{"id":517990,"date":"2026-09-21T13:31:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=517990"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:31:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T17:31:02","slug":"mbappe-shares-his-excitement-to-play-under-zidane-in-france","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/mbappe-shares-his-excitement-to-play-under-zidane-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbappe shares his excitement to play under Zidane in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe has revealed how happy he is to reunite with Zinedine Zidane, describing the hiring of the new France national team coach as a cinematic moment. The two first met when Zinedine invited a young Kylian to trial at the Royal club over a decade ago, and they will now work together after Didier Deschamps&#8217; departure.<\/p>\n<p>The current French superstar shared about his history with Zidane: \u201cZinedine was the 1<sup>st<\/sup> person who picked me up to take me to Los Blancos, to the training ground. I was 13 or 14, so it happened a very long time ago. Now Zidane is my national team manager; it\u2019s like a film, but it feels phenomenal. It is reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mbappe added that Les Bleus will start a new chapter, and they have 2 years to prepare for the Euro 2028. Kylian added that the focus is now on the upcoming 4 matches in the Nations League and that, after these games, they will know more, as the players were used to Deschamps, but now things will be different; there is no doubt that it will go well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Playing Under New France Coach Zidane Is \u201cLike A Film\u201d \u2014Mbappe<\/p>\n<p>Kylian Mbappe said on Monday playing under new France coach Zinedine Zidane, 15 years after the French football icons first met, is like \u201csomething from a film\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Former Real Madrid boss Zidane will take charge of\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Channels Television (@channelstv) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/channelstv\/status\/2102080862141427972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">September 21, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe has revealed how happy he is to reunite with Zinedine Zidane, describing the hiring of the new France national team coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":517991,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17142,16906,17901],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17862,17949,17903],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Kylian reflected on the cinematic Zinedine reunion 15 years after the Los Blancos trial.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517992,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/517990\/revisions\/517992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517990"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=517990"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=517990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}