President Macron: “Mbappe made France proud despite World Cup loss”
Despite being dominated for most of the game, Mbappe completed a brace in only 97 seconds to bring France back to the game as well as sending the game to the extra time, where he once again had to answer Lionel Messi's goal to keep France in the competition.
Despite a stunning hat-trick from
Kylian Mbappe, Argentina won the 2022 World Cup trophy after winning in the penalty shoot-out. Mbappe became the second player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final after England's Geoff Hurst in 1966 as president Macron believes the PSG striker made his country,
Franceproud.
Emmanuel Macron told
RMC Sport:
"We were very far behind at the end of the first period. It's already happened, there have been comebacks like that, but it's very rare in the history of football.
"We came back tremendously. It's extraordinary what Mbappe did, but the whole team were hungry again. I believed in it immensely.
"Afterwards, we performed a second miracle by coming back from nowhere. We had match point.
"Mbappe is a very great player, but he is young, I told him he was only 23. He was top scorer at this World Cup. He won a World Cup [in 2018], he made a final.
"I was as sad as him. I said he made us very proud and in the end we lost a football match, we went to nothing. That's sport."
Aged 23 years and 363 days, Mbappe became the youngest player to reach double figures scoring a total of 12 World Cup goals.
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