PSG star Kylian Mbappe is aiming for the 2024 Olympics: “a childhood dream”
The Olympic Games will take place in Paris in the summer of 2024. PSG superstar Kylian Mbappe would then like to play for France.
Paris Saint-Germain star forward Kylian Mbappe would like to play for France at the Paris Olympics in 2024.
He has “a strong inner feeling about this,” said Mbappe, who was born in Paris L’Equipe: “As if I were destined to take part in this big festival in my city, in my country a hundred years after the last competition in France (1924 Summer Games in Paris, ed.). It’s a childhood dream.”
Kylian Mbappe would be one of three allowed over 23 players at the 2024 Olympics
Mbappe, who would have liked to have attended the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, would be 25 years old at the time of the upcoming games in Paris and would therefore have to be one of three permitted players older than 23.
The French international said: “It’s not the biggest competition in football, but you must have played games like this in your career. (…) When I saw the Olympic Games in London in 2012, I realized the importance of this global competition . The games are THE benchmark for sport, the absolute grail by which all athletes worldwide measure themselves and want to experience at least once in their lives. “