'He lacks humility' - France World Cup star hits out at Kylian Mbappe

Former France international, Bixente Lizarazu, has criticised Real Madrid guardant Kylian Mbappe implicit his behaviour successful the build-up to the 2026 Ballon d'Or ceremony, accusing the Frenchman of lacking humility.

Mbappe finished 2nd successful the voting down Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane, who claimed the prestigious award.

Speaking connected TF1's Téléfoot connected Sunday, the 1998 World Cup victor expressed his disappointment with Mbappe's cognition earlier the ceremony, describing his attack arsenic overly focused connected himself.

Lizarazu accused the 27-year-old of excessive self-promotion and failing to admit the contributions of different players.

He said, “He went disconnected the rails connected the Ballon d'Or sequence. I didn't similar it astatine all. He went into thing hyper-individualistic, a deficiency of humility, self-promotion, a spot of forgetting the others. You had the content determination was lone him and the others didn't exist.”

Lizarazu's disapproval followed a bid of interviews Mbappe granted earlier the Ballon d'Or voting deadline successful London connected October 26.

During 1 of the interviews with France Football, the Real Madrid guardant admitted that helium would ballot for himself, insisting that helium believed helium had a beardown accidental of winning the award.

Mbappe besides responded with “me, always” erstwhile asked who helium considered the champion footballer successful the world.

However, Kane yet emerged arsenic the victor with 1...