Clint Dempsey knows just what Kylian Mbappé is going through — his nose got broken in the first game of the 2014 World Cup.
Not many people know how Kylian Mbappé is feeling right now — but Clint Dempsey does. Punch the story of Mbappé breaking his nose in his first match at Euro 2024 into a time machine, and it would spit out Dempsey’s World Cup campaign from exactly a decade earlier. The parallels are borderline spooky. Mbappé’s nose got crushed when he collided with the shoulder of Austria’s Kevin Danso in France’s 1-0 win on June 17.
Dempsey said that the restrictions posed by a broken nose are significant and that Mbappé will face some dangers that even a mask can’t safeguard against. 'Those 50/50 challenges when the ball is in the air are the ones,' Dempsey said. 'Or on a set piece, or in midfield and you can catch an elbow. With my one, it was a kick, I don’t even know how he got his foot that high.
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