Kylian Mbappé dismisses Real Madrid doctors and imposes the one from Morocco

The story is almost fictional, but it highlights a worrying failure within the White House. In early December, after feeling pain against Celta Vigo, the Madrid medical staff simply examined the wrong knee of their star striker. A stunning blunder confirmed by the sports daily L’Équipe, which specifies that Eduardo Camavinga had also undergone an MRI on the wrong leg a few days earlier.

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Wrongly reassured by these inappropriate images, the captain of the Blues gritted his teeth. Obsessed by Cristiano Ronaldo’s record of 59 goals in a calendar year, he chained the matches despite an obvious discomfort. Under the pressure of his coach Xabi Alonso to return prematurely in January, the Frenchman scored nine goals on one leg, before discovering the bitter truth: a real sprain in the left knee finally detected during a new examination.

Faced with the wanderings of a medical management in full loss of credibility - to the point that the club has to rely on the doctors of the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA for its protocols - the player cracked at the end of February. "I had a lot of frustration, anger and worry [...] because I didn’t know what I had," he said, relieved to have finally obtained a precise diagnosis in early March thanks to the external intervention of the French professor Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet.

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The breach of trust is now total. Eager to protect his future and not ruin his chances for the World Cup, the striker directly contacted his president, Florentino Pérez. His condition is clear: he dismisses the Madrid practitioners and imposes Christophe Baudot, the current doctor of the Moroccan national team he knew at PSG, to exclusively lead the rest of his convalescence.