"Mbappe is doing his job well. He's moved from a 'playball' player to an extremely efficient tablehunter, one who decides the game. Mbappe had two consecutive years of winning the title King to break the net in Spain. We're being too hard on him, but that harshness aims at the outfield spokespersons of more than the performances on the field", Platini spoke out for the Mbappe protection in terms of expertise.

Former UEFA Chairman Michel Platini spoke before the media when he left the court after being acquitted of charges of corruption at Mohammez, Switzerland, March 25, 2025. Image: Reuters

"Mbappe absolutely has the right to express opinion when not wearing a team gang or wearing a team", the owner of three consecutive Golden Balls from 1983 to 1985 began giving advice. "Where in Real Madrid or wherever he is, he can express his personal political stance. But once he's got the captain's tape of the blue shirt, he's representing and competing for the entire French people. Now Mbappe's choice of sides was very hard to accept".

Former French drafter and former Euro 1984 champions later emphasized: "The intellectuals who speak out about social issues are good. Players are not fools, many of them are intelligent and need to speak. But I advise Mbappe to learn the more closed players. In the current era and social media scene, Mbappe should look at how the Zidane, Messi or Ronaldo did. They rarely express their views on sensitive matters. Once you choose the side, you're going to spoil half the world. Be careful!".

Mbappe on the cover of American magazine Vanity Fair in the December 12, 2026 edition. Image: Vanity Fair

Mbappe's concerns have deep causes. In 1998 when France champions World Cup, Jean-Marie Le Pen - leader of the French right-wing movement at the time - complained that the team had too many African-born players. Zidane - who grew up in a social ward in Marseille, had parents who were Algerian-born — was the regular goal of these foreign ideas, despite the 1998 championships being expected to open a new era for a multicultural French nation.

Jordan Bardella - The young leader of the National Gathering Party - although not attacking the French race based on ethnicity of players as Le Pen had previously done, this politician described them as the ones who left the lives of the laborers. "When you're lucky to own a massive wage, being a millionaire, having a chance to move by your own muscle, I feel a little bit ridiculous seeing these sports characters go up to the class of people who are struggling to run every meal," Bardella once said.

And also on Vanity Fair himself, Mbappe responded: "You may be a player, an international star, but first you are a citizen. We are not separate from the world, nor are we indifferent to what is happening in our country. People sometimes think that because you have money, because you're famous, those kinds of problems won't affect you. But it did affect me, because I understood what it meant and the implications that could happen to the country once such people took power. We're citizens. We have the right to make our views as anyone else".

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