A French Soccer Star Faces Off Against a Surging Foe: The Far Right

Kylian Mbappé, the captain of France’s national team, set off a storm a month before the World Cup by suggesting that the National Rally party was a threat to France.“I know what it means, and what kind of consequences it can have for my country when those kinds of people take control,” Kylian Mbappé said of the French far-right in a magazine interview.