Just before the World Cup: “Mbappe prefers his girlfriend over the national team”

The French national team arrived in the United States this week in preparation for the opening of the 2026 World Cup, which will begin today (Thursday). But less than five days before the team’s opening match against Senegal, the captain, Kylian Mbappe is having trouble. The star left the national team camp and returned to Madrid due to “personal matters”, but his pictures revealed something completely different.

Mbappe was recorded in Madrid spending time with his partner, the Spanish actress, Esther Exposito. The French media condemned the striker’s behavior and wrote: “Instead of preparing for the World Cup, Mbappe prefers spending time with his girlfriend instead of being with the national team. It is impossible for the captain not to put the national team first.” Even on social networks, fans came out against him and claimed that the star preferred his personal life over being with the national team a few days before the start of the tournament.

Rumors about a relationship between the national team captain and the actress began about three months ago until last April the two came out of the marital closet when Exposito uploaded a post full of photos to her Instagram account – in one of which the striker, for the first time on her page, is seen standing behind a curtain, holding a lit lighter in one hand. With the other hand, as we will see, he pretends to have a cigarette in his mouth – and since then they have been close.