The superstar the last Frenchman and player of Paris Saint-Germain to hire Covid-19.
Mbappé, 21, trained all smiles with France on Monday as he hugged his PSG teammate Presnel Kimpembe before playing the lark with Lille ace Jonathan Ikone.
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He also photographed stretching out in the middle of a peer organization.
And Mbappé has now left the French team with immediate effect, he will miss tomorrow’s League of Nations clash against Croatia.
Mbappé will now also be absent for the start of the PSG campaign in Ligue 1, in addition to clashes with Lens and Marseille.
Paul Pogba of Manchester United and Tanguy Ndombele of Tottenham were forced to withdraw from their overseas duties before Saturday’s 1-0 win over Sweden after positive for coronavirus.
And Mbappé joins his PSG teammates Neymar, Angel Di Maria, Mauro Icardi and Leandro Paredes on the bench after also signing Covid-19 following last month’s Champions League final defeat to Bayern Munich. .
Now he’ll self-insulate for a fortnight.
But the news will be a blow to French technician Didier Deschamps and PSG technician Thomas Tuchel.
In fact, Deschamps even replaced the lineup 3-4-1-2 against Sweden to take Mbappé to goal.
His absence may give Manchester United’s Anthony Martial a rare overseas debut.
Mbappé has scored 14 goals in 35 games with France, while scoring 90 impressive goals in just 3 years at PSG.
But after his Heartbreak in the Champions League against Bayern in August, Mbappé asked PSG to spend even more money to win Europe’s most sensible prize.
He told Telefoot: “I am sure we will win the Champions League.
“We have to do it because if we don’t, no one will do it for us.
“It’s football and you have to get over it. Many groups lost a final and won the following year.
“You have to recruit well, you have to buy players. I hope we have recruits and we restart to do better.
This article was first published on The Sun and reproduced with permission.
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