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Kylian Mbappé is about to play his first match in the colours of Real Madrid. Twelve years earlier, he had already impressed the Zidane clan.
It’s 2012 and Kylian Mbappé is thirteen years old. While he’s still playing for AS Bondy, the city where he was born, the young boy goes to Valdebebas, Real Madrid’s training center. The purpose of this stay is to carry out a series of tests with the aim of joining the Merengue team’s academy.
“For a child of that age, it’s a dream, something fantastic. I still remember it,”
declared the former Paris Saint-Germain player on this subject in the columns of Parisianin 2021. It was Zinédine Zidane who initiated this first approach between the future captain of the Blues and the most successful football club in Europe.
Mbappé had already caught the eye of Zidanes
One of his sons, Luca, had the opportunity to see Kylian Mbappé at work at that time.“In the Madrid youth team there were very good players, but he looked different. He had that power and was technically very good. You could tell he had something extra (…) He didn’t stay for non-sporting reasons.”confided the second son of the 1998 Ballon d’Or winner, on the occasion of the mini documentary entitled “El Primer Kylian”, on
DAZN.
Twelve years later, Kylian Mbappé is about to play his first match in the colours of Real Madrid. On Wednesday evening, he will most likely be used by Carlo Ancelotti to face Atalanta Bergamo, at the National Stadium in Warsaw, on the occasion of the European Super Cup.
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