Since he debuted with the French team, Kylian Mbappé set out to try to break all individual records for ‘Les Bleus‘. All-time top scorer in the World Cup finals, third top scorer in the history of the tricolor, second top French scorer in the World Cups, only behind Just Fontaine, the new Real Madrid player glimpses another mark, although the difficulty is extremeexaggerated, equal Michel Platini’s goals in a European Championship, or at least get close.
In 1984 in France, Le Roi carried out one of the greatest exhibitions in the history of national team football.. He scored nine goals in five games and was crowned the all-time top scorer of the Euro Cups, a mark surpassed in 2021 by Cristiano Ronaldo, although the Portuguese, unlike Platini, needed five tournaments, while the French legend only needed five games.
It is unthinkable that a player like Kylian Mbappé, with an overwhelming ability to score, has not yet made his debut in a European Championship. The only one he played, in 2021, ended with zero goals in four games, but two assists. He even missed the decisive penalty in the round of 16 against Switzerland that completed the elimination of Deschamps’ team, threatening to retire from the national team.
Now, the captain of the French team wants to redeem himself and will try to take his team to the top, trying to beat a record that, in view of the equality that currently prevails in European football, seems impossible to achieve. Platini was a hurricane in 1984, in another century and in a very different football than right now. But if there is something that motivates Mbappé, it is the substantial challengesthe individual brands, the impossible epics, which could, although this seems less likely, bring him closer to a hypothetical Ballon d’Or.
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