2023-08-02 10:32:13
“We are here at Education City Stadium. 40,000 people can come. France-Tunisia… I hope we will win. And then we will play against Morocco. And… I will have to destroy my friend. At this moment in the video shot last May, during PSG’s mini-internship in Qatar, Kylian Mbappé is interrupted by his friend Achraf Hakimi who stands in front of the camera to slip into a knowing smile: “I’m going to smash it” .
That day, despite his effort to anticipate, the Blues striker probably did not imagine that the facts would prove him right and that France and Morocco would actually meet during this World Cup and even less in semi-final, as will be the case on Wednesday evening (8 p.m.).
After a burst of laughter, Kylian Mbappé resumed his roomy speech to his Parisian accomplice. “It will break my heart a bit, he added, but you know, football is football… I have to destroy it! »
Since this sequence and especially the start of the World Cup, the two players have not stopped exchanging not only from a distance but also during a meeting last week when Mbappé went to visit Hakimi.
Hakimi’s Penguin dance, after his shot on goal in the round of 16 to eliminate Spain, further underlined their friendship and their messages sent from a distance.
Under these conditions, it is not surprising that Achraf Hakimi, after the qualification of Morocco against Portugal (1-0), this Saturday, did not wait long after the victory of the Blues against England (2 -1) to make an appointment with Mbappé. “See you soon my friend” he tweeted with a heart. Mbappé answered him with three hearts. But Wednesday evening, for ninety minutes or a little more, these two will not give each other gifts.
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