The French footballer gave an interview to L’Equipe and France Football after receiving the award for the best French player of the 2022/23 season

After receiving the award for the best French player of the 2022/2023 season awarded by L’Equipe and France Football, Mbappé gave an interview to these two media outlets (before all the controversy broke out) in which he analyzed his season, he explained. his feelings and showed his ambition to always win.

About his future, he said: “Reasons to believe that it is my last season in Ligue 1? It’s very simple, I’m a competitor, when I play, it’s to win. And it doesn’t matter who I play with, it doesn’t matter my shirt, it doesn’t matter where, no matter the year, I’m never satisfied with winning. I go on vacation, do a reset, recover energy and come back with the hunger that everyone knows”.

“I never settle, I just want to win, I will never be satisfied”

“I am always dissatisfied, so I am never impressed with what I do. It is already a first key to understand myself because everything I do, I tell myself that I can do it again and better. I have this hunger to win I don’t want to be in a team just to participate. That’s why sometimes people think I’m arrogant”, he said in ‘L’Equipe’ and continued: “I’m not afraid of failure either, it’s part of a footballer’s career. But I have the deep conviction that I was born to win and I want to show it to everyone.”

“I don’t know what PSG is missing to win the Champions League, it’s not a question for me” – Mbappé

Regarding his current team, PSG, and the desire, still unfulfilled, to win the Champions League, he commented: “I don’t know what PSG is missing to win the Champions League, it’s not a question for me. [.. .] You have to talk to the people who make the team, who organize the squad, who build this club. I just try to do my job as well as possible. […] I was best player, top scorer for the fifth consecutive year in Ligue 1”.

“I had outstanding performances, although I think I could still do better” – Mbappé

“Many things make me proud. First, having continued to win titles, which is what we play for. The title doesn’t matter, it’s the most difficult, that’s why all the players fight. And, of course, I’m delighted to have maintained my level personal, with a season around fifty goals”, he explains and continues: “I had outstanding moments, outstanding performances, although I think I could still do better”.

Ballon’ Dor

Mbappé considers that playing in Ligue 1, a championship that does not capture the interest of others such as perhaps the Premier League or LaLiga, does not help him in voting for the Ballon d’Or, but he hopes to win it one day.

“Do people trivialize my performances? Yes, but at the same time I don’t blame them. In France, people have seen me grow, they see me all the time, at PSG every weekend or with the national team. And I’ve been scoring for years lots of goals. So, for people, it’s becoming something normal. I’ve never complained that my performances are trivialized.”

“I myself trivialized what Messi did, what Cristiano Ronaldo did, what the great players did” – Mbappé

“I think playing for PSG doesn’t help much, because it’s a team that divides” – Mbappé

“I am young and I was lucky to be an observer, not long ago, before being an actor. And I myself trivialized what Messi did, what Cristiano Ronaldo did, what the great players did. We live in a consumer society, in the one that emphasizes ‘that’s good, but do it again’. And the fact of being here next door, in Paris… I think that playing for PSG does not help much, because it is a team that divides, a club that divides. So, of course, that attracts gossip, but I don’t care because I know what I’m doing and how I’m doing it.”