The French superstar striker entered the 2026 World Cup with his team as clear favorites to win the tournament, only to come up well short, losing 2-0 to Spain in the semifinals.Then, on Monday night, he lost the Ballon d'Or, the award given out to the best player in international soccer, to Harry Kane.This page may contain affiliate links to legal sports betting partners.
If you sign up or place a wager, FOX News may be compensated.This content was created by a team that works independently from the FOX newsroom.Though Mbappé was brilliant in the "El Classico" against Barcelona, scoring a brace in the rivalry match, through the first 10 matches of the La Liga season, Real Madrid's goal differential of +15 pales in comparison to Barca's +29.
He also refused to fully wear a shirt worn by the rest of his teammates, to reaffirm Cueta's status as a part of Spain after an unprecedented surge of illegal immigration from Morocco.KYLIAN MBAPPE PREDICTABLY BENDS THE KNEE AFTER LOSING CHINESE SPONSORS FOR LAUGHING AT MEME OF DICTATOR MAOFrance's Kylian Mbappé looks dejected after the match as France are eliminated from the World Cup in Arlington, Texas.(Jerome Miron/Imagn Images)But on Tuesday, his season somehow got even worse.Mbappé bent the knee to China and the Chinese Communist Party, after an appearance on "The Bridge," a French talk show hosted by a teammate, Aurelien Tchouameni.
His big offense? Laughing at a meme.The one "that makes me laugh the most," he said, is "the one where there's a video of a guy, I think it's a Chinese dictator, they put my [face over it].The show then cut to an example of the meme, his face covering an image of what looks to be Mao Zedong.Mao was, by any reasonable definition, a dictator.
And a brutal, malicious, and violent one.Most historians blame Mao's policies for tens of millions of deaths through famine and politically motivated persecution.
It's not a stretch to describe him as evil, and one of history's greatest villains.But...