The image is rare enough to be underlined. As Kylian Mbappé, a substitute at kick-off, was about to come into play in the 55th minute of the PSG meeting in Rennes on Sunday evening, a coach approached him to whisper in his ear. But it was not his coach Christophe Galtier, rather the Rennes technician Bruno Genesio who wanted to give him a few words of encouragement.
“I congratulated him for everything he does, everything he has done and everything he will do again, revealed the former Lyon coach to Prime’s microphone after his team’s deserved victory. on the Parisian leader (1-0). Apart from the very great player he is, he is also someone I appreciate. Because at his age, with everything he’s been through, he retains a humility, a simplicity…”
“It’s not the first time I’ve seen him, he continued, I had met him once at Clairefontaine. He had stopped to greet me. These are gestures that mean a lot about his personality and upbringing. »
After this brief exchange, Genesio must have appreciated the unusual miss of the PSG striker who, alone against the new international retiree Steve Mandanda, took too much of his strike which could have allowed the Parisians to equalize after the opener by Hamari Traore.