“Soon, I won’t envy you anymore”: Kylian Mbappé’s anecdote about his meeting with Léon Marchand

In an interview given to Canal + this Sunday, December 8, Kylian Mbappé talks about his meeting with the four-time Olympic champion, Léon Marchand.

When a world football champion meets the world swimming prodigy. Kylian Mbappé, in an interview with Canal +, told an anecdote with Léon Marchand.

The French striker was not yet at Real Madrid and the Toulouse swimmer was not yet a quadruple Olympic champion. “I met him a year and a half ago with his family, Mbappé first explains. I told him: “I envy you a lot, but soon, I won't envy you anymore.” And he answers me: “But why, you're Kylian ?””

“He wrote history”

He continues, smiling: “For now, you live. But given your talent, given what you're going to do, soon, you're going to come with me and you're not going to live anymore.”

Then he concludes: “It's great because he wrote history, did something fantastic. But he's going to enter the club of those who are seen everywhere and all the time.”