Kylian Mbappé: the football player impresses Internet users with his level of Spanish, he explains why

On Tuesday, July 16, Kylian Mbappé was officially presented as a Real Madrid player in front of more than 80,000 fans. The French striker wowed the crowd and journalists with his mastery of the Spanish language before explaining it in a press conference.

It is a day that Real Madrid fans dreamed of for years. This Tuesday, the club from the Spanish capital met its new superstar. Two years after the departure of Karim Benzema and especially six years after that of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappé arrived as a savior within the “White House”. A few weeks after having made his transfer official following the end of his contract with Paris Saint-Germain and after a somewhat missed Euro with the Blues, the French striker was officially presented to the club’s supporters… who responded: they were more than 80,000 massed in the stands of Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid’s stadium. To the point of bringing tears to the eyes of Fayza Lamari, the player’s mother. Faced with Zinedine Zidane and the supporters, Kylian Mbappé notably impressed by his level of Spanish.

“I’m not afraid to make mistakes”

The Bondy native, who had already impressed in the past by speaking in English during interviews or press conferences, caused a sensation among Internet users by expressing himself in very correct Spanish.Kylian Mbappé’s Spanishin front of 80,000 people, that’s something” could be read in particular on X. The 2018 world champion also impressed the journalists, to the point that one of them asked him the question during the press conference that followed.

“I learned Spanish in middle schoolI wasn’t the best. But I knew that one day I wanted to play for Real Madrid so it was important to work on it.. He is not perfect, I can improve. I also had many Spanish coaches (Luis Enrique, Mauricio Pochettino). I spoke Spanish with them. I am not afraid to make mistakes, that is how you learn. I will be corrected, I will learn little by little.” he explained with humility. A player and a man who is decidedly apart, while some sometimes take years before mastering the language of the country where they are transferred…