Mbappé bought a painting representing King Pelé on Thursday evening for more than half a million euros.
There will be five. Five PSG players to play Euro 2024 with the France team. And it was together that Warren Zaire-Emery, Bradley Barcola, Ousmane Dembélé, Randal Kolo Muani and Kylian Mbappé learned the news on Thursday evening. When Didier Deschamps’ list was announced, on the set of the TF1 television news, Parisians were indeed all gathered at Place Vendôme for the capital club’s charity gala.
On this occasion, Kylian Mbappé set a new record with a purchase for more than half a million euros, 520,000 euros to be precise. The French striker (25 years old) fell for a painting representing the illustrious Brazilian international Pelé, called “O Rei” (the King in Portuguese) and created by the contemporary artist Alexandre Hopare, originally from the town of Limours in Essonne . A nice gesture for the benefit of the Paris Saint-Germain Foundation.
Mbappé offers more than Hakimi
According to the daily The Parisian, the work was first put up for sale at 5,000 euros and six potential buyers raised the bids to 300,000 euros. There were then only two left, Kylian Mbappé and his friend, the Moroccan right-back Achraf Hakimi, to compete for the table, finally won by the captain of the Blues, crowned world champion in 2018. With the key, therefore , the largest check signed that evening.
But this portrait of Pelé was well worth it for the former Bondynois, who had the opportunity to meet the Auriverde legend in April 2019, during an event organized by the Hublot brand, and had paid tribute to his memory after his death, on December 29, 2022: “The king of football has left us, but his legacy will never be forgotten, rest in peace, King. » In total, 2.7 million euros were raised and will be donated to charity.
