{"id":2150,"date":"2026-09-18T14:20:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:20:48","slug":"to-be-part-of-history-you-have-to-play-for-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/to-be-part-of-history-you-have-to-play-for-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;To be part of history, you have to play for Madrid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-26-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kylian Mbappe has set his sights firmly on greatness at Real Madrid, opening up on life inside the dressing room, what it takes to become a legend, and his bond with the fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Spanish daily &#8216;AS&#8217;, excerpts of which had previously surfaced, Kylian Mbappe left no doubt about his soaring ambitions: &#8220;If you want to be part of football history, one day you have to play for Real Madrid,&#8221; he asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I expected the best club in the world to receive a lot of warmth and feel the passion of Madridismo right across the globe. When you are a Real Madrid player, you step onto another tier, up to a whole new level,&#8221; stressed the forward, who harboured dreams of donning the famous white shirt from a young age: &#8220;Everyone close to me knew that, at some point, I would want to go to Madrid. There wasn&#8217;t the slightest doubt that I wanted to come,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing his departure from the French capital, he added: &#8220;The final year at PSG was tough. And not everything is known. It is part of my life&#8217;s journey. I don&#8217;t think that, two years on, I should criticise anyone. It was 100% difficult, but it belongs in the past and was just another step I had to take to achieve my dream,&#8221; he concluded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kylian Mbappe has set his sights firmly on greatness at Real Madrid, opening up on life inside the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}