'The Maestro': Kylian Mbappe Wants It All
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After a summer where he was expected to commit his future to Real Madrid, 23-year-old French superstar Kylian Mbappe instead decided to stay put in Paris, with PSG. And he's off to a red hot start to the new season. The New York Times’ Tariq Panja recently got a rare interview with Mbappe, and he joins us today to discuss the Frenchman’s years as a teenage prodigy, why he decided to stay in Paris (at least for now), and why he wants his legacy to be about more than soccer.
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| 0:41.0 | The group stage of the Champions League kicked off last week. |
| 0:44.0 | And one of the biggest stories through the first two rounds has been the performance of French superstar, |
| 0:49.0 | Killian Mbappe. |
| 1:05.0 | During a summer where he was expected to commit his future to Spanish-Chinese Real Madrid, |
| 1:09.0 | the 23-year-old instead decided to say put with Paris Saint-Germain and is off to a red hot start. |
| 1:26.0 | New York Times, Tariq Pangea recently got a rare interview with Embabe, |
| 1:30.0 | and he joined us today to discuss the Frenchman's years as a teenage prodigy, |
| 1:35.0 | why he decided to stay in France at least for now, and why his legacy means so much to him. |
| 1:41.0 | From Wondry, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:44.0 | It's Friday, September 16th, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:50.0 | Tariq Pangea, welcome back to The Lead. |
| 1:52.0 | Good to meet you. |
| 1:53.0 | If we're back. |
| 1:54.0 | You know, in the past, Tariq, we've had you on to talk. |
| 1:56.0 | I believe about the Russian doping scandal, the Olympics, Ukrainian and soccer team after Russia's invasion. |
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