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France’s captain has played with a sense of unfinished business but he will be 31 when the next World Cup begins

It was only last month that Kylian Mbappé suggested all roads may lead to Florida. He was in sufficiently mischievous mood to reveal David Beckham had been chewing his ear off about a move to Major League Soccer, dangling the prospect of a reunion with Lionel Messi at Inter Miami.

“We will see, I don’t know,” he said. “The American culture is different. There are no limits to ambitions, I like it.”