Solène Delinger 3:09 p.m., February 01, 2023

Sandrine Rousseau definitely has the gift of surprising her interlocutors.

While the pension reform is currently being examined by the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, the Green MP wondered about the future of… Kylian Mbappé! 

"Did Emmanuel Macron talk to him about his career when he was a senior?"

"What will Mbappé do after 50 years?" Asked Sandrine Rousseau, we could not be more serious.

"I don't know if Emmanuel Macron, when he was talking to Mbappé, told him about his career when he was a senior?", She added, referring to the behavior of the head of state. after the defeat of France in the final of the 2022 FIFA World Cup, in Qatar.

The president had long consoled Kylian Mbappé, who did not even seem to pay attention to him. 

"What will Mbappé do after 50 years? I don't know if Emmanuel Macron, when he was talking to Mbappé, told him about his career when he was a senior", launches @sandrousseau.

"The aging of athletes is a real subject."#Retraites#Mbappé#DirectANpic.twitter.com/l3X3QZJHEn

– LCP (@LCP) January 31, 2023

The retirement of athletes, a "real subject"

Sandrine Rousseau's remarks made some deputies laugh, including the president of the commission, Fadila Khattab.

The Green MP defended herself by explaining that the question of the retirement of athletes was perfectly legitimate.

"The career and aging of athletes, beyond the joke, is a real subject. How do we reintegrate bodies that are sometimes damaged and injured by intensive sports practice? What do we do with these senior athletes?" she hammered.

As our colleagues from RMC point out, the question of Sandrine Rousseau raises a real problem because the careers of athletes often end before 35 years of age.

This means that they have to retrain while most of them started the sport at a very young age.

The example of Kylian Mbappé, multi-millionaire PSG striker, was a "joke, a joke to wake up the right", justified Sandrine Rousseau this Wednesday morning on Europe 1. 

.

@sandrousseau reacts after the comments she made about Kilian Mbappé: "It was a joke, a joke to wake up the right" #Europe1pic.twitter.com/ywpciKsaKQ

– Europe 1 (@Europe1) February 1, 2023