Didier Deschamps did not call Kylian Mbappé to play in the French team's next matches against Israel and Italy in the Nations League. The coach assures that it is his own decision. Real Madrid, for its part, claims to have no link with this situation.
The France team will continue to advance without its captain. Already absent during the last gathering in October, Kylian Mbappé will not play the next matches against Israel (November 14 at the Stade de France) and Italy (November 17 in Milan) in the Nations League. Didier Deschamps did not include the 25-year-old striker in the list he revealed this Thursday at a press conference. The coach made it known that it was his own decision, specifying that the Real Madrid number 9, who does not suffer from any physical problems, would have liked to come.
The Merengue club, for its part, assures that it was not involved in this non-summoning. “It does not depend on us,” we explain within the Spanish institution. Last month, Kylian Mbappé started against Villarreal in La Liga (2-0, October 5), following his withdrawal from the Blues. A situation which had sparked lively debates in France, with the underlying idea that Real Madrid would have encouraged its player not to go to the selection in order to treat his painful thigh.
“It’s a one-off choice,” explains Deschamps.
During this rest period at the beginning of October, the former Parisian went to Stockholm to spend two days with friends, including Nordi Mukiele. And according to the Swedish press, a young woman accuses him of having raped her in his hotel room. Without naming names, local police confirmed the opening of an investigation after a complaint of rape concerning events that occurred in an establishment in the city center, when Mbappé and his entourage were in Stockholm.
Asked to justify his decision to the media this Wednesday, Didier Deschamps provided some explanations on Mbappé's new absence: “I had several discussions with him and I made this decision on this gathering, because I I think it's better like that. I'm not going to argue. What I can tell you is two things. One: Kylian wanted to come. Two: it's not the extra-sporting problems that come into play. account, from the moment when the presumption of innocence exists (Mbappé would be targeted by a complaint for rape in Sweden, according to the local press, Editor's note). So it is a choice, which, I repeat, is punctual, for). the two matches that await us.
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