France star Kylian Mbappé on Euro 2024: ‘I actually wish to win this’

By Editorial Team Last updated Jun 13, 2024

France has the second-best odds to win Euro 2024 (+380), and its captain, Kylian Mbappé, is hungry to return by way of this spring.

“It should be an incredible expertise, for certain … I actually wish to win this,” Mbappé stated in a latest interview with CNN Sports activities concerning the Euros. “It is my first competitors as captain, so it is actually vital for me, and it is at all times vital for the nation, and we would like them to be happy with us.”

France is coming off a heartbreaking, penalty kick loss to Lionel Messi and Argentina within the 2022 FIFA Males’s World Cup. In stated sport, Mbappé scored twice for France, whereas main the event with eight mixed objectives.

Whereas he feels that it is “tough” to take pleasure in France’s 2022 efforts and the epic World Cup closing, Mbappé needs to stay targeted on the current.

“I believe we have now to maneuver ahead,” Mbappé stated of the 2022 World Cup loss. “In fact, we had been harm that we had been near [being] back-to-back [World Cup champions], one thing wonderful, one thing historic. All people beloved the sport, exception us; we did not love that, however it’s a part of the sport. Now, once I watch the video of the sport, I watch with a smile as a result of it is a part of the historical past, and we all know what we have now to do if we’re within the closing once more.”

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Mbappé was on France’s 2018 World Cup championship crew.

Outdoors of taking part in for France, the 25-year-old Mbappé not too long ago wrapped up his seventh and closing season with Paris Saint-Germain (he spent the primary three years of his profession with Monaco) and is now embarking on his subsequent journey with Actual Madrid. Mbappé is a three-time French Participant of the Yr.

France’s first motion comes on June 17, because it faces off in opposition to Austria in Group D (3 p.m. ET on FOX and the FOX Sports activities app).

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