16 hours after clicking on “Send”, Kylian Mbappé has already seen his tweet be read nearly 67 million times. While Noël Le Graët has “nothing to shake” potential links between Zinedine Zidane and the Brazilian selection, the PSG striker quickly criticized the exit of the president of the FFF. “Zidane is France, we do not disrespect the legend like that…”, wrote the Bondynois on Twitter at 8 p.m., Sunday evening.
Since then, the post has been retweeted (re-shared) nearly 190,000 times and received 875,000 likes. If the message sent by the star of the Blues triggered a wave of protests against “NLG”, it has not yet reached the virality of the photo posted after the defeat of the Blues in the final of the World Cup. “We will come back,” wrote the French striker after the defeat against Argentina. This tweet had garnered 286,000 retweets and over 2 million likes.
On the other hand, his pro-Zidane post is already the second most viral on his Twitter account, in terms of “RT”. Written in English and seen in similar proportions, his tribute to Pelé had been re-shared 183,000 times and liked 2.3 million times.
The photo in which he kisses the 2018 World Cup was chased from the podium, proof of the importance taken by the reaction of the Parisian to the slippage of Le Graët. Last June, Mbappé had already corrected the president of the FFF, arguing that the 81-year-old Breton “considered that there had been no racism” after his missed shot on goal in the knockout stages of the Euro. This post had then been retweeted “only” 7,000 times.