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Guest of the show “Clique” broadcast this Sunday, December 8 on Canal +, Kylian Mbappé spoke about the overloaded schedule of football players… making a comparison with other athletes such as Antoine Dupont.
This is a question that has come up more and more recently. Faced with the accumulation of matches and repeated injuries, some observers wonder if the pace imposed on footballers is not excessive and risky for their health. This is the case of Mouloud Achour, presenter of the show “Clique” who questioned Kylian Mbappé about this infernal pace.
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“ We don't have any recovery periods… We can't play the semi-finals of the Euro in mid-July and then return to the club for the pre-season at the end of July… We have to give ourselves some recovery,” replied the player. Real Madrid, who explained that these sequences of matches, training sessions and events without any real break were one of the reasons for his absences from the French team.
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To support his point, Mbappé compared his situation to that of other sports stars: “If we look at other sports, it's different. In the NBA, they have four months. Léon Marchand? He didn't go at the world championships? He went on vacation for two months, he went to Miami, he went anywhere… He came back peacefully. If we leave for two months, our heads will be cut in two! .” Criticized in relation to his performances, Kylian Mbappé also explained during this interview the reasons for his absence from the French team and the background to his departure from PSG.
