Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbappé was chosen best player of the season in France, in his last year in the French league, he assured that he leaves “with a torn heart” but said that “what comes will be very exciting.”
“Goodbye or see you soon, I won’t be far away,” said the player, who won that trophy for the fifth consecutive year. a record in the seven he has spent at PSG.
Mbappé said he felt “a great emotion” for ending his career in France and said he was “proud to have been able to take this championship to the highest possible level.”
“I leave with my head held high, I have given everything,” said the footballer, who had words of gratitude for his teammates, for the coach, Luis Enrique, with whom he said “the relationship has always been fluid” and, on tiptoe, passed through the president, Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
He named him with a small mouth before referring to the emir of Qatar, with whom he was more explicit: “He came to look for me when I was 18, he bet on me, he was understanding in many situations and he has accompanied me in making this decision.“.
Last Friday, in the video in which he publicly announced that he would not continue at PSG, he did not even name Al-Khelaifi, which according to the media angered the president. Le Parisien publishes this Monday that the two had a heated dispute last Sunday, shortly before PSG’s last game of the season at the Parc des Princes.
In his speech receiving the award for best player of the year, chosen by his peers, Mbappé acknowledged that he will miss the French league, in which he said he has always felt loved, but he was confident that “what comes will be very exciting” and that you will discover “things that will also make (you) very happy.
“It tears my heart”
This farewell”It tears my heart a little, I leave my country, I start a new life. We are human and we have our weaknesses and emotions and this job does not always allow you to express what you feel, there is a lot of pressure and demand. Today I am a 25-year-old boy who has completed a cycle and leaves behind many feelings,” he said.
Without giving any indication about his future club, Mbappé assured that he would like to play in the Paris Games but acknowledged that it will be difficult.
The player received thanks from the president of the French Professional Football League, Vincent Labrune, who asked him to “come back one day.”
“I am left with the fact that it has been there for seven years, because after his time at Monaco he could have left and decided to stay to make France shine, to make children dream. “I want to thank you in the name of football,” he said.
“I thank PSG and its president, who have allowed us to have you for seven years,” he added.
During the gala, in which Atlético de Madrid player Antoine Griezmann was chosen as the best Frenchman abroad, PSG won most of the awards.
The best goalkeeper trophy went to Gianluigi Donnarummawho won it for the second time in the three years he has been at PSG, while his teammate Warren Zaïre-Emery won the best young man of the year at 18 years old.
The team from the capital missed the award for best coach of the season, which Brest coach Éric Roy, fourth in the league, snatched from Luis Enrique, who is already guaranteed the title.
The capital side placed seven players in the ideal eleven of the year: Gianluigi Donnarumma (PSG); Achraf Hakimi (PSG), Leny Yoro (Lille), Marquinhos (PSG), Bradley Locko (Brest); Vitinha (PSG), Warren Zaire-Emery (PSG), Pierre Lees-Melou (Brest); Ousmane Dembele (PSG), Pierre-Emerick Aubamayeng (Olympique Marseille), Kylian Mbappe (PSG).
In the women’s field, PSG’s Malawian player Tabitha Chawinga was chosen as the best player of the championship, thanks to her 18 goals and 10 assists, while her teammate Louna Ribadeira, 20, won the best young player. AND
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