VIDEO. Kylian Mbappé: “I didn’t think so, but playing with a mask is absolute horror”
|The captain of the Blues returned to his mask at a press conference. Screenshot X.
"Playing with a mask is an absolute horror", lamented the captain of the France team Kylian Mbappé, forced to wear one since he started playing. #39;broke his nose at Euro 2024, like Monday against Belgium in the round of 16, in Düsseldorf.
"I didn't think so, but playing with a mask is absolute horror, I changed because'every time something went wrong"< /em>, said the Blues superstar, who tried more than four.
"It's really complicated, it limits vision, the sweat gets stuck, you have to remove it for it to flow" ;, described Mbappé, who fractured his nose against Austria (1-0 victory) in the first match while disputing a header with Kevin Danso .
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"As soon as I can take it off, I'll take it off"
He missed the next one against the Netherlands (0-0) and returned for the third, against Poland (1-1), where he scored from the penalty spot. “As soon as I can take it off, I'm going to take it off, but I have no choice, my competition is going to be like this, I can only play like this . It's annoying, but I have to say thank you, to the mask, Mbappé said again.
As for competing for a header again, "I haven'haven't had one since I broke my nose" ;, smiled Mbappé. "But if I have to put it on to score, I'll put it on".