When Kylian Mbappé appeared in front of the microphone this Wednesday, November 12, the day before the match against the Ukrainian selection at the Parc des Princes and the tenth anniversary of the attacks of November 13, he did not wait for the first question to come. “Everyone knows how special this Thursday is, in a bad way, asked the French captain directly. We want to pay attention to everyone who has lost their loved ones, who may be affected, injured, both mentally and physically. We will try to pay tribute to all these people, both during the day and during the game, and put a smile on the faces of the people who will come to the stadium. We want to make France understand that although a place in the World Cup is at stake, there are much more important things, and we are not disconnected.
In fact, the coach, Didier Deschamps, set the framework, talking about a “duty of memory and compassion” in front of his players as soon as they arrived in Clairefontaine on Monday. How to draw a common thread between those who will wear the blue jersey against Ukraine and their predecessors, who played football against the German selection ten years ago, to the day when a suicide bomber blew himself up from a hundred meters away,
