Schism in France! Mbappe backs Zidane in the face of Le Graet's harsh criticism

The French football, and especially his selection, has gone back to star a controversy. A day after the renewal of Didier Deschamps until 2026, the president of the French Federation of Football, Noël Him Graet, recognised in an interview with RMC Sport that "it gave him the same" if Zidane went to train to Brazil, in addition to inviting to the journalists to do "a special program to look for him a team" and ensure, in no uncertain terms, that "would not have taken him the telephone" in case that it had called him for the place of seleccionador.

This posture of Him Graet, in which it also ensured that never it gathered with Zidane, also did that the maximum current figure of the French football manifested . From his account of Twitter, Kylian Mbappé wrote that no "no can him be missing the respect like this to a legend", thinking besides that "Zidane is France", in a clear sample of support to the champion of the world like player in 1998.

Zidane c'est the France, on manque pas of respect à the légende comme ça… 🤦🏽‍♂️

— Kylian Mbappé (@KMbappe) January 8, 2023

The forward of the PSG always has showed to have the best possible relation with the now trainer, which outlined like the main candidate to direct to the instrument Frenchman in the case that Deschamps did not continue in the charge. However, from the Federation has showed a totally different posture and have tried to show that they were not interested in having Zidane.

It has not been the only

In addition to Mbappé, several players also have given his backrest and even the Real Madrid did an official communiqué in this regard. The white team commented from his web that "regrets the unlucky statements effected by the president of the French Federation of Football, Nöel Him Graet, on Zinedine Zidane, one of the biggest legends of the world-wide sport".

By his part, the minister of Sports of France, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, also published a tuit of support to Zidane and demanded to Him Graet that it apologise publicly by his criticisms to the exinternacional Frenchman. "Statements again with the plus added this time of a shameful lack of respect, that offends us to all, to a legend of the football and of the sport: a "president" of the first sportive federation of France would not have to say this", expressed Oudéa-Castéra.