This frame grab taken from a video released by French football player Kylian Mbappe on his INSTAGRAM/@k.mbappe account on May 10, 2024, shows the football star announcing his departure from French team Paris Saint-Germain . — AFP picFRANCE, May 11 — French President Emmanuel Macron said today he hoped star footballer Kylian Mbappe would be freed up by his likely future club Real Madrid to take part in the Paris Olympics for France.
“I’m counting on Real Madrid to free up Kylian for the Olympic Games so he can come play with the French team,” Macron said in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter. Mbappe confirmed on Friday that he will leave French champions Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season, with Real Madrid widely expected to be his next destination.
Real Madrid has already said that it will not lift its players’ obligations to the club in favour of their participation in the Olympics Games which are not part of the FIFA-designated international tournaments for which clubs must free up their players.The 25-year-old World Cup-winning forward and France captain said himself last week that he wasn’t “thinking much” about the Games.
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