Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Kylian Mbappe, the French national team player, was keen to support and console Ashraf Hakimi, the Moroccan national team player, following defeating the “Atlas Lions” from the “Roosters” with a double, in the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. , Wednesday.
The French striker published, on his Twitter account, a picture of him and the Moroccan full-back from the match, and commented: “Do not be sad, my brother. Everyone is proud of what you did. You made history.”
Video footage showed Mbappe and Hakimi exchanging shirts between them following the end of the confrontation, and they were keen to sit and talk together in the corridor of Al-Bayt Stadium.
The two players have a strong relationship, as they play together in the French club Paris Saint-Germain.
Ashraf Hakimi was born in 1998 in the Spanish capital, Madrid, while Kylian Mbappe was born only 46 days later in the French capital, Paris, in the same year that the French national team won the first world title in its history, and the closeness in age and similarity of interests were important factors in forming a friendship. between them.