«Parents who think they are stars»- Corriere.it

The news is going around the world that Fayza Lamari, the powerful mother of Kylian Mbapp, he asked the French footballers’ union for help after his beloved son, former world champion in Russia 2018, was sidelined by PSG.

In fact, the club did not call him up for the tour of Luis Enrique’s team in Japan and South Korea. The reason? The attacker has made it known that he does not want to renew the contract expiring on 30 June 2024 and leave on a free transfer. A sign of how parents today, just think of Rabiot’s mother or Lukaku’s, are too intrusive. And on the question intervened Zlatan Ibrahimovicfresh from retirement from football, who dealt with his problems personally or at most with Mino Raiola, a second father for him, his agent. Did he make the right choice? For who? For PSG maybe, not for him. He put himself in a position where he is bigger than the club. The club gave him the keys to everything. You are never bigger than your club. When a child gets strong, he produces income and parents become lawyers, agents and coaches. That’s the problem, explained the former AC Milan striker. And again: When all this happens you lose control and your identity. With these new generations parents think they have become starthey also speak in the newspapers, but who do they think they are?.

Mbapp’s mother, considered the most powerful woman in the world of football, does not accept the exclusion of his son, who remained to train in Paris with the other excluded ones. And the long list: Wijnaldum, Diallo, Paredes, Draxler, Michut, Vimoj Muntu Wa Mungu, Fernandez-Veliz, Gassama and Bodiang. In short, a humiliation. Which for Ibrahimovic does not justify the decisive intervention of the mother.