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Who's that little kid?

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He's special, isn't he?

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When I saw him the first time play,

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I said, "We have Pele here".

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And people said, "You are crazy".

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{\an8} Mbappe!

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For a long time, it didn't seem possible that anybody could reach

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the levels of Messi and Ronaldo.

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{\an8} France out!

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It was toxic, insulting,

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to the point that he thought about quitting the national team.

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He does more than just score goals.

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He takes your breath away when you watch.

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There's an arrogance.

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You have to have that.

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He's the best player in the world.

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{\an8}Now Mbappe with a shooting chance!

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{\an8}He's done it again!

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When you're a champ, there's something extra that is not normal.

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He is box office.

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He's one of the biggest names in global sport.

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The question is always what?

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What makes Kylian Mbappe so special?

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{\an8}France are the 1998 world champions.

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Je m'appelle Lilian Thuram.

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FRENCH CORRESPONDENT REPORTS

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The story of Kylian Mbappe starts in Bondy,

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which is a town north of Paris.

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Very multicultural, of course, like all the banlieues.

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There's not much money.

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Football is one of the escape that you can find.

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But life is tough.

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{\an8}It's the city of the beginning, where everything starts.

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I learned everything there.

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I just want to follow my dream.

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Kylian grew up in a small flat,

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literally overlooking the AS Bondy football pitch.

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Imagine, like, the window of your kitchen looks into the stadium.

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So, you will go with your dad all the time.

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From a very young age, he had models and examples to follow.

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There was a feeling within that family

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that he was special.

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Kylian's dad is Wilfried Mbappe, whose family is from Cameroon.

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The mum is Fayza Lamari, from Algeria originally,

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who used to be a professional handball player.

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They had a vision for how to give Kylian the best evolution.

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You need, with the family, to find the right environment

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for the player.

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On my experience, if you could play in France at the age of nine, ten,

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11, 12, you're identified and you get an opportunity to play.

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France understood very early that you had to put the best

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with the best,

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and that's why we created Clairefontaine.

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They take 20 odd kids a year to be in the National Institute

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of Development, where you live, sleep, breathe football.

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Where everything is done to give you the best chance

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to become a top professional and play for France.

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Wow, memories.

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You get the bag with the boots...

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..that are yours.

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Suddenly, you see grass all the time.

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And I could play football every day.

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You're away from your family.

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You're 11, 12. You're on your own.

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You're on your own with boys that sometimes are bigger than you.

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They're better than you at football.

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Clairefontaine - as lovely as it is - it's the jungle.

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Kylian Mbappe, at the age of 13, didn't necessarily stand out

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more than certain other players.

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You can see when a guy went to Clairefontaine.

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The way they develop your brain is second to none,

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in terms of the game.

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By the second year, he was really starting to look the business

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and people were thinking, "Ah, I think we've got a very,

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very special talent on our hands".

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Got scouts from everywhere

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trying to talk to Wilfried and to Fayza.

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His parents, they are his agents.

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They made the decisions for him.

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They had a plan how to, you know, make this talent blossom.

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I think it's really, really fantastic if you're a young player

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of those kind of gifts that your parents are capable

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of turning around to the agents and the vultures...

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..at a very young age and saying,

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"Thank you very much but no, thanks".

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They wanted somewhere quiet, where the academy was good,

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producing players.

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And for that, Caen, for example, in Normandy.

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Perfect.

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"We're the Mbappe family.

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"What do we do now? Who wants him?

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"Who wants Kylian?"

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You know, I tried to convince him to come to Arsenal.

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I was at his home with his parents.

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He was a happy boy and wanted just to play football

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and had the passion for the game.

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Sending Kylian to develop himself outside of France

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was never part of Wilfried and Fayza's plan.

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All over Europe would come in and say, "Come to us".

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It was never about the prestige of the club, because they could have

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gone to Real Madrid already, to Chelsea, to Arsenal,

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to Manchester United.

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It was always about good academy, good coaches.

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And, in the end, they chose Monaco.

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When you're 15 and you arrive in an academy,

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it's a key time in your journey.

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It's almost make or break.

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If you're very good and you can show it,

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you know that the first team is getting closer and closer.

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In football, until the age of 16, its education.

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From 17 onwards, you go in the hard world of competition.

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Then it becomes a different world.

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Kylian Mbappe, for me, when I think about Mbappe,

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I think about the little kid that started with us.

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Right from the beginning, you could see that he was different.

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One of my best friends in football, Joao Moutinho,

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after this first training session, he came to me and he said,

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"Who's that little kid? He's special, isn't he?"

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Bernardo Silva.

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Bernardo Silva!

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Goal!

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He was not shy at all.

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And when you're 16 and you go train with the big guys,

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you don't want to humiliate the older guys.

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He would just destroy everyone.

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Sometimes it is a little bit the problem of the players

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when their level is too high.

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When they are challenged and they play with better players,

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they can raise their level.

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Some players, when they're very young, they're more focused about

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dribbling and about making it nice, and not being as effective.

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He didn't care if it was pretty - he wanted to score the goal.

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And that's not easy to find in a 16, 17, 18-year-old kid.

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When you see someone with this quality in the team,

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you also want to embrace the kid,

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cos you know that kid can help us winning things, you know?

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{\an8}He was a main part of our campaign in the Champions League

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{\an8}on beating Manchester City in the last 16.

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That first leg, Kylian starts.

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He terrified the City defence.

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{\an8}Ball played over the top for Monaco.

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{\an8}Oh, Mbappe's in! Mbappe scores!

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{\an8}And the 18-year-old has scored on his first start

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{\an8}in the Champions League!

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He put his name on the map of European football.

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"I've arrived. Look at me."

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We won the league with one game to play.

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Winning the league with Monaco is an unbelievable achievement,

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cos it's not easy to beat PSG.

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Everyone was drinking and partying.

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He just went home.

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He wouldn't drink because he wanted to prepare for the last game.

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He was so obsessed with football that he wanted to be able to

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play that game properly.

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This obsession for football and this love for the game,

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it's what got him to where he is right now, I think, as well.

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Real Madrid, who'd been chasing him since he was 11,

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had a deal with Monaco.

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145 million euros - for an 18-year-old.

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And Monaco said to Kylian,

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"Listen, this is too good for us to turn down.

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We've decided to sell you to Real Madrid."

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And Kylian went, "Whoa, whoa, whoa. Nobody tells me what to do.

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I decide my own future".

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"Not you, not him, not her."

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"Me. Me and my family."

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When a family member becomes involved,

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there's a lot of unpredictability.

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Because you are not just the representative in that negotiation.

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But you are a mother, a father.

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They felt betrayed by Monaco.

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Wilfried was not happy that, behind their back,

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Monaco and Real Madrid had that deal.

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So, they said, "We're not going to Madrid.

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We're either staying, or we're going somewhere else, then".

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And PSG were there, they said, "This is perfect for you.

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This is your hometown. This is your home club".

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"Come home."

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It was a deal worth 180 million,

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initially as a loan, and then a permanent transfer.

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And that's not the sort of money that Real Madrid would be

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prepared to pay for anybody.

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The big marquee signing is Neymar, who also signed that summer.

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Neymar is very much the example to follow.

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You've got to look at who you're up against, in Cavani and with Neymar.

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Yes, you want to beat them, or you might want to take their spot

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in the team. But you've also got to say, "OK, you've done it

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at the highest level. I'd be a fool not to look at you

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and learn from you".

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I was a performance director at PSG.

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My role was really about looking at the health of the player,

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especially on the performance side.

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We knew he was a pretty good kid.

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But it's only maybe through the summer we got to understand

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the value, and when we got the final numbers, the fees for his transfer

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kind of set a landmark on the expectation that we would have now

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from a player like him.

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Back in my time, he would never be a leader of the locker,

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like, the guy who talks, the guy who leads.

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He left that to the older guys.

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But he was just so good at training and games.

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You have to make space for someone like him.

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When you start to think what he has,

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you think it's more simple to think what he has not.

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The balance, the technique, the ability to run with the ball.

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You start to realise how good the kid is.

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And I said, a kid, you know?

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But you realise also that there is so much room for improvement.

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We had many, many arguments.

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I would always have to explain, convince him why he should be

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doing more in the gym, why he should be drinking differently, or eating.

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And, of course, these are the stuff that you need to learn.

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There's very few people in our game who push themselves

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as far as they can.

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Very few.

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Who do absolutely everything every day, every morning,

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every afternoon to focus on getting better.

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The question is, how much does he want to push himself?

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Paris Saint-Germain are the champions of Ligue 1

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for 2017-18,

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in what is Kylian Mbappe's first season with the club.

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Knowing him, in his mind, and with that determination and ambition,

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2018 was always for him, "I need to be at that World Cup".

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Everyone knew about his talent.

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But doing it on the biggest stage of all is another step altogether.

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Even going into his first World Cup, he was still a teenager.

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It helps you to be very young.

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At that time, not a lot was expected from him,

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on the responsibility front.

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It's really important when there is new players coming into

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the changing room that they feel confident.

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{\an8}And then, when you get picked by the manager, it means

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that you deserve to be in the squad.

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My name is Perfect Didier.

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With the knowledge that you're going to be under global scrutiny

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at the age of 19, he was trusted by Deschamps from the first game.

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{\an8}It's a winning start for France.

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{\an8}Not sparkling, at times not convincing,

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{\an8}but relief for Didier Deschamps and his men.

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The key moment of the World Cup is the day after the Australia win,

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when in the team meeting Deschamps singles out Kylian.

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Deschamps is a master of man management.

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He knows exactly how to get the best out of Kylian.

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He keeps his feet on the ground.

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And so this is a pivotal moment in his development.

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He scored his first goal in the group stages against Peru.

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You see in his celebration that he felt absolutely at home

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on that stage.

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He belonged there, and scoring goals was what he was predestined to do.

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{\an8}The game against Argentina in the last 16 was one of the best

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{\an8}football matches I think I've ever seen.

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I think, with Kylian Mbappe, you have to see him in the flesh

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to realise how good he is.

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On television, he's incredible.

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When you're in the stadium, and he goes on one of those runs

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and he accelerates,

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you know you're witnessing greatness.

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{\an8}Tagliafico beaten to that by Mbappe.

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{\an8}Watch him go.

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{\an8}And Mbappe down!

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{\an8}It's a penalty for France!

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This action is just incredible.

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I mean, he was so quick.

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So quick that he was almost unstoppable.

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I know a lot of people that are fast.

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A lot. Can they play football?

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Nope.

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In that one run, he demonstrated who and what he was.

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All the world discovered him at that time.

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Speed is always important.

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If you combine it with power, precision and technique,

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it's unstoppable.

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{\an8} Mbappe...!

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{\an8}Mbappe!

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Young players are not meant to deliver or do this

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at that age, on the world stage.

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Seeing the fruition of all this great talent

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in a game like that, at the World Cup,

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it was impossible not to just think

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you're watching all-time greatness.

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{\an8} He's done it again!

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{\an8}The boy wonder has two for France!

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The talent has gone through his body,

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and comes out like it's absolutely natural.

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{\an8}That's when we knew that it's more than just hype.

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We knew that it was more than just talent.

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What Kylian Mbappe did in Kazan that day was absolutely transformative.

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The next modern-day superstar was born.

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You have first to think, "I belong to this world.

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It's natural for me to be here".

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"And now it's natural for me, as well, to express my talent

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and to make the difference."

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{\an8}Now Mbappe with a shooting chance.

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{\an8}He's done it again!

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{\an8}The first teenager to score in a World Cup final since Pele!

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When you join a very exclusive club...

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And Pele went on social media and tweeted to Kylian Mbappe

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after the final, "Welcome to the club".

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And you know what? The club has two people in it.

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That automatically puts him onto a new level, in terms of perceptions.

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To do that at 19 is just not normal.

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And the fact that only him and Pele have done it shows you.

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He knew already at that time that he wanted to be one of the best,

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and he was ready for it.

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{\an8}The belief and the determination to know that, "This is my stage.

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This is my game".

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Nothing or no-one could take that away from him.

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He wins the World Cup,

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and the first thing he does is go home to Bondy,

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to his community, to his people.

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You could feel that pride.

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France loves this guy, Kylian Mbappe.

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Players who come from these Paris suburbs, tough places,

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they have a fierce identity to that suburb.

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They are very, very proud to be able to say, "I'm from Bondy,"

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and to represent their hometown in a positive fashion.

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The mural in Bondy is him sleeping in a Bondy shirt,

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dreaming about playing for France at the World Cup.

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That's all he wants the kids in Paris, in France,

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is to be able to dream.

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After the World Cup, the perception, I think, is very different.

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When you're already a world champion,

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which Neymar's never done...

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It's not so much Kylian being in Neymar's shadow any more.

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Now you have this young kid, now he's world champ,

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and the status has changed again.

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The reorganisation of the hierarchy in the locker,

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they happen subconsciously.

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Kylian always wants to be the superstar, though.

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There's no room for two.

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I think Kylian always wanted to be the number one.

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If your shoulders are wide enough for it, go and take it.

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There are some critics who have their queries about

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Mbappe's personality within the group, you know,

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the egos and how it all works out.

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It was important to make Kylian be able to express himself

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and to deal with all the attention that's going to come his way,

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that might be separate attention to some of the rest of the group.

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I've had a lot of, let's say, thoughts, reflection around

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the concept of ego, overall, in sports.

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Ego is a necessary drive for success.

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We all have an ego.

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Ego is part of our identity.

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I'm not always sure that we should say,

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"Yeah, leave your ego at the door".

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Because that will be like taking out something that is a part of you.

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But it's more about having hand on the dial...

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..and put the volume up when you really need to stand out,

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when you need to make things happen.

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Maybe because of his age,

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he didn't always have the hand on the dial.

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I could feel that maybe the parents had the volume in their hand,

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and they help him a lot to be able to play with that.

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You have to have a great mentality

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and a belief to be one of the world's best players at that age.

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It's one thing doing it for one season or two seasons.

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Then it becomes more difficult,

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because everyone knows who you are and what you are.

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So, then to deliver, and then to deliver, and keep going

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and keep going, then that's the true test of a top quality player.

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France had the best team in the world.

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This is the 2020 Euros being played in 2021, after Covid.

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There was a lot of expectancy that France would win Euro 2020.

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And it felt like history might repeat itself, from '98 to 2000.

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This is now a different team than in 2018,

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with strong personalities, big egos.

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But even with all of that, you have a front three of Griezmann,

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Mbappe and Benzema.

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Nobody can beat you. It's impossible.

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It's Switzerland in the last 16.

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The first half is not good.

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{\an8} Mbappe!

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But the second half is some of the best football

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I've seen France play in a very long time.

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{\an8} Pogba!

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And it just blew Switzerland apart.

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One minute they were really enjoying themselves,

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and the next minute...

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{\an8} This is the chance.

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{\an8}Oh, and an equaliser!

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{\an8}With 12 seconds of the 90 minutes remaining!

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We probably missed 10, 15 minutes in that game,

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and everything changed. And it happens, you know?

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It belongs to football.

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It was a little bit a mental fiasco

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and not the same solidarity in the team.

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And then penalties is when the drama happened.

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{\an8}So, now it comes down to Kylian Mbappe.

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{\an8}The world's most expensive teenager.

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{\an8}Has to find the back of the net to keep the French dream alive.

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Everything about his career, up to that point,

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had to be brilliant

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at whatever it is that he tries to touch.

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You're not really overthinking it at that point.

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It's just happening.

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It's just happening naturally for him.

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{\an8}France out of Euro 2020.

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You ask anyone who's missed an important penalty,

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and they will tell you that it is deeply isolating

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and you feel a sense of guilt that is just yours to bear.

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It's your burden.

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There had been tensions within the squad,

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and maybe the most telling, in a way, is that Kylian misses,

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and hardly no French players come and console him.

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And I think he feels really lonely there.

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He had failed.

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And now, for the first time in his life, this was a setback.

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Unfortunately, in this modern era,

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you can just imagine the backlash on social media.

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Hundreds of thousands of messages.

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Like, sickening things.

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To the point that he thought about quitting the national team.

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He was affected by that.

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He felt it was not right to treat him like he was treated.

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What I think made the difference is that resilience, the character

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that he has in him - from Bondy, from the banlieue.

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When the rumour first arrived in that summer,

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like, no, impossible.

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Messi arrived.

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Of course, there's a lot of excitement.

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Because he's the greatest player of all time.

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As much as he's excited to play with Messi,

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I think he knows that a front three of Messi, Neymar and Mbappe

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on paper looks amazing.

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In real life, it's a very different story.

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Every single football fan was dreaming to see

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them playing together.

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When you build a team, and when it's bringing someone

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like Messi, for example, you have to be very careful

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and mindful about the compatibility among the players.

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If one helps the other, they're going to all benefit

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from the success of the team.

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Let's be honest, none of the three like chasing back...!

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But you wouldn't expect that kind of player to chase back.

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You want them to reserve all their energies for their brilliance.

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I don't think Messi ever really found his place.

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I don't think that front three was good enough to win

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the Champions League, because there were more issues than benefit

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of having them there.

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{\an8}Paris Saint-Germain just capitulated.

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{\an8}They had the big players.

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{\an8}They couldn't provide the answer.

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All PSG wanted was that Kylian Mbappe, Lionel Messi

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and Neymar were still PSG players for the World Cup in Qatar.

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PSG are owned by Qatar.

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For the image of PSG - or football, in general

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the best players in the world have to be PSG players for the World Cup.

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Kylian is somebody who isn't satisfied with winning a World Cup.

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He wants to be the next Pele.

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He wants to be the next player to win multiple World Cups.

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In 2018, nobody knew what to expect from him.

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Whereas four years on, he carries a completely

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different level of expectation.

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When Kylian Mbappe today goes into a World Cup,

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everybody looks at him and says, "You can win this for us,

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so do it". You know?

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He went into this World Cup with that commando mentality.

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"I'm here on a mission."

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{\an8}- For Mbappe!
- And he has his goal.

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{\an8} Mbappe waiting!

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{\an8}Mbappe scoring, again!

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Mbappe was no longer just a goal-scoring winger.

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He was the talisman of the team.

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He would be the one that they would turn to.

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{\an8}During this World Cup, I know he takes the responsibility,

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{\an8}of the team to help the team to reach this final.

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{\an8}This man is unstoppable.

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Greatness will come from winning World Cups,

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and that is his ultimate goal.

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The feeling that we had in Qatar,

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everybody wanted Messi and Argentina to win.

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Everybody, apart from France.

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One had already won the World Cup.

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The other one had won absolutely everything you can win in life.

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And this is his final moment.

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It was billed, wasn't it, as Messi versus Mbappe?

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And whenever you get those things, they always let you down.

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Not this time.

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{\an8} Di Maria.

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{\an8}Lovely swivel of the hips.

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{\an8}And down he goes, Di Maria. Penalty, Argentina!

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{\an8}The focus is on Lionel Messi.

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{\an8}Messi scores!

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It looked like being 2-0.

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Very good performance from Argentina.

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Really poor performance from France.

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France didn't turn up in the first 45 minutes.

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{\an8}Argentina well on top in the World Cup final!

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{\an8}For him to have a chance to win another World Cup,

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{\an8}he had to find the right words to inspire this dressing room again.

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He has that capacity, yes, to be a leader.

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And in these special circumstances, sometimes there are players

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who raise up and bring that speech that mobilises everybody.

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You can confuse it with arrogance - but it's not.

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It's confidence.

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He knows that they all know he's their best player.

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And he's entitled to stand up and do that.

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The first 15 minutes of the second half is not much more improvement.

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You just need one spark...

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..and then that's it.

501
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,560
{\an8}Otamendi had the head start but he's been beaten

502
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:39,760
{\an8}and that's going to be a penalty.

503
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:41,840
{\an8}And Thuram's down. And that's going to be a penalty.

504
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:48,320
I think it takes a special kind of character up there,

505
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,000
when you're in shock and on the floor,

506
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:55,880
you are the first to get up and dust yourself down,

507
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,040
and you drag everyone with you.

508
00:49:14,840 --> 00:49:18,520
His growth from 2018 to 2022,

509
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:21,440
in terms of almost patriarchal figure of their side,

510
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,480
is quite extraordinary.

511
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,240
But that's done not by being the person you are,

512
00:49:28,240 --> 00:49:30,680
it's done by being what you've done on the pitch,

513
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:34,080
because that's what, ultimately, players respect.

514
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:38,760
They know that they've got a special talent that will help them win.

515
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:42,600
{\an8} Mbappe...

516
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:44,280
{\an8}Gets the return!

517
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:46,760
{\an8}Incroyable!

518
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:50,840
And then it's 2-2, suddenly, from nowhere.

519
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,840
With the magic of Kylian, we came back into the game,

520
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,960
and then it was like a boxing fight.

521
00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:05,680
When you're the superstar, then everyone looks to you to perform.

522
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:07,400
You either sink or swim.

523
00:50:10,160 --> 00:50:14,080
{\an8}Lionel Messi with one more twist in the tale!

524
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,200
Those two figures showed up, and that's what the greats do.

525
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:20,920
{\an8} There's Mbappe.

526
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:24,360
{\an8}There is another change around here - a France penalty!

527
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:29,080
Well, if he tells you that he's not nervous, he's lying.

528
00:50:29,080 --> 00:50:32,240
If you care about football, if you care about the game,

529
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:34,200
you're always a bit nervous,

530
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,200
and you have that feeling inside your stomach.

531
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:37,800
But that's a good thing,

532
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:40,400
because that makes you ready for the moment.

533
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,800
{\an8}This is the moment for only the second-ever

534
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,680
{\an8}hat-trick scored in a World Cup final.

535
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,040
He doesn't shake in those moments.

536
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:56,680
{\an8}Mbappe! A hat-trick in the biggest game of all!

537
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:05,320
To carry a whole team and a whole country on his back

538
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:09,200
to get to 3-3, and to give hope to a whole nation,

539
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,000
this is what the greatest do.

540
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,800
I don't know exactly how many players can do that

541
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,960
and have this strong mentality to score this one again, you know.

542
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:36,360
{\an8}The 22nd World Cup final has gone to penalties.

543
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:42,080
You know if you've missed a penalty, like he has, on the biggest stage

544
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,120
of all, penalties would have been on his mind.

545
00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,200
{\an8}Well, well, well, it comes to this.

546
00:51:50,600 --> 00:51:54,360
I was surprised he took the first penalty.

547
00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:00,120
{\an8}And Mbappe will score for France.

548
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,160
And this was like, "OK, I will score

549
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:06,160
and give confidence to the other players".

550
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:09,600
{\an8}"Whatever you can do, I will endeavour to do as well."

551
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:15,160
When Messi goes down, he knows this is now or never.

552
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,120
It's his last chance to win the World Cup.

553
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,880
{\an8} And he rolls it in.

554
00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:25,520
{\an8}That's incredible.

555
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,960
At that moment, when you are in football,

556
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:31,600
you think these guys are not normal.

557
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:35,960
{\an8}Tchouameni really has to score.

558
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:37,600
{\an8}Wide!

559
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:42,280
When we missed, he was still believing, and he said,

560
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:43,840
"Yes, don't worry".

561
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,400
He keep this mentality until the end.

562
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,600
{\an8} It's Argentina!

563
00:52:51,600 --> 00:52:54,080
{\an8}Kings of football for the third time!

564
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:04,040
Messi won the day.

565
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:09,240
But Mbappe's performance was elevated so much.

566
00:53:09,240 --> 00:53:14,240
You could almost see the present and the future in the same moment.

567
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:39,960
To produce something individual of that level within a team sport,

568
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:44,200
it cemented his place as the heir apparent.

569
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,160
On that day was a relay.

570
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:50,520
You know?

571
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:53,120
Where you see that one takes over from the other one.

572
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,520
Yes, I'm convinced of that.

573
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,400
When you're a child, you want it all.

574
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:05,520
When you're an adult, you have to learn to compromise.

575
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:11,440
And that's a learning process of becoming absolutely exceptional.

576
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,600
If Didier Deschamps thinks that Kylian - not can be,

577
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:30,120
he is the captain of this team - that speaks volume.

578
00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:15,040
Players like Kylian have a huge power in our society.

579
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:18,120
They have as much weight as a president of a country.

580
00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:25,520
He is box office.

581
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:29,520
He is a true icon that transcends football.

582
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,960
Whenever you report on Kylian Mbappe,

583
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,080
whenever you talk about him, it takes a different form.

584
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:48,280
He's able to generate a level of conversation

585
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,680
that very few others can.

586
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:54,560
The move to Real Madrid makes a lot of sense for him,

587
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,520
because he's going to join the biggest team in the world.

588
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,640
This will be one of the most iconic transfers we have ever seen.

589
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:04,760
From a young age, he was telling everybody who wanted to listen

590
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,040
that he was going to go and play for Real Madrid.

591
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:08,920
He genuinely believed that.

592
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,720
It's another step up again.

593
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:14,160
I'm sure that he'll deliver, as he has done for most of his life.

594
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,480
He has still ten years at the top level.

595
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,720
That is quite frightening when you look at what

596
00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:28,480
he has already achieved.

597
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:35,240
I think the most remarkable thing I can say about Kylian Mbappe is that

598
00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:38,080
if he stopped playing tomorrow, he would already be considered

599
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,280
one of the greats of our game.

600
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,840
I think for a long time it didn't seem possible that anybody

601
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:51,240
could reach the levels of Messi and Ronaldo.

602
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:57,840
But we have someone in Mbappe who has that chance.

603
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:06,080
Who would I say is the most responsible

604
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,160
for that incredible journey?

605
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:10,760
First and foremost, I think it's Kylian himself.

606
00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:15,120
I think his dad and his mum deserve credit.

607
00:57:15,120 --> 00:57:16,960
Hello. How are you?

608
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,920
Obviously, he's not yet a finished article.

609
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:43,400
But what I can say about this guy, what I see is the passion...

610
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:47,760
..the will, and the love of the game.

611
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:53,200
Now he's at a stage of his career where, in my opinion,

612
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:55,680
he needs to stay calm, stay humble,

613
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,360
because that's what will make him one of the best players

614
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,040
in the history of the game.

615
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:18,000
The problem when you're at the peak, at the top of the world,

616
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:20,960
there's nobody to catch any more.

617
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,880
The real competition is with yourself.