From difficult beginnings to records in a Real Madrid with many shortcomings
A procession, wishes of humility then baptism. At the heart of July 2024, Kylian Mbappé was inducted player from Real Madrid. The staging is overwhelming: after walking a blue carpet acclaimed by 80,000 Madridistas gathered at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium, the 26 -year -old joins a platform where Florentino Perez, club president who forged the XXI of the XXI await hime century, Pirri and its 561 games under the white tunic as well as Zinedine Zidane. For only ornament, what Real can do best: its fifteen trophies in the Champions League.
Almost a year later, Kylian Mbappé completed his first season in the Merengue jersey, this ” dream “ mentioned eight times during its presentation. A season completed without trophies, if not a title of top scorer in the Spanish championship, for the one who was fixed “To be up to the history of this club, the best in the world”. A year in four movements for the one whose trajectory has finally joined the Madrid club – like its idol Cristiano Ronaldo – after several failed union attempts.
The storytelling of his arrival in the summer of 2024 does not erase neither doubts nor the immense expectation, in a club where the requirement is permanent and the patience absent. If Kylian Mbappé comes out of a season at 44 goals with Paris Saint-Germain, his incorporation into Real Madrid is not self-evident. The Spanish capital team has accomplished the double Liga-Ligue of the Champions without him, but with Vinicius Junior-with a similar and then favorite profile of the Ballon d’Or-or the Jude Bellingham midfielder. And before him, Zinedine Zidane had taken several months to find his place in the “galactics”; As for Karim Benzema, who arrived from Lyon at the age of 21, he took three years to win.
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