{"id":151484,"date":"2025-09-12T12:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151484\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:59:08","slug":"i-want-my-son-to-hate-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151484\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I want my son to hate football’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Real <\/a>Real Madrid forward, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9<\/p>\n

Captain of the French national team, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 has revealed that his passion is the only reason why he is still playing football at the professional level.<\/p>\n

According to the Real Madrid forward, he would even want his son to hate football, citing the excessive mental pressure the sport demands.<\/p>\n

Mbapp\u00e9 made this statement in an interview with French newspaper L\u2019\u00c9quipe, when asked if he would like to see his children play football at the highest level. <\/p>\n

“I hope to have a son who detests football. The more money you have, the more problems you face. If I didn’t have the passion, football would have burned me out long time ago,” he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Mbappe openly discussed mental health in elite sport, describing how athletes are reluctant to show vulnerability.<\/p>\n

Nicki Nicole: Meet the 25-year-old rapper dating Lamine Yamal<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe complexity of the thing is that people have trouble with it. You must not show it. Someone in his living room would say, ‘F*ck, at the price they’re paying you, I’d be happy every day!’ <\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s why sometimes it’s better to keep it to yourself. If I win the World Cup, you come to me three days later and ask me about it, I can say it. You’re practically untouchable there. You lose a match, you say that, they tell you that you’re saying that because you were terrible. It doesn’t change anything if I was already like that before the match… It’s all a question of timing.”<\/p>\n

JE<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, watch the post-match conferences of Otto Addo, Tom Saintfiet and highlights of Ghana vs Mali game<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Real Madrid forward, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 Captain of the French national team, Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 has revealed that his passion…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-151484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}