Kylian Mbappe is contemplating an early retirement from the French national team, having missed the vital penalty in the game against Switzerland in Euro 2020.
“I have always placed the French national team above everything and I will always put it above everything,” he told L’Equipe, as per Get French Football News. “I have never taken a single Euro to play for the French national team and I will always play for my national team for free. Above all, I never wanted to be a problem.
“But from the moment where I felt like that I was starting to become a problem and that people felt I was a problem… “The most important thing is the French national team and if the French national team is happier without me, it is like that.”
“I have so much love for the French national team that I abstract from it all. What shocked me, again, was being called a monkey for the penalty. That is what I wanted support around, not because I took my penalty to the left and Sommer stopped it: that, that is on me, that is my foot that did that.
“I was booed in all of the stadiums in France (laughs). Aside from that, there was not just that, there was also the transfer, but the reality is that I was booed in all the stadiums yes.”
Mbappe also spoke to L’Equipe about the summer transfer saga with Real Madrid, where he confirmed that he asked to leave PSG this summer. However, despite Los Blancos making three huge bids for the striker, PSG didn’t let him go.
