The agents—dozens of them—who approached them to become Kylian's representatives ever since the eight-year-old was making fun of defenders twice his size with Bondy were rebuffed. The financial advisers who offered to broker sponsorship deals met with the same response: father Wilfrid would take care of his son's sporting career, mother Fayza of all the rest, with Kylian having the final word in any decision involving his future.
his reaction cannot be faked. You can see it, his reaction is an emotional reaction. I don't see any benefit for him to go to the referee, and put all this misery on his shoulders. There is absolutely no reason for Vini Junior to go and do this, and he does it and when he does it, I think, in his mind he's doing it more because it's the right thing to do, in that moment.
Mbappé defended Vinícius after the game, and told Spanish TVE: "There's Benfica's No. 25, I don't want to say his name because he doesn't deserve to be named, that started speaking badly. "Then he pulled his jersey up to here [covering his mouth] to say that Vini is a monkey five times. I heard it. There are Benfica players that also heard it."
Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe will miss Sunday's La Liga home game against Real Betis due to a knee injury but is pushing to be available for next week's Spanish Super Cup semifinal against Atletico Madrid, manager Xabi Alonso has said. The 27-year-old France captain, who equalled Cristiano Ronaldo's club record of 59 goals in a calendar year for Real in their 2-0 La Liga win over Sevilla on December 20, has a sprain in his left knee.
The European Golden Shoe or Golden Boot was launched in 1967-68 by French newspaper L'Equipe to celebrate the leading goalscorer in league matches from the top division of a European league. European Sports Media took over the award from the 1997-98 season, deciding it would be won on a weighted points-based system, with the goals that players score multiplied by a specific number denoted by the Uefa coefficient of the league they play in.
"It's a special day, it's my birthday. Since I was little, I've said it's a dream to play a professional match on my birthday, especially with Real Madrid, the club of my dreams," Mbappe told Real Madrid TV. "We won, which was very important. It was the goal. And the record is incredible. In my first year, to do it like my idol, the best in Real Madrid's history, a benchmark for world football.
