{"id":793560,"date":"2026-05-13T13:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:54:15","slug":"french-far-right-to-mbappe-shut-up-and-dribble-better-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/793560\/","title":{"rendered":"French far right to Mbapp\u00e9: Shut up and dribble \u2026 better \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \u201cI know what happens when Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 leaves PSG: the club wins the Champions League! (And maybe even a second time soon.)\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/J_Bardella\/status\/2054233854798409950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bardella wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe left PSG to join Real Madrid, saying it was to win the Champions League. In the meantime, PSG won it,\u201d Le Pen said in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLP_officiel\/status\/2054467607684620588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">French radio RTL<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Le Pen and Bardella\u2019s party has long had a contentious relationship with the country\u2019s popular national football team.<\/p>\n<p>Far-right leaders have provoked consternation in the past by criticizing the racial makeup of the team, insinuating they are less French. In 1996, National Rally founder Jean-Marie Le Pen said that \u201cit\u2019s artificial to bring in players from abroad and call them the French national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s current club team, Spanish giant Real Madrid, dominated the Champions League for most of the past decade but has suffered through two uninspired seasons since the Frenchman\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure is once again on the 27-year-old star as he captains the French team in this summer\u2019s FIFA World Cup, hosted by Canada, Mexico and the U.S., as Les Bleus are considered favorites. In his interview with Vanity Fair ahead of the tournament, Mbapp\u00e9 defended his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/mbappe-urges-france-to-vote-after-catastrophical-first-round-results\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous comments<\/a> urging people to \u201cvote against extremists that want to divide the country\u201d ahead of snap elections in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI know what happens when Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 leaves PSG: the club wins the Champions League! (And maybe even&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":793561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[90,8704,156,115830,8706,103195,2851,221,1926,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-793560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-far-right","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-french-election-2027","12":"tag-french-politics","13":"tag-jordan-bardella","14":"tag-marine-le-pen","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}