French national team striker Kilian Mbappe shared his thoughts ahead of his team's start at the 2026 World Championships. The forward noted that the march to victory at the World Cup is not about mastery, but the willingness to endure difficult challenges both on the field and beyond.

“At two championships in the world, in which I took part, there were moments when I felt out of place from the point of view of social life, since I was isolated for 60 days. Ale yakbi it was easy, we would have played at the world championship. We know that being part of a minority is a status that we are not guilty of forgetting. We can take it in good times and in bad times.

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The Frenchman is also confident that to achieve a historic result the team must be ready to try and not lose motivation.

" We earned money once, if we won the 2018 Emergency and were close to the point of earning money again in 2022, we know how to work. Any team that will go to the tournament will go down in history, and they will not be guilty of being hungry for us,” said Mbappe.

It seems that France has chosen to compete in Group I, where the teams of Senegal, Norway and Iraq will become their opponents.