[sport] FRANCE TEAM: MBAPPÉ IS NOT IN "REBELLION" AGAINST THE FFF BUT WANTS "TO MOVE THE LINES"

[Wassim MH]

 

In a press release sent to AFP on Wednesday, representatives of Kylian Mbappé explain themselves after the choice of the player to have shunned the marketing and sponsorship operations of the France team on Tuesday. The PSG striker intends to "move the lines".
Faithful to his convictions. Kylian Mbappé refused to participate in an operation on Tuesday with the partners of the French Football Federation to protest against the collective management of image rights among the Blues, according to his representatives for whom this incident is "in no way a rebellion ". They spoke to AFP.
The 23-year-old striker skipped a scheduled meeting at Clairefontaine with several sponsors of the French team (Volkswagen, Uber Eats, Orange, Xbox, Coca-Cola, Konami), revealing a persistent subject of contention. for many months.
The entourage of the 2018 world champion disputes the agreement relating to the transfer of the collective right to the image that each international signs, before his first selection, and which contains in particular obligations vis-à-vis the partners of the FFF. In exchange for this commitment, each player receives 25,000 euros per match played.
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Mbappé wants to "move the lines"
Mbappé signed it in 2017 but "this agreement has never been renegotiated since and is deemed valid for each player until the end of his career in the France team", explain his representatives in a press release sent to AFP . The latter claim to have exchanged with the FFF "several times, for more than three years" on this subject, convinced that "the conditions of this agreement no longer make it possible to develop the image of football in respect of the values that can carry the institution, but also those specific to each player on the team".
Mbappé's absence from Tuesday's session at Clairefontaine "is in no way a 'rebellion', it had no other objective than to reaffirm its expectations and move the lines", continues the press release. "This episode in no way calls into question the involvement of Kylian Mbappé, his attachment to the France team, and must serve for the necessary dialogue around these subjects", insist his representatives, affirming that, since his very first selection in March 2017, the attacker "wanted to donate his bonuses to charities".